TY  - JOUR
T1  - BOards of examiners in the basic sciences
Y1  - 1969/06/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160110073016
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2101
EP  - 2104
VL  - 208
IS  - 11
N2  - Twenty states and the District of Columbia have basic-science requirements as a prerequisite for licensure. In Florida, revocation becomes effective July 1969 only after the legislature takes final action. In New Mexico, Kansas, and Arizona revocation is immediately effective. Two states, Connecticut and Oklahoma, have relaxed their basic-science requirements for physicians seeking licensure by endorsement.The law in most of these states applies to any person practicing the healing arts or any branch thereof, whereas the law in a few states indicates that it specifically applies to those persons planning to engage in the practice of medicine, osteopathy, and chiropractic; still others include the practice of naturopathy, chiropody, and dentistry.A basic-science law provides for the establishment of a board of medical examiners and requires that each person to whom the law applies appear before the board of examiners in the basic sciences and demonstrate his knowledge of the basic
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160110073016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160110073016
ER  -