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§ 1312. MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Tit. VI, Ch. 6.
13 or midwives who have obtained from the board of examiners a cer-
14 tificate permitting them to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics
15 without a diploma from a medical school or examination by the board,
16 nor to physicians, as defined herein, who have been in practice in this
17 state for five consecutive years, three years of which time shall have
18 been in one locality, nor to filling prescriptions by a registered pharma-
19 cist, nor to the advertising and sale of patent or proprietary medicines.
[C, '97, § 2579 ; 39 G. A., ch. 243, § 1.]
SEC. 1312. Examination—registration—fee^-temporary permits.
1 All persons beginning the practice of medicine in the state of
2 Iowa must submit to an examination as set forth in this chapter, and,
3 in addition thereto, shall present diplomas from medical colleges rec-
4 ognized as in good standing by the state board of medical examiners,
5 and all persons receiving their diplomas subsequent to January first,
6 eighteen hundred ninety-nine, shall present evidence of having
7 attended four full courses of study of not less than twenty-six weeks
8 each, no two of which shall have been given in any one year. The
9 state board of medical examiners shall examine the graduates of the
10 medical departments of the state university of Iowa and of such other
11 medical colleges in this state as are recognized by said board of med-
12 ical examiners as being in good and legal standing at the annual
13 medical commencement and at the location of said state university
14 and other medical colleges respectively:
15 1. A certificate of registration showing that an examination has
16 been made by the proper board of any state, or national board of med-
17 ical examiners of Washington, D. C, on which an average grade of
18 not less than seventy-five per cent was awarded, the holder thereof
19 having been at the time of said examination the legal possessor of a
20 diploma from a medical college in good standing in this state, may
21 be accepted in lieu of an examination, as evidence of qualification.
22 But in case the scope of said examination was less than that prescribed
23 by this state, the applicant may be required to submit to a supple-
24 mental examination in such subjects as have not been covered.
25 2. A certificate of registration or license, issued by the proper
26 board of any state, may be accepted as evidence of qualification for
27 registration in this state, provided the holder thereof was, at the time
28 of such registration, the legal possessor of a diploma issued by a med-
29 ical college in good standing in this state, and that the date thereof
30 was prior to the legal requirement of the examination test in this
31 state. The fee for such examination shall be fifty dollars.
32 3. Applicants for registration under the provisions of clauses one
33 and two of this section shall make proper application upon forms fur-
34 nished by the board and file same together with the registration fee,
35 with the secretary of said board. If the credentials of the applicant
36 are complete and regular, the secretary shall issue a temporary per-
37 mit authorizing the said applicant to practice in Iowa during the period
38 intervening between the date of filing his application and the date
39 ' upon which the board authorizes or refuses the issuance of a perma-
40 nent certificate, but not more than one such permit shall be issued to
41 the same applicant. The temporary permits herein provided for shall
42 apply only to applicants for a certificate under reciprocal agreements
43 with other states.
[C, '97, § 2582 ; S., '13, § 2582 ; 39 G. A., ch. 136, § 1.]