52 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 59

been made, if satisfied with the same, shall direct the secretary-
treasurer thereof to issue to said applicant an order for ex-
amination, and when said applicant shall have passed an ex-
amination as to proficiency satisfactory to said board the presi-
dent thereof shall grant to such applicant a license to practice
medicine and surgery in the State of Maryland. If the presi-
dent of either board of medical examiners shall have refused
any application, either for want of the qualifications necessary
to entitle such applicant to an examination, as hereinbefore
provided, or for want of proficiency of such applicant upon
being subjected to an examination, then the president of
neither of said boards shall entertain or pass upon a subse-
quent application from said applicant until after the expira-
tion of six months from the rejection of said previous applica-
tion. The respective boards are authorized to license without
examination applicants who present proper certificates of
proficiency and professional standing at the time of applica-
tion issued by the National Board of Medical Examiners or
boards of medical examiners of the District of Columbia and
of other States, the requirements of which are of as high a
standard as those governing the boards of medical examiners
of this State; provided such boards of such States or District
grant the same privileges to licentiates of the examining boards
of Maryland; such applicants, however, being still required
to furnish the same proof of qualifications required of other
applicants by this section. Medical students, at the end of
their second year of study, who have, as verified by the certifi-
cate of the dean of the college which they have attended, com-
pleted the studies of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry
and materia medica in said college, shall on application be
examined in such studies by the State licensing board, the
result of said examination to be considered as part of the final
examination, the full regular fee to be paid at this time, no
part thereof to be returned, but placed to their credit for the
remainder of the examination yet to be taken. Medical stu-
dents who have, as verified by the certificate of the dean of
the college which they have attended, completed a full four
years' course of studies and lectures, but who have not yet
received their diplomas, shall upon application be examined
in all the branches enumerated in Section 120 of this Article
by the State licensing board, the final certificate and license
of the said board being withheld until the diploma of the
proper medical college, with the candidate's name inscribed,
be produced to the secretary of the board. Diplomas presented
by graduates of foreign colleges may be accepted if the stand-
ards of such foreign colleges were, when such diploma was
issued, equivalent to the standard defined by the Association