SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       965

GOING, OFFER SATISFACTORY PROOF OF HAVING COM-
PLETED A ONE YEAR INTERNSHIP IN AN INTERN TRAIN-
ING PROGRAM APPROVED BY EITHER THE AMERICAN
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION COUNCIL ON MEDICAL EDUCA-
TION OR SUCH OTHER AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON ACCREDITING AS AN AGENCY
FOR THE APPROVAL OF INTERN TRAINING PROGRAMS.
The Board, if satisfied with the application filed, shall direct the
secretary-treasurer to issue to said applicant an order for exami-
nation, and when said applicant shall have passed an examination
as to proficiency satisfactory to said Board the president thereof
shall grant to such applicant a license to practice medicine and
surgery in the State of Maryland. If the Board of Medical Exam-
iners shall have refused any application, either for want of the quali-
fications necessary to entitle such applicant to an examination, as
hereinbefore provided, or for want of proficiency of such applicant
upon being subject to an examination, then the Board shall not
entertain or pass upon a subsequent application from said applicant
until after the expiration of six months from the rejection of said
previous application. The Board is authorized to license without
examination applicants who present proper certificates of profi-
ciency and professional standing at the time of application issued by
the National Board of Medical Examiners or the National Board of
Examiners for Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons or boards of
medical examiners of the District of Columbia and of other states,
the requirements of which are as high a standard as those govern-
ing the Board of Medical Examiners of this State; provided such
boards of such states or district grant the same privileges to li-
centiates of the Examining Board of Maryland; such applicants,
however, from the National [Board] Boards and the District of
Columbia and other states still being required to furnish the same
proof of qualifications required of other applicants by this section.
The Board may, in its discretion, grant a license upon a special
examination to a physician or surgeon from another state, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, or a foreign country, provided the applicant has
met all the preliminary and professional qualifications required for
obtaining a license by examination in this State, has been in repu-
table practice for a period of ten years, and has reached a position
of conceded eminence and authority in his profession. Medical or
osteopathic students, at the end of their second year of study, who
have, as verified by the certificate of the dean of the college which
they have attended, completed the studies of anatomy, physiology,
bacteriology and medical chemistry in said college, shall on suitable
application approved by the Board be examined in such studies by
the State Licensing Board, the result of said examination to be
considered as a 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 or osteopathic students who have, as verified by the certifi-
cate 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 suitable application approved
by the Board be examined in all the branches enumerated in Section
123 of this article by the [State Licensing] Board, the final cer-
tificate and license of the said Board being withheld until the diploma
of the proper medical or osteopathic college, with the candidate's
name inscribed, be presented to the secretary of the Board.