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This law was first created in 1977. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 568 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1977 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1988, chapter 765.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":242451,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64582,"identifier":"54.1-2960","token":"54.1\/III\/29\/5\/54.1-2960","url":"\/54.1-2960\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-2960\/","token":"54.1\/III\/29\/5\/54.1-2960","dublin_core":{"Title":"Medical students in hospitals","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-2960","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Subject to such restrictions as the Board<\/span>, in consultation<\/span> with the deans of the medical schools of this Commonwealth, may prescribe by regulation, third and fourth year medical students engaged in a course of study approved by the Board<\/span> may be employed by legally established and licensed hospitals to prepare medical history information and perform physical examinations where such practice is confined strictly to persons who are bona fide patients within the hospital or who receive treatment and advice in an outpatient department of the hospital. Such students shall be responsible and accountable at all times to a licensed physician member of the hospital staff. This section shall not have the effect of removing the responsibility of the attending physician to assure that a licensed physician shall do a history and physical examination on each hospitalized patient.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMEDICAL STUDENTS IN HOSPITALS (\u00a7 54.1-2960)\n\nSubject to such restrictions as the Board, in consultation with the deans of the\nmedical schools of this Commonwealth, may prescribe by regulation, third and\nfourth year medical students engaged in a course of study approved by the Board\nmay be employed by legally established and licensed hospitals to prepare medical\nhistory information and perform physical examinations where such practice is\nconfined strictly to persons who are bona fide patients within the hospital or\nwho receive treatment and advice in an outpatient department of the hospital.\nSuch students shall be responsible and accountable at all times to a licensed\nphysician member of the hospital staff. This section shall not have the effect\nof removing the responsibility of the attending physician to assure that a\nlicensed physician shall do a history and physical examination on each\nhospitalized patient.\n\nHISTORY: 1977, c. 568, \u00a7 54-276.7:1; 1988, c. 765.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}