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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59996</law_id><section_number>54.1-2934</section_number><catch_line>Evidence of right to practice required of certain foreign graduates</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Licensure of Physicians of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, Chiropractors, and Podiatrists</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every candidate who is a graduate of a school of a country other than the United States and Canada must, in addition to meeting the other requirements of this article, exhibit to the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> a diploma, license or certificate conferring the full right to practice in that country, or satisfactory <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> showing that the candidate has completed the course of study and passed examinations equivalent to those required for a diploma or license conferring such full right to practice.</p></section></text><history>1954, c. 626, &#xA7; 54-306.2; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
