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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82580</law_id><section_number>54.1-2937</section_number><catch_line>Temporary licenses to interns and residents in hospitals and other organizations</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>54.1-2910.1</reference></referred_to_by><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>Upon recommendation by the chief of an approved internship or residency program as defined in this chapter, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a temporary annual license to practice medicine, osteopathic medicine, or podiatry to interns and residents in such programs. No such license shall be issued to an intern or resident who has not completed successfully the preliminary academic education required for admission to examinations given by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> in his particular field of practice. Such license shall expire upon the holder&#x2019;s withdrawal or termination from the internship or residency program. The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may prescribe such regulations not in conflict with existing <span class="dictionary">law</span> and require such reports from hospitals or other organizations operating an approved graduate medical education program in the Commonwealth as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.</p></section></text><history>1986, c. 307, &#xA7; 54-311.3; 1987, c. 44; 1988, c. 765; 2015, c. 525.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
