                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEDICAL STUDENTS IN HOSPITALS (§ 54.1-2960)

Subject to such restrictions as the Board, in consultation 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
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.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 568, § 54-276.7:1; 1988, c. 765.