The Medical Act : being statutes of the Province of Nova Scotia, to regulate the qualifications of practitioners in medicine and surgery.

  • Nova Scotia.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The Medical Act : being statutes of the Province of Nova Scotia, to regulate the qualifications of practitioners in medicine and surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Qualifications lor matricu- lation. exam- ination. Practitioners’ name must be entered in Eejtistry Book wicl licensa ^■ooiM'ed. Qualification for person betore lie can register his name and procure license to practice. matriculation or preliminary examination in the subjects specified in Schedule B to this chapter. 7. No candidate shall be admitted to such matricula- tion or preliminaiy examination unless he shall have at least fourteen da^'s previous to such examination given notice to the Kegistrar of the Board of his intention to present himself for such examination, and transmitted to the Registrar a certificate showing that he has completed his sixteenth j'^ear ; and shall before the examination have jiaid a fee of ten dollars to the Registrar. 8. Subject to the exceptions hereinafter made no person shall practise physic, surgery, or midwifery in Nova Scotia, unless his name shall lie registered in the book of I’egistry of the Provincial Medical Board, and unless he shall have received from such Board a license to practise. 9. No person shall be entitled to have his name entered on the register of the Provincial Medical Board, or to receive a license to practise from such Board, unless* he shall satisfy the Board that he has passed the matricu- lation or preliminary examination ; that after passing such examination he has followed his studies during a period of not less than four years (one of which maj' be under the direction of one or more general practitioners duly licensed) ; that during such four years he has attended at some Univerisity, College, or Incorporated School of Medicine in good standing courses of lectures, amounting together to not less than twelve months, on general Anatomy, on practical Anatomy, on Surgery, on the Practice of Medicine, on Midwifery, on Chemistry, on Materia Medica and Pharmacy, and on the Institutes of Medicine or Physiology, and one three months’ course of Medical Jurisprudence ; that he has attended the general practice of an Hospital, in which there are contained not less than fifty beds under the charge of not less than two Physicians or Surgeons, for a period not less than one year, or two periods of not less than six months each; that he has also attended two three months’ courses, or one six months’course, of Clinical Medicine, and the same of Clinical Surgery ; that he has, after examination in the subjects of the course, obtained a degree or diploma frojii such University, College, or Incorporated Medical School; for want of such degree or diploma, that ho has satis-