Each applicant for a license to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery shall:
1. Either comply with all of the following:
a. Present a diploma issued, after May 10, 1963, by a college of osteopathic medicine and surgery approved by the medical examiners or present other evidence of equivalent medical education approved by the medical examiners.
b. Pass an examination prescribed by the medical examiners in subjects including anatomy, chemistry, physiology, materia medica and therapeutics, obstetrics, pathology, medicine, public health and hygiene and surgery. The board of medical examiners may require written, oral and practical examinations of the applicant.
c. Present to the Iowa department of public health satisfactory evidence that the applicant has completed one year of internship or resident training in a hospital approved for such training by the medical examiners.
2. Or comply with the following:
a. Present a valid license to practice osteopathy in this state together with satisfactory evidence that the applicant has completed either: (1) a two-year postgraduate course, of nine months each, in an accredited college of osteopathy, osteopathic medicine and surgery or medicine approved by the board of medical examiners of Iowa, involving a thorough and intensive study of the subject of surgery as prescribed by such medical examiners, or (2) a one-year postgraduate course of nine months in such accredited college, and in addition thereto, has completed a one-year course of training as a surgical assistant in a hospital having at least twenty-five beds for patients and equipped for doing surgical work.
b. Pass an examination as prescribed by the medical examiners in the subject of surgery, which shall be of such character as to thoroughly test the qualifications of the applicant as a practitioner of major surgery.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 150A.3]
Referred to in § 147.49, 150A.7
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