Reciprocity in medical licensure / by Albert Vander Veer.

  • Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Reciprocity in medical licensure / by Albert Vander Veer. 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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    preliminary qualifications is the count which is of universal use in New York State and is in accord with the academic syllabus for secondary schools. The recognized medical schools registered as main- taining the required standards are those of the States in which the applicant seeks endorsement. The standard of registration of the Board of Re- gents of the University of the State of New York and their list of registered medical schools in group i are adopted, each State reserving the right of sub- mitting evidence with reference to any institution, either for removing it from or for placing it on the approved list. Full faith and credit are given by the board of each State to the examinations held by the boards of the other States. The applications for license under this agreement must be endorsed in the rep- resentative States by the president and secretary of the board of examiners and by the commissioner of education. The agreement has been signed ov the representatives of the State boards and the edu- cation departments, and remains in force until re- scinded by formal action. From the report of an American Consul in Aus- tria, Hugo Donzelmann, Prague, March, 1898, the following statement of the principles of the first laws promulgated in Europe with reference to the practice of medicine and pharmacy is condensed. Their principle is still apparent in all later laws, namely, the public good, and this principle is the underlying principle in the growth of laws affecting admission to the practice of the learned professions in the United States. The first decree of Frederick II., in 1224, can be said to have been the fundamental constitution of all existing laws in Europe, the same having been amended and improved upon from time to time, but always bearing in mind that the practice of medicine and pharmacy was to be under the special care and supervision of the government in order to protect its people against imposition. In that year he es- tablished by a decree the first college for the educa-