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 1332 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Ca. 352. 1929. Nature and extent o f SEC. 19. The commission shall by rule prescribe the nature and examination to be pre- scribed. extent of the examinations to be conducted by each of the examining boards. All applicants examined by the board of examiners in the basic sciences shall be subjected to the same examination and rated on the same scale, as nearly as may be. All applicants, except appli- cants for licenses to practice midwifery, shall be subjected to the same examination and rated on the same scale, by the respective examining boards to which they are referred by the commission, To be in writing. in the diagnosis and prevention of communicable disease. Every examination shall be in writing, in the English language, but each s hall be supp leme nted, if pra ctic able , by lab orat ory and clin ical tes ts and, if the comm issi on d eems pro per, may be supp leme nted by oral Id enti ty of per son e xami nati ons. Every examination shall be conducted, so far as the not to be known. character of the examination permits, so that no examining board and no member thereof shall know the identity of the person Similarity of ques- examined. In any one examination by any one board the questions tions . propounded to and the problems set for each applicant shall be as Standard ru le for nearly the same as the character of the examination will permit. As credi ts, etc. a guide for determining whether an applicant has or has not passed, the commission shall fix by rule a uniform standard for all appli- cants, except that the commission may fix maximum credits to be allowed for such experience a s the applicant may have had as a licensed practitioner and in the discretion of the commission may require an applicant claiming any such credit to be subjected to clinical and laboratory tests to demonstrate what credit he shall be Modifications al- al lo we d, i f an y. The g eneral rules formulated by the commission lowed. t o govern examinations may be modified with respect to examinations conducted by the board of examiners in the basic sciences and by boards of examiners in midwifery, in so far as the nature and func- Uniform standard of tion of the examinations conducted by those boards require. Except examinations. as hereinbefore stated, all examinations shall conform as nearly as may be to a uniform standard, to the end that every licensed prac- titioner of the healing art in the District of Columbia may conform so far as may be possible to a single uniform standard of professional fitness. Boards to submit in- tended que stion s to SEC. 20 . The board of examiners in the basic sciences, the board of co mmission. examiners in medicine and osteopathy, and each board of examiners in drugless healing before which any applicant is to appear at the next ensuing examination, shall submit to the commission, not less than ten days before each examination, such questions as may be Preparation, distri- required by the rules of the commission governing examinations. bution, etc ., of ques- The commission shall cause the questions so submitted to be prepared tions. for distribution and to be distributed in the course of the examination at appropriate times ; but from the questions submitted by the several exam inin g bo ards in the diag nosi s an d pr even tion of comm unic able diseases, the commission shall select the questions to be used, and if the commission deems proper may revise and supplement such questions, and shall submit to all applicants appearing at any one examination the identical questions with respect to the subject named. P laces and faci litie s SEC. 21 . The commission shall provide the place or places and all for examinations. necessary facilities for examinations, including such supervisors or App licants to b e as- proctors as the commission deems necessary. The commission shall sig ned numbers. assign to each applicant a number under which his examination shall be conducted, with a view to the concealment of the identity of the examinee from the examiner, so far as may be practicable. Del ivery to, an d ex- The supervisor or proctor designated by the commission shall collect o of papers . bexami- ners, all examination papers and deliver them or cause them to be delivered to the several examiners who are to examine them. Each examining board shall, as speedily as possible, examine all applicants referred

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