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 1336 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ca. 352. 1929 . licensing agency of the District of Columbia of the same class, the commission shall issue to the applicant a license to practice the healing art corresponding in scope as nearly as may be to the license Applicants o. a pplic ants fail in g ex- issued to him by the jurisdiction whence he comes : Provided, That am ination under an applicant who has been examined under authority of the com- a uthor ity of commis- s ion . mission and who has failed, shall not thereafter be licensed by the commission by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction. ceApplicsn ts af or ei- SEC . 26 . Each applicant for a license to practice the healing art, a minat ion, to submi t to be issued a fter examinat ion, shall sub mit with his application character, o and o educa s proof satisfactory to the commission that he is not less than twenty_ tion. one years of age ; that he is of good moral character ; that he has had not less than two years of preprofessional education and train- ing in a college or university acceptable to the commission before entering on the study of the healing art ; that he has studied the healing art through not l ess than four graded course s of not less than nine months each, in a professional school or schools registered under this Act, and has been graduated by such a school with the degree of doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathy, or some equiva- lent degree ; and, if required by the commission, that he has had not less than one year of training in a hospital registered by the com- Proaisos. mission under this Act : Pro vided That an applicant who has had admitted ex ami na- I tion, but license de- the education and training required above, in preprofe ssional and ferred until graduated from registered school. professional schools, but whose graduation has been deferred b the professional school he last attended until after he has completed his training in a registered hospital, may be admitted to examina- tion ; but no license shall be issued to any such applicant until after he has been gr aduated from a registered s chool : Provided further, on proof of grad,ia- That an applicant for a license to be issued after examination who tion, training, etc ., required under former was graduated before the approval of this Act by a school registered la w. under this Act may, if otherwise qualified, be admitted to examina- tion upon proo f by the appl icant of such preprofession al and pro- fessional educ ation and tra ining, and of such graduati on, as were required by the laws of the District of Columbia regulating the prac- tice of medici ne and surger y at the time of such gradu ation : Pr o - Osteopathy and sur- vided further, That an applicant for a license to practice osteopathy gery requirements. and surgery wh o has been gr aduated as afo resaid prior to December 31, 1930, shall be examined and licensed on showing that he was graduated by a high school acceptable to the commissio n before he entered on the study of osteopathy and that he in all other respects Drugl ess healing re- is qualified as aforesaid for examination : And provided further, quirements. That an applicant for a license to practice drugless healing, who has been graduated before December 31, 1935, may be admitted to exami- nation on proof that before entering on the study of drugless heal- ing he was graduated by a high school acceptable to the commission, and that he in all other respects is qualified as aforesaid for exami- nation, and was graduated by a school registered under this Act, teaching the method of healing that he intends to follow, with a degree appropr iate to that method of heal ing, after no t less than three graded courses of resident study and training of at least six c oll ege edu cat ion , etc., required for appli- m on th s e ac h. After December 31, 1935, every s uch applicant shall ca iossafter December be required to submit, before he is referred to an examining board for examination, evidence of not less than two years' education in a college acceptable to the commission and not less than four graded resident courses of professional study of not less than nine months each, in the same manner and to the same extent as are required of other applicants for licenses to practice the healing art. Midwifery require- An applicant for a license to practice midwifery shall submit menu. proof, satisfactory to the commission, that before beginning the study of midwifery she had been graduated by a high school accept.

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