§ 5-37-16. Limited registrations.
(a) An applicant for limited registration under this chapter who furnishes the board with satisfactory proof that the applicant is eighteen (18) years of age or older and of good moral character; that the applicant has graduated from a legally chartered medical school or school of osteopathic medicine having power to grant degrees in allopathic or osteopathic medicine; and that the applicant has been appointed an intern, resident, fellow, or medical officer in a hospital or other institution maintained by the state, or by a city or town, or in a hospital or clinic that is incorporated under the laws of this state, or in a clinic that is affiliated with a hospital licensed by the department of health, or in an outpatient clinic operated by the state, may, upon the payment as set forth in § 23-1-54, be registered by the board as a hospital medical officer for any time that the board may prescribe. This limited registration shall entitle the applicant to practice medicine in the hospital or other institution designated on his or her certificate of limited registration, or outside this hospital or other institution for the treatment, under the supervision of one of its medical officers who is a licensed physician, of persons accepted by it as patients, or in any hospital, institution, clinic, or program affiliated for training purposes with the hospital, institution, or clinic designated on this certificate, which affiliation is approved by the board, and in any case under regulations established by the hospital, institution, or clinic; provided, that each hospital, institution, or clinic annually submits to the board a list of affiliated hospitals, institutions, clinics, or programs providing training programs that comply with the terms of this section. Limited registration under this section may be revoked at any time by the board.
(b) The director may promulgate any rules and regulations that he or she deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 158, § 1; P.L. 1971, ch. 69, § 1; P.L. 1982, ch. 84, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 159, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 301, § 5; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 10; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 12.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-37 - Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline
Section 5-37-1. - Definitions.
Section 5-37-1.2. - Examining committees.
Section 5-37-1.3. - Board of medical licensure and discipline — Powers and duties.
Section 5-37-1.4. - Director — Powers and duties.
Section 5-37-2. - License to practice — Qualifications of applicants — Fee — Reexamination.
Section 5-37-2.1. - Recertification — Continuing medical education.
Section 5-37-3. - Itinerants disqualified.
Section 5-37-4. - Refusal of licensure.
Section 5-37-5.1. - Unprofessional conduct.
Section 5-37-5.2. - Complaints.
Section 5-37-5.3. - Specification of charges.
Section 5-37-5.4. - Time and notice of hearing.
Section 5-37-6. - Subpoenas — Contempt.
Section 5-37-6.1. - Report of hearing.
Section 5-37-6.2. - Decision of the board.
Section 5-37-6.3. - Sanctions.
Section 5-37-7. - Appeal from the decision of the director.
Section 5-37-8. - Grounds for discipline without hearing.
Section 5-37-9.1. - Requirements relating to professional conduct.
Section 5-37-9.2. - Physician profiles — Public access to data.
Section 5-37-10. - Biannual registration, physicians — Annual registration, hospitals.
Section 5-37-11. - Inactive list.
Section 5-37-12. - Unauthorized practice of medicine.
Section 5-37-13. - [Repealed.]
Section 5-37-14. - Exceptions to licensure requirement — Immunity from liability.
Section 5-37-15. - Practice of religious beliefs.
Section 5-37-16. - Limited registrations.
Section 5-37-16.1. - Limited registration — Academic faculty.
Section 5-37-16.2. - Exceptions to licensure requirement.
Section 5-37-17. - Power to examine individuals.
Section 5-37-18. - Prescription slips.
Section 5-37-18.1. - Physicians required to authorize product selection.
Section 5-37-18.2. - Penalty for violating § 5-37-18 or § 5-37-18.1.
Section 5-37-19. - Blank prescriptions.
Section 5-37-20. - Acupuncture.
Section 5-37-21. - Fee splitting.
Section 5-37-22. - Disclosures.
Section 5-37-23. - Over-billing reward program.
Section 5-37-24. - [Repealed.]
Section 5-37-25. - Violations — Penalties.
Section 5-37-25.1. - Injunction of violations.
Section 5-37-26. - Medical forms.
Section 5-37-27. - Severability.
Section 5-37-28. - Communications of information among healthcare facilities.
Section 5-37-29. - Hospital responsibility to take action based upon adverse information received.
Section 5-37-30. - Closure of medical practice — Preservation of records.
Section 5-37-31. - Mammograms — Quality assurance standards.
Section 5-37-32. - Pap smears — Quality assurance standards.