45:9-6 - License required to practice medicine or surgery; applications; educational requirements; citizenship - New Jersey Statutes

45:9-6.  License required to practice medicine or surgery; applications; educational requirements;  citizenship
    All persons commencing the practice of medicine or surgery in this State shall apply to the board for a license so to do.  The board shall, except as herein otherwise provided, examine all qualified applicants for such a license.   Every applicant shall present to the secretary of the board, at least 20 days  before the commencement of the examination at which he desires to be examined,  a written application for admission to the examination on a form provided by  the board, together with satisfactory proof that he is more than 21 years of  age, of good moral character, and a citizen of the United States or has  declared his intention to become such a citizen.  He shall also present to the  board a certificate of the Commissioner of Education of this State showing  that, before entering a professional school or college, he had obtained an  academic education consisting of a 4 years' course of study in an approved  public or private high school or the equivalent thereof.  Any license issued to  an applicant prior to becoming a citizen of the United States shall be a  temporary license and subject to the provisions of Revised Statutes 45:9-14.

     Amended by L.1939, c. 115, p. 403, s. 6;  L.1968, c. 16, s. 1, eff. April 11,  1968.