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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="14-302" title_number="14" title_name="Physicians" subtitle_number="3">
  <text>Subject to the rules, regulations, and orders of the Board, the following individuals may practice medicine without a license:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>A medical student or an individual in a postgraduate medical training program that is accredited by an accrediting organization recognized by the Board in regulations, while the individual is practicing medicine in the program and doing the assigned duties at any office of a licensed physician, hospital, clinic, or similar facility;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>A physician licensed by and residing in another jurisdiction, if the physician:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Is engaged in consultation with a physician licensed in the State about a particular patient and does not direct patient care;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <level label="1">
        <text>Has an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the jurisdiction where the physician regularly engages in the practice of medicine;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Is employed by or has a written agreement with an athletic team or a sports team based outside the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>Is designated as the team physician by the athletic or sports team to provide medical care to the team’s members, band members, cheerleading squad, mascot, coaches, and other staff who travel to a specified sporting event taking place in the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>While in the State, provides medical care only to individuals listed in item 3 of this item;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>Does not provide medical care in the State for more than 45 days in a calendar year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>Does not engage in the practice of medicine at a hospital, related institution, or other health care facility, including an acute care facility, located within the State; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Is engaged in clinical training or participates in training or teaching of a skill or procedure in a hospital if:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>The skill or procedure:</text>
      </level>
      <level label="A">
        <text>Is advanced beyond those skills or procedures normally taught or exercised in the hospital and in standard medical education or training;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>Could not be otherwise conveniently taught or demonstrated in standard medical education or training in that hospital; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>Is likely to benefit Maryland patients in this instance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The demonstration of all skills or procedures by the physician does not exceed 14 days total in the calendar year;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>A licensed physician who practices at a hospital in the State will be responsible for the medical care provided by that visiting physician to patients in the State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>The visiting physician has no history of any medical disciplinary action in any other state, territory, nation, or any branch of the uniformed services or the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and has no significant detrimental malpractice history;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>The physician is covered by malpractice insurance in the jurisdiction in which the physician practices; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>The hospital ensures that the patients will be protected by adequate malpractice insurance;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>A physician employed in the service of the federal government while practicing within the scope of the employment;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>A physician who resides in and is authorized to practice medicine by any state adjoining this State for the purpose of prescribing home health services to a patient who resides in this State, if the physician:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Does not have an office or other regularly appointed place in this State to meet patients; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Has performed an in–person physical examination of the patient within the jurisdictional boundaries of the adjoining state in which the prescribing physician is authorized to practice medicine; and</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>An individual while under the supervision of a licensed physician who has specialty training in psychiatry, and whose specialty training in psychiatry has been approved by the Board, if the individual submits an application to the Board on or before October 1, 1993, and either:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <level label="1">
        <text>Has a master’s degree from an accredited college or university; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Has completed a graduate program accepted by the Board in a behavioral science that includes 1,000 hours of supervised clinical psychotherapy experience; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <level label="1">
        <text>Has a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Has 4,000 hours of supervised clinical experience that is approved by the Board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
