PUBLIC Law Chapter 162

24 months in a graduate educational program accredited by the

Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Canadian

Medical Association or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

of Canada. Notwithstanding other requirements of postgraduate

training, an applicant is eligible for licensure when the candidate

has satisfactorily graduated from a combined postgraduate training

program in which each of the contributing programs is accredited by

the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and the

applicant is eligible for accreditation by the American Board of

Medical Specialties in both specialties. Each applicant who has

graduated from an accredited medical school prior to January 1,

1970 must have satisfactorily completed at least 12 months in a

graduate educational program accredited by the Accreditation

Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Canadian Medical

Association or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of

Canada. Each applicant who has graduated from an accredited

medical school on or after July 1, 2004 or an unaccredited medical

school must have satisfactorily completed at least 36 months in a

graduate educational program accredited by the Accreditation

Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Canadian Medical

Association, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

or the Royal Colleges of England, Ireland or Scotland. An

applicant who has completed 24 months of postgraduate training and

has received an unrestricted endorsement from the director of an

accredited graduate education program in the State is considered to

have satisfied the postgraduate training requirements of this

subsection if the applicant continues in that program and completes

36 months of postgraduate training. Notwithstanding this

subsection, an applicant who is board certified by the American

Board of Medical Specialties is deemed to meet the postgraduate

training requirements of this subsection.

Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §3272, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §209,
is repealed.

Sec. 4. 32 MRSA §3273, as amended by PL 1991, c. 425, §15, is
repealed.

Sec. 5. 32 MRSA §3277, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §213,
is further amended to read:

§3277. Camp physicians

A physician who is qualified under section 3275 may, at the
discretion of the board, be temporarily licensed as a camp
physician so that the physician may care for the campers in that
particular camp for which the physician was hired and retained as
a camp physician. That physician is entitled to practice only on

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