45:5-3 Applicants for examination; qualifications in general.

45:5-3. All persons desiring to commence the practice of podiatric medicine in this State shall apply to the board for a license so to do. Every such applicant for examination shall present to the secretary of said board, at least ten days before the commencement of the examination at which he is to be examined, a written application on a form provided by the board, together with satisfactory proof that he is a citizen of the United States more than twenty-one years of age, is of good moral character, has obtained a certificate from the Commissioner of Education of this State, showing that before entering a school or college of podiatric medicine he had obtained an academic education consisting of a four years' course of study in an approved public or private high school or the equivalent thereof, and has received a diploma conferring the degree of doctor of podiatric medicine from some legally incorporated school or college of podiatric medicine of the United States requiring personal attendance, in good standing in the opinion of the board at the time of issuance of such diploma, and that prior to the receipt of such diploma from any such school or college of podiatric medicine of the United States, he had studied podiatric medicine not less than two full school years, including two satisfactory courses of lectures of at least eight months each, in two different calendar years in some legally incorporated American school or college of podiatric medicine requiring personal attendance, in good standing in the opinion of said board, and wherein the curriculum of study shall include instruction in the following branches:

Practical podiatric medicine, podiatric orthopaedics, dermatology, diagnosis, anatomy, physiology, therapeutics in all its branches, pathology, histology, bacteriology, pharmacy and materia medica, chemistry, surgery and bandaging pertaining to the ailments of the feet or ankles.

Amended 1947, c.355, s.2; 2005, c.259, s.3.