| (a) The board may issue a temporary license to practice
medicine to a medical school graduate, who holds a research appointment
at an institution in accordance with subsection (b) of this section,
in a program approved by the board, under the following terms and
conditions listed in paragraphs (1) - (7) of this subsection.
(1) The research must be in clinical medicine and/or
the basic sciences of medicine.
(2) The research is limited to the duties and responsibilities
assigned by the applying institution to research appointee in their
research capacity.
(3) The research appointment must be approved by the
Dean of the medical school or the president of the institution.
(4) The research appointment must be supervised by
a faculty member of the institution who has an active unrestricted
Texas medical license.
(5) The research appointee must be of good professional
character as elaborated in the Medical Practice Act.
(6) The Postgraduate Research Temporary License may
be issued for a maximum of one year, is not renewable and cannot be
used towards physician licensure requirements in Texas.
(7) The Postgraduate Research Temporary License holder's
practice of medicine shall be limited to the confines of the institution
and to the area of the research assigned by the institution to the
physician.
(b) "Institution," as used in this section, shall mean
any of the following:
(1) a school of medicine in this state accredited by
the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the American Osteopathic
Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation;
(2) The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Tyler;
(3) The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center;
(4) an institutional sponsor of a graduate medical
education program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education, American Osteopathic Association's Commission on
Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA); or
(5) a nonprofit health corporation certified under §162.001,
Medical Practice Act, and affiliated with a program as described in
paragraph (4) of this subsection.
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