Georgia Code, Title 43, Chapter 34, Article 2 - Medical Practice

• § 43-34-20 - Short Title
  This article shall be known as the "Medical Practice Act of the State of Georgia."
• § 43-34-21 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Board" means the Georgia Composite Medical Board. (2) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine...
• § 43-34-22 - Practicing Medicine Without a License; Titles and Abbreviations; Exceptions
  (a) If any person shall hold himself or herself out to the public as being engaged in the diagnosis or treatment of disease or...
• § 43-34-23 - Delegation of Authority to Nurse or Physician Assistant
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Administer" means to give a unit dose of any drug or to perform any...
• § 43-34-24 - Drug Therapy Management; Modification by Pharmacist
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term "pharmacist" means a person who meets the requirements specified in Code Section 26-4-50.(b) A physician...
• Section 43-34-24.1. - Redesignated
• § 43-34-25 - Delegation of Certain Medical Acts to Advanced Practice Registered Nurse; Construction and Limitations of Such Delegation; Definitions; Conditions of Nurse Protocol; Issuance of Prescription Drug Orders
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Advanced practice registered nurse" shall have the same meaning as provided in paragraph (1.1)...
• § 43-34-26 - License Requirement for Persons Engaged in Practice of Medicine; Qualifications; Evaluation Program; Examinations
  (a) (1) (A) Any person who wishes to obtain the right to practice medicine in this state and who was not, prior to March...
• § 43-34-26.1 - Vaccine Protocol Agreements
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Administer" means the provision of a unit dose of vaccine by a pharmacist or...
• Section 43-34-26.2. - Redesignated
• Section 43-34-26.3. - Redesignated
• § 43-34-27 - Licensing Aliens; Licensing Canadian Medical School Graduates
  Any qualified applicant who is an alien, except for graduates of accredited Canadian medical schools as approved by the board, must have resided in...
• § 43-34-28 - Reciprocity
  The board may grant a license without examination to licensees of boards of other states requiring equal or higher qualifications.
• § 43-34-29 - Issuance of Teacher's License to Licensed Physicians of Other States and Foreign Countries; Renewal
  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the board may issue, in its discretion, without examination, a teacher's license to licensed physicians of other...
• § 43-34-29.1 - Administrative Medicine Licenses; Definitions; Requirements; Rules of Board
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Administrative medicine" means administration or management utilizing the medical and clinical knowledge, skill, and...
• § 43-34-29.2 - Educational Certificates for Out-Of-state Physicians Participating in Educational Training Requiring Patient Care
  The board may issue, in its discretion, an educational certificate to a licensed physician of another state or foreign country to participate in educational...
• § 43-34-30 - Out-Of-state Physicians Entering State for Consultation; Establishment of Offices by Out-Of-state Physicians
  Licensed physicians of other states and foreign countries may be permitted to enter this state for consultation with any licensed physician of this state....
• § 43-34-31 - Practice of Medicine From Foreign Jurisdiction by Electronic Means; Exceptions; Patient Records; Confidentiality
  (a) A person who is physically located in another state or foreign country and who, through the use of any means, including electronic, radiographic,...
• Section 43-34-31.1. - Redesignated
• § 43-34-32 - Temporary Licenses
  The executive director, with the approval of the chairperson of the board, may in his or her discretion issue a temporary license to an...
• § 43-34-33 - Institutional Licenses
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, under exceptional circumstances the board may consider applications from institutions on behalf of physicians who are...
• § 43-34-34 - Limited Provisional Licenses
  A person who held a valid provisional license on or before April 16, 1979, shall be able to renew such license annually without any...
• § 43-34-35 - Issuance of License Upon Presentation of Evidence of Required Qualifications
  The board shall issue licenses to practice medicine to all persons who shall furnish satisfactory evidence of attainments and qualifications under this article and...
• § 43-34-36 - Passing Upon Good Standing and Reputation of Medical and Osteopathic Colleges
  The board is authorized to pass upon the good standing and reputation of any medical school or osteopathic medical school. Only such medical schools...
• § 43-34-37 - Persons Authorized to Perform Artificial Insemination; Civil Liability of Physician or Surgeon
  (a) Physicians and surgeons licensed to practice medicine in accordance with and under this article shall be the only persons authorized to administer or...
• § 43-34-38 - Access to Medical Treatment; Experimental and Nonconventional Medical Treatments
  (a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the "Access to Medical Treatment Act."(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,...
• § 43-34-39 - Injunctions; Violations of Article As Constituting Nuisance
  In addition to any other remedy or criminal prosecution, whenever it shall appear to the board that any person, firm, company, partnership, association, or...
• § 43-34-40 - Fraudulently Obtaining or Selling Records; Fraudulent Use of Terms
  Any person who shall buy, sell, or fraudulently obtain any diploma, license, record, or registration to practice osteopathic medicine, illegally obtained or signed, or...
• § 43-34-41 - Special Licenses for Volunteers
  (a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Volunteers in Medicine Health Care Act."(b) Notwithstanding any other provision...
• § 43-34-42 - Penalty
  (a) Any person who practices medicine without complying with this article or who otherwise violates any provision of this article shall be guilty of...
• Section 43-34-42.1. - Redesignated
• § 43-34-43 - Temporary Postgraduate Training Permits; Refusal to Issue a Permit; Discipline of Permit Holders; Notifications to Board; Authorization to Adopt Regulations
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Program director" means a physician licensed in this state who is responsible for screening,...
• § 43-34-44 - Role of Medical Assistants Clarified
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the performance by medical assistants of medical tasks, including subcutaneous and intramuscular injections; obtaining vital...
• § 43-34-45 - Polysomnography; Practice
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Polysomnography" means the treatment, management, diagnostic testing, control, education, and care of patients with...
• Section 43-34-45.1. - Redesignated
• Section 43-34-46. - Redesignated
• Section 43-34-47. - Redesignated

Last modified: October 14, 2016