LAC 46:XLV.315. Waiver of Qualifications

A. Upon request by an applicant, supported by certification from the dean of a medical school or college or chief medical officer of an academic medical center within the state of Louisiana which is approved by the board, the board may, in its discretion, waive the qualifications for licensure otherwise required by §311.A.5 or 6, in favor of an applicant who has been formally appointed by a medical school or college to a full-time position at a rank of assistant professor or above or to a full-time position as an employee of an academic medical center whose duties and responsibilities are devoted primarily to training residents and fellows and other academic endeavors within post-graduate medical education. The practice of such an individual shall be limited to the medical school or college or academic medical center for which such person has been approved by the board, and to hospitals and clinics affiliated with such medical school or college or academic medical center within the same geographic area of the state. B. Special Definition. For purposes of this Section, the term academic medical center shall be a hospital located in this state that sponsors four or more post-graduate medical education programs approved by the ACGME. At least two of such programs shall be in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, family practice, emergency medicine or psychiatry.