§ 5-37-1. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Board” means the Rhode Island board of medical licensure and discipline or any committee or subcommittee thereof. (2) “Chief administrative officer” means the administrator of the Rhode Island board of medical licensure and discipline. (3) “Department” means the Rhode Island department of health. (4) “Director” means […]
§ 5-37-1.1. Board of medical licensure and discipline — Creation — Composition — Appointment, removal, and compensation of members — Officers — Meetings — Funds. (a)(1) There is created within the department of health, the Rhode Island board of medical licensure and discipline which is composed of the following members: (i) Four (4) licensed physicians […]
§ 5-37-1.2. Examining committees. (a) The chairperson shall appoint two (2) physician members of the board who possess the degree of doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine and one public member of the board to serve as an examining committee for applicants applying for licensure as allopathic or osteopathic physicians. The examining committee for allopathic […]
§ 5-37-1.3. Board of medical licensure and discipline — Powers and duties. The board has the following duties and powers: (1) To adopt, amend, and rescind rules and regulations, with the approval of the director, necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter; (2) To investigate all complaints and charges of unprofessional conduct against […]
§ 5-37-1.4. Director — Powers and duties. The director has the following duties and powers: (1) With the prior approval of the governor, the director shall appoint a chief administrative officer who shall administer and supervise the investigatory and other activities of the board. The chief administrative officer shall be selected from a list of […]
§ 5-37-1.5. Immunity. (a) The director of the department of health, chief administrative officer, board members, and their agents and employees are immune from suit in any action, civil or criminal, based on any disciplinary proceeding or other official act performed in good faith in the course of their duties under this chapter. There is […]
§ 5-37-10. Biannual registration, physicians — Annual registration, hospitals. (a) Effective beginning in calendar year 2004, on or before the first day of March in each year, the board shall mail an application for biannual registration to every person to whom a license to practice medicine in this state has been granted by the licensing […]
§ 5-37-11. Inactive list. A physician licensed to practice medicine who does not intend to engage in the practice of his or her profession during any year, upon written request to the board, may have his or her name transferred to an inactive list, and is not required to register annually or pay any registration […]
§ 5-37-12. Unauthorized practice of medicine. Any person who is not lawfully authorized to practice medicine within this state, and registered according to law, who practices medicine or surgery or attempts to practice medicine or surgery, or any of the branches of medicine or surgery, after having received or with the intent of receiving, either […]
§ 5-37-13. [Repealed.] History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 165, § 7; P.L. 1896, ch. 340, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 193, § 7; G.L. 1923, ch. 159, § 7; G.L. 1938, ch. 275, § 7; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; impl. am. P.L. 1949, ch. 2228, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 5-37-13; […]
§ 5-37-14. Exceptions to licensure requirement — Immunity from liability. No person licensed under this chapter, or members of the same professions licensed to practice in other states of the United States, who voluntarily and gratuitously and other than in the ordinary course of his or her employment or practice renders emergency medical assistance to […]
§ 5-37-15. Practice of religious beliefs. This chapter and chapter 30 of this title shall not be construed to affect the practice of the religious tenets of any church; provided, that any sanitary laws of the state, or rules and regulations of any officer, board, division, or department, as now are or hereafter may be […]
§ 5-37-16. Limited registrations. (a) An applicant for limited registration under this chapter who furnishes the board with satisfactory proof that the applicant is eighteen (18) years of age or older and of good moral character; that the applicant has graduated from a legally chartered medical school or school of osteopathic medicine having power to […]
§ 5-37-16.1. Limited registration — Academic faculty. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a physician of noteworthy and recognized professional attainment who is a clearly outstanding physician and who has been offered by the dean of a medical school in this state a full-time academic appointment, shall be eligible for a limited registration while […]
§ 5-37-16.2. Exceptions to licensure requirement. (a) A physician who is licensed to practice medicine in another state or states, but not in this state, and who is in good standing in such state or states, may exercise the privilege to practice medicine for a patient located in this state under the following circumstances only: […]
§ 5-37-17. Power to examine individuals. Persons between the ages of eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21) years may give legal consent for examination and treatment for illnesses resulting from administration of drugs, and any physical examination and treatment by a registered physician, hospital, or mental-health facility as designated and defined by regulations of the department […]
§ 5-37-18. Prescription slips. Every prescription slip issued by a physician shall contain the clearly-printed name and address of the issuing physician. In addition, every prescription written in this state shall have one line for the practitioner’s signature. History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 122, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 237, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. […]
§ 5-37-18.1. Physicians required to authorize product selection. Every licensed Rhode Island physician, when prescribing any drug by brand name, shall in each prescription, oral, written, or electronic, authorize a less expensive generic-equivalent drug product by signing the prescription. If, in the professional judgment of the prescribing physician, the brand name is medically necessary, the […]
§ 5-37-18.2. Penalty for violating § 5-37-18 or § 5-37-18.1. Any person, firm, or corporation, who or that violates any of the provisions of § 5-37-18 or § 5-37-18.1 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation. History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 237, § 2; P.L. 1981, ch. 88, § […]
§ 5-37-19. Blank prescriptions. Any physician who signs a prescription in blank and delivers it to a patient or any other person except a duly licensed pharmacist shall be fined no more than five hundred dollars ($500). History of Section.P.L. 1971, ch. 185, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 110, § 1.
