Exemptions

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  • (a) The Medical Practice Act shall not apply to:

    • (1) students while engaged in training in a medical school approved by the state medical board;

    • (2) those providing service in cases of emergency where no fee or other consideration is contemplated, charged or received;

    • (3) commissioned medical officers of the armed forces of the United States and medical officers of the United States Public Health Service or the Veterans Administration of the United States in the discharge of their official duties and/or within federally controlled facilities, provided that such persons who hold medical licenses in the jurisdiction are subject to the provisions of this subchapter, and provided that all such persons must be fully licensed to practice medicine in one or more jurisdictions of the United States;

    • (4) those practicing dentistry, nursing, optometry, podiatry, psychology or any other of the healing arts in accord with and as provided by the laws of the jurisdiction;

    • (5) those practicing the tenets of a religion or ministering to the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means in accord with such tenets, provided that no person is exempt from the public health laws of the jurisdiction or the federal government;

    • (6) a person administering a lawful domestic or family remedy to a member of the person's own family; or

    • (7) those persons who are fully licensed to practice medicine in another jurisdiction of the United States who briefly render emergency medical treatment or briefly provide critical medical service at the specific lawful direction of a medical institution or federal agency that assumes full responsibility for that treatment or service and is approved by the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners.


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