65-2811. Issuance of temporary permits; postgraduate permits. (a) The board may issue a temporary permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts to any person who has made proper application for a license by endorsement, has the required qualifications for such license and has paid the prescribed fees, and such permit, when issued, shall authorize the person receiving the permit to practice within the limits of the permit until the license is issued or denied by the board, but no more than one such temporary permit shall be issued to any one person without the approval of ⅔ of the members of the board.

(b) The board may issue a postgraduate permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts to any person who is engaged in a full time, approved postgraduate training program; has made proper application for such postgraduate permit upon forms approved by the board; meets all qualifications of licensure, except the examinations required under K.S.A. 65-2873 and amendments thereto and postgraduate training, as required by this act; has paid the prescribed fees established by the board for such postgraduate permit; has passed such examinations in the basic and clinical sciences approved under rules and regulations adopted by the board; and, if the person is a graduate of a foreign medical school, has passed an examination given by the educational commission for foreign medical graduates.

(c) The postgraduate permit issued under subsection (b) shall authorize the person receiving the permit to practice the appropriate branch of the healing arts in the postgraduate training program while continuously so engaged but shall not authorize the person receiving the permit to engage in the private practice of the healing arts.

(d) A postgraduate permit issued under subsection (b) shall be canceled if:

(1) The holder thereof ceases to be engaged in the postgraduate training program; or

(2) the holder thereof has engaged in the practice of the healing arts outside of the postgraduate training program.

History: L. 1957, ch. 343, § 11; L. 1969, ch. 299, § 3; L. 1970, ch. 260, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 273, § 7; L. 1984, ch. 235, § 1; L. 1985, ch. 216, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 240, § 3; L. 1988, ch. 251, § 1; L. 1989, ch. 196, § 4; L. 1995, ch. 82, § 2; L. 2000, ch. 141, § 2; July 1.