2018 Mississippi Code
Title 73 - Professions and Vocations
Chapter 26 - Physician Assistants
§ 73-26-1. Definitions.

Universal Citation:
MS Code § 73-26-1 (2018)
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  • As used in this chapter:
  • (a) “Board” means the State Board of Medical Licensure.

  • (b) “Physician assistant” means a person who meets the board’s criteria for licensure as a physician assistant and is licensed as a physician assistant by the board. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the licensure of anesthesiologist’s assistants.

  • (c) “Supervising physician” means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds an unrestricted license from the board, and who is in the full-time practice of medicine and who has been approved by the board to supervise physician assistants.

  • (d) “Supervision” means overseeing and accepting responsibility for the medical services rendered by a physician assistant in a manner approved by the board.

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