2005 West Virginia Code - §30-14-2. — Definitions.

§30-14-2. Definitions.

For the purposes of this article:
"Osteopathy" shall mean that system of the healing art which places the chief emphasis on the structural integrity of the body mechanism as being the most important single factor in maintaining the well-being of the organism in health and disease;
"Board" shall mean the West Virginia board of osteopathy;
"Approved osteopathic college" shall mean a college of osteopathy and surgery which requires as a minimum prerequisite for admission preprofessional training of at least two years of academic work in specified scientific subjects, as prescribed by the board, or by the college accrediting agency of the American osteopathic association, in a standard college of arts and sciences of equal rank with the college of arts and sciences of West Virginia University, and which requires for graduation a four-year course of nine months each approved by the board in accordance with the minimum standards established by the American osteopathic association;
"Approved hospital for intern training" shall mean a hospital approved for intern training by the board or by the hospital accrediting agency of the American osteopathic association;
"Reciprocal endorsement" shall mean a duly authenticated certificate of the board, addressed to a board or agency of another country, state, territory, province or the District of Columbia, vouching that a certificate of license issued to an osteopathic physician and surgeon pursuant to the laws of this state is currently valid and not suspended or revoked for any cause or causes specified in this article.