§ 33-26-102 — Definitions

Wyoming § 33-26-102

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 33: Professions and Occupations
• Ch. 26: PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
• Art. 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) Repealed by Laws 1991, ch. 143, § 2.
(ii) "A.O.A." means the American Osteopathic
Association;
(iii) "Board" means the Wyoming state board of
medicine;
(iv) "Errant conduct" means conduct by a licensee
which may constitute grounds for discipline as set forth in this
act;
(v) "Repealed by Laws 1991, ch. 143, § 2.
(vi) "Health care entity" means any hospital, clinic,
training program, professional society or committee of
physicians or other licensed health care practitioners that
follows a peer review process for the purpose of furthering
quality health care;
(vii) "Impaired" means a person who is unable to
practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients
by reason of one (1) or more of the following:
(A) Medical incompetence;
(B) Mental illness;
(C) Physical illness, including but not limited
to deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor
skill;
(D) Chemical or alcohol impairment, addiction,
dependence or abuse.
(viii) "Lapsed" means the status of a license when
the licensee fails to renew the license by July 1 of any year or
when the holder of a temporary license fails to appear for an
interview at the next board meeting following the date of
issuance or fails to submit a written request for extension of a
temporary license or when a written request for extension is not
approved by the board;
(ix) "License" means a license to practice medicine
in this state issued by the board pursuant to this chapter;
(x) "Licensee" means any person licensed by the board
under this chapter;
(xi) "Practicing medicine" means any person who in
any manner:
(A) Advertises, holds out, or represents to the
public that he is authorized to practice medicine in this state;
or
(B) Offers or undertakes to prevent, diagnose,
correct or treat, in any manner, by any means, method or device,
any human disease, illness, pain, wound, fracture, infirmity,
defect or abnormal physical or mental condition, injury,
deformity or ailment, including the management of pregnancy and
parturition; or
(C) Attaches the title of M.D., D.O., P.A.,
physician, surgeon, osteopathic physician or osteopathic
surgeon, doctor, physician assistant or any other words, letters
or abbreviations or any combination thereof when used in the
conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the
prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease or condition
unless the designation additionally contains the description of
another branch of the healing arts for which one holds a valid
license in this state; or
(D) Practices osteopathy; or
(E) Offers or undertakes to prescribe, order,
give or administer drugs which can only be obtained by
prescription according to law; or
(F) Renders a determination of medical necessity
or appropriateness of proposed treatment.
(xii) "Reactivation" after a license has lapsed means
the completion of all requirements set forth in W.S.
33-26-305(c);
(xiii) Repealed by Laws 2018, ch. 80, § 3.
(xiv) "USMLE" means the United States medical
licensing examination;
(xv) "L.C.M.E." means the liaison committee on
medical education;
(xvi) "A.C.G.M.E." means accreditation council for
graduate medical education;
(xvii) "Fifth pathway" means an academic year of
supervised clinical education provided by an L.C.M.E. accredited
medical school to students who have:
(A) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 190, § 3.
(B) Studied at a medical school outside of the
United States, Puerto Rico or Canada;
(C) Completed all of the formal requirements of
the foreign medical school, except internship or social service;
(D) Attained a score satisfactory to the
sponsoring medical school on a screening examination; and
(E) Passed the foreign medical graduate
examination in the medical sciences, parts I and II of the
examination of the national board of medical examiners, or steps
1 and 2 of the USMLE.
(xviii) "FLEX examination" means the federation of
state medical boards licensing examination;
(xix) "R.C.P.S.C." means the royal college of
physicians and surgeons of Canada;
(xx) "Physician-patient relationship" means a
relationship between a licensee and any person formed for the
purpose of the licensee providing medical diagnosis or treatment
to the person, whether or not for compensation;
(xxi) "This act" means the Medical Practice Act;
(xxii) "Board counsel" means an attorney designated
by the board to provide legal counsel to the board and its staff
in the conduct of the board's business;
(xxiii) "Board prosecutor" means an attorney
designated by the board to prosecute, and to provide legal
counsel to interviewers and petitioners in, disciplinary cases
pending before the board pursuant to this act and the Wyoming
Administrative Procedure Act;
(xxiv) "COMLEX" means the comprehensive osteopathic
medical licensing examination, administered by the national
board of osteopathic medical examiners;
(xxv) "Condition" means a specific requirement or
prohibition imposed by any medical licensing board of any
jurisdiction, or by any health care facility on an applicant's
or licensee's clinical privileges at that facility, that shall
be fulfilled by an applicant or licensee in order to obtain or
continue to hold a license in that jurisdiction, or clinical
privileges at that facility;
(xxvi) "E.C.F.M.G." means the educational commission
for foreign medical graduates;
(xxvii) "Restriction" means a limitation placed by
any medical licensing board of any jurisdiction on an
applicant's or licensee's scope of practice in that
jurisdiction, or by any health care facility on an applicant's
or licensee's clinical privileges at that facility;
(xxviii) "SPEX examination" means the federation of
state medical boards special purpose post-licensure competency
examination;
(xxix) "Telemedicine" means the practice of medicine
by electronic communication or other means from a physician in a
location to a patient in another location, with or without an
intervening health care provider.