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OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Governmental Services
1. Residency Experience
An applicant, under orders in a hospital conducted by governmental authority, may be credited with time in residency only if that hospital is conducting a residency program in obstetrics-gynecology accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or by the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (see Requirements).
2. Time-In-Practice Requirement
A candidate for the oral examination may receive time-in-practice credit for time in government service:
a. with verification of the duration of active duty.
b. when practice has involved chiefly the care of obstetrical and gynecological patients.
c. when the Board has received favorable reports of the candidate's professional activities while in service.
If a candidate for the oral examination has fulfilled a portion of the required obstetrical and gynecological practice as a civilian before entering governmental service, the remainder of the time needed to fulfill the requirement may be made in governmental service.
Emergency Care and Limitation of Practice
Physicians who assume responsibility for the health of male patients for operative or other care will not be regarded as specialists in obstetrics, gynecology and women's health, except as this practice is related to governmental services, the investigation and management of an infertility problem, the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, the provision of family planning services or care in an emergency.
Candidates for certification may, when necessary, participate in general emergency care.
What constitutes a satisfactory limitation of practice to the specialty necessarily depends upon the qualifications and experience of the individual, the availability and capabilities of other physicians in the community, and to some extent, what is customary in local practices.
As a rule, the privileges granted physicians in the practice of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health in any hospital are the prerogative of that hospital, not of this Board.
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