Philippine Medical School Graduates' Practice Act

Section 1 authorizes qualifying Philippine Medical School graduates to practice without taking the examination prescribed by Act No. 310.
Section 2 makes medicine and surgery practitioners covered by Section 1 subject to Act No. 310 and liable to the penalties therein.
Section 3(d) provides that failure to comply with the scholarship return-to-province obligation is a sufficient ground for revocation of license and directs that revocation shall follow the same manner as other offenses described by Section 8 of Act No. 310.
Section 3(a) ties the required scholarship-entrance competitive examination to standards that are at least equal to high school graduation examinations in the Philippine Islands.

Act No. 1632 establishes a streamlined pathway for Philippine Medical School degree holders to obtain authority to practice medicine and surgery.
Act No. 1632 creates free medical school scholarships for each province, awarded through competitive examinations.

Section 1 grants eligibility to any graduate of the Philippine Medical School established by Act No. 1415, who receives the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Upon presenting the diploma from the Philippine Medical School to the Board of Medical Examiners for the Philippine Islands, the graduate is entitled to receive a registration certificate without examination.
Section 1 directs the Board of Medical Examiners to issue the certificate of registration without examination to qualified graduates.
Section 1 requires recording of the certificate in the office of the register of deeds in the province or provinces where practice will occur, or in the city of Manila, as applicable.
After recording, Section 1 entitles the registrant to practice medicine and surgery in the Philippine Islands.

Section 2 provides that persons practicing medicine or surgery under Section 1 are subject, in all other respects, to Act No. 310.
Section 2 imposes liability for penalties under Act No. 310 on these covered practitioners.

Section 3 establishes one free scholarship in the Philippine Medical School for each province of the Philippine Islands.
Section 3(a) requires a competitive examination in each province on June 1, 1907.
Section 3(a) provides that the examination is under the general supervision of the Director of Education and the immediate control of the division superintendent of schools.
Section 3(a) requires the Secretary of Public Instruction to prescribe an examination that is at least equal to the examinations required for graduation from the high schools in the Philippine Islands.
Section 3(a) awards the scholarship for each province to the competitor obtaining the highest general percentage above seventy-five per centum in each subject.

Section 3(b) requires certification of successful competitors by the Director of Education to the board of control of the Philippine Medical School.
Section 3(b) states that upon approval by the board of control, successful competitors are duly matriculated in the Philippine Medical School.
Section 3(c) provides that successful competitors become Government students.
Section 3(c) authorizes payment of scholarship expenses, including:
- expenses of transportation to Manila;
- board, subsistence, and maintenance while in Manila attending the Philippine Medical School, not exceeding PHP 500 per annum each; and
- transportation returning to their provinces upon receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Section 3(c) requires these privileges to end if a student:
- fails to pass the prescribed examinations for entrance into the next higher year; or
- violates any rule or regulation of the Medical School resulting in expulsion.
Section 3(c) mandates that any student failing or expelled is denied further scholarship privileges and is forthwith returned to his province at Government expense.

Section 3(d) requires each scholarship student who graduates with the degree of Doctor of Medicine to return to his province and practice medicine and surgery for a period at least equal to the time of his scholarship tuition unless an exception applies.
The exception in Section 3(d) allows the scholarship student to avoid the return-and-practice period if he accepts appointment under the Government of the Philippine Islands or one of its branches.
Section 3(d) allows the Secretary of the Interior to grant permission to do otherwise.
Section 3(d) provides that failure to comply with the scholarship return-to-province obligation is sufficient grounds for revocation of his license to practice medicine and surgery in the Philippine Islands.
Section 3(d) directs that revocation shall proceed in the same manner as other offenses described by Section 8 of Act No. 310.

Section 3(e) provides that no tuition, laboratory, or other fees shall be charged scholarship students in the Philippine Medical School.

Section 4 appropriates PHP 15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 4 limits the use of the appropriation to carrying out the purposes of Section 3 (the scholarship program).
Section 4 directs that the sum shall be expended by the Bureau of Education.
Section 4 requires the Bureau of Education to expend funds under the same general conditions as moneys appropriated for the education and maintenance of Philippine Government students in the United States.

Section 5 repeals all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with Act No. 1632.
Section 6 provides that passage is expedited under section two of the September 26, 1900 procedural act.
Section 7 provides that Act No. 1632 takes effect on its passage.