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Section 21 of the Medical Act, as amended requires a candidate who fails for the third time in the complete or final examination to take a refresher course prescribed by the Board.
The refresher course must be completed before the candidate is allowed to take subsequent examinations.
The refresher course must be taken in a recognized medical school or college and must be at least one year.

The Board establishes the refresher course as a remedial program to develop the competencies needed to pass the board examination.
The Board determines that the refresher course content shall follow the emphasis of the undergraduate medical curriculum focusing on areas relevant to developing the basic physician.
The Board replaces the earlier one-year implementation approach because of non-availability of a medical school to implement the earlier course model.

The refresher course prescribed applies to a candidate who fails for the third time in the complete or final examination.
Candidates subject to the refresher course must complete the prescribed program in the required structure and manner before being allowed to take subsequent examinations.
Course acceptance and progression are governed by the evaluation and certification requirements stated in this resolution.

The course establishes acceptance requirements requiring candidates to undergo physical and psychiatric evaluation to determine and correct any underlying disorder that may prevent adequate profit from the course (Strategy 1).
The course targets adult learning competencies, emphasizing information and application through:
- lectures and readings for information input,
- explanations of basic principles and concepts and their application in common problems,
- practice tests (oral and written) with immediate feedback, and
- repeated retesting of earlier learned principles with opportunities for continuous use (Strategy 2).
The course schedules a One calendar year program distributed into 4 quarters of 10 weeks each for instruction, 2 weeks for examinations, and 10 weeks for Lenten, Christmas interquarter breaks, and holidays (Strategy 3).
The total instruction hours are fixed at 1200 at 6 hours/day and 5 days/week (Strategy 3).
The hour allocation is fixed as follows (Strategy 3):
- Medicine (including Psychiatry, Neurology, etc.) = 180 hours,
- Surgery (including EENT) = 180 hours,
- Pediatrics = 120 hours,
- OB-Gyne, Preventive Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Micro-Parasitology, Pathology and Pharmacology = 84 hours each,
- Legal Medicine = 48 hours.

Following each quarter, the course requires a simulated board examination (Evaluation 1).
Candidates who fail a simulated board examination after a quarter must be given remedial work (Evaluation 1).
Individual instruction must focus on specific weaknesses for candidates who fail (Evaluation 1).
At the end of the course, the program requires a final simulated board examination (Evaluation 2).
Candidates who fail the final simulated board examination must not be certified as having passed the course (Evaluation 2).

Only examinees who submit a certificate of completion signed by the Dean of the medical school of the refresher course may be allowed to take the examination (Certification).
The certificate submission requirement is absolute for eligibility to take the examination under the refresher course regimen (Certification).

The resolution completely rescinds Board Resolution No. 173 dated June 17, 1988.
After approval by the Commission, this resolution becomes effective for examinations scheduled in 1991.