Article IV – Member Category
Section 5 - Resident Members
A.
Qualifications - a resident member 1. Must fulfill the general qualifications of membership as specified in Article III Subsection A of these bylaws, except that the resident need not be fully licensed to practice medicine by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners; and 2. Must be serving an internship or residency program in a Louisiana hospital approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; and 3. Must be a member of the Resident Section.
B.
Rights - a resident member is entitled to full parliamentary and societal rights.
C.
Obligations - a resident member 1. Must fulfill the general obligations of membership as specified in Article III Subsection E of these bylaws; and 2. Shall pay full dues in an amount determined from time to time by the House of Delegates, but shall pay no special assessments. and may pay special assessments.
Section 7 - Medical Student Members
A.
Qualifications - a medical student member 1. Must be a medical student, in good standing, in a medical school in Louisiana, which has been approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation; or a medical student, in good standing, at the University of Queensland
in Australia and training at Ochsner Health System; 2. Must be a member of the Medical Student Section; 2. 3. Must be of good ethical and moral character; 3. 4.
Need not hold a degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy; and Need not be licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners.
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B. Rights - a medical student member 1. Is entitled to full parliamentary and societal rights except for the right to hold office and the right to vote at general membership meetings; 2. May vote at meetings of those Louisiana State Medical Society committees or House of Delegates committees of which the medical student he is member; and 3. Shall have the right to vote in the House of Delegates of the Louisiana State Medical Society if he or she is a delegate to the House of Delegates. Must comply with the bylaws and other rules of the Louisiana State Medical Society; 2. 3. Must comply with the principles of medical ethics adopted by the House of Delegates of the Louisiana State Medical Society; and 3. 4. Shall pay full dues in an amount determined from time to time by the House of Delegates, but shall pay no special assessments. and may pay special assessments. Article XII – House of Delegates (A)(11) Five delegates from the Medical Student Section, with one delegate representing each of the approved medical schools as delineated in Article IX (Membership Sections), Section 7 and one additional delegate for each 100 members of the medical student section members of the LSMS, or fraction thereof. C. Obligations - a medical student member 1. Must maintain membership in the Medical Student Section; 1 . 2.
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