Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 73-26-1 (2026)
Definitions
✓ current as of July 2026
As used in this chapter:
- (a) "Board" means the State Board of Medical Licensure.
- (b) "Physician assistant" means a person who meets the board's criteria for licensure as a physician assistant and is licensed as a physician assistant by the board. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the licensure of anesthesiologist's assistants.
- (c) "Supervising physician" means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds an unrestricted license from the board, and who is in the full-time practice of medicine and who has been approved by the board to supervise physician assistants.
- (d) "Supervision" means overseeing and accepting responsibility for the medical services rendered by a physician assistant in a manner approved by the board.
Laws, 2000, ch. 470, § 1, eff. 7/1/2000.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2010–2010 · leading case: Cox v. MA Primary & Urgent Care Clinic, 313 S.W.3d 240 (Tenn. 2010).
Cox v. MA Primary & Urgent Care Clinic, 313 S.W.3d 240 (Tenn. 2010). “) (defining a physician's supervision of a physician assistant as "overseeing the activities of, and accepting responsibility for, the medical services rendered by a physician assistant”); Miss.Code Ann. § 73-26-1 (d) (West, Westlaw through 2009 Sess.”
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