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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>368415</law_id><section_number>54.1-2941</section_number><catch_line>Contracts of practitioners with approved colleges and certain state agencies not prohibited</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="118" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="10" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="3" identifier="3">Licensure of Physicians of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, Chiropractors, and Podiatrists</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit, forbid or prevent (i) any approved school of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry or chiropractic from contracting with any licensed practitioner to teach or participate in a preceptorship program in such college on such terms of compensation as may be mutually satisfactory, which <span class="dictionary">contract</span> may prescribe the extent, if any, to which the practitioner may engage in private practice, or (ii) any institution, hospital, treatment center, sanatorium or other similar agency under the management and control of an agency of the Commonwealth from employing or contracting with any licensed practitioner to furnish professional services in the work of the agency, or to persons entitled to receive such care from the agency.</p></section></text><history>1958, c. 275, &#xA7; 54-275.1; 1984, c. 710; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
