Section 5
SEC. 5. After March first, nineteen hundred and two, it shall be unlawful for any person to practice medicine, surgery, or midwifery in any of its branches in the Philippine Islands unless he holds a certificate of registration from the Board or has otherwise complied with the provisions of this Act. Any person in continuous practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery in any of their branches in the Philippine Islands prior to the passage of this Act may become a registered practitioner by submitting to the Board of Medical Examiners for the Philippine Islands a diploma of doctor or licentiate of medicine from a reputable medical school or college: Provided, That any person now a member of the highest class in the Saint Thomas University in the city of Manila who shall have pursued his studies in medicine and surgery in the said university for not less than five years, and shall receive a degree of licentaite in medicine and surgery from said university in the month of March, nineteen hundred and two, may likewise become a registered practitioner by submitting to the Board of Medical Examiners such degree on or before the first day of April, nineteen hundred and two. For the purposes of this section a physician who has been in the regular practice of his profession in these Islands, but whose practice has been interrupted by trips abroad for study or pleasure only, shall be deemed to have been in continuous practice: Provided, further, That any person who has passed the requisite examination before a board of examiners convened pursuant to Special Orders Number Six, Office of the United States Military Government in the Philippine Islands, dated February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred, and Circular Number Five, same authority, dated April first, nineteen hundred, shall not be required to undergo another examination, but shall be entitled to be registered and to receive a certificate of registration as a licentiate of medicine. The fee for such certificate shall be ten dollars: Provided further, That any person who has studied medicine in the Saint Thomas University of the city of Manila for a period of not less than two years, and has received the title of "cirujano ministrante" from said university may be registered to practice medicine in remote towns of a province where no civilian doctor of medicine or licentiate of medicine is available, upon passing a satisfactory examination before the provincial board of health for the province in which he desires to practice and paying to its provincial treasurer a fee of five dollars for a certificate of registration, which shall thereupon be issued to him by the president of the provincial board of health.