(a) The board may issue a temporary license to practice medicine to a medical school graduate, who holds a research appointment at an institution in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, in a program approved by the board, under the following terms and conditions listed in paragraphs (1) - (7) of this subsection.      
        (1) The research must be in clinical medicine and/or the basic sciences of medicine.       
        (2) The research is limited to the duties and responsibilities assigned by the applying institution to research appointee in their research capacity.       
        (3) The research appointment must be approved by the Dean of the medical school or the president of the institution.       
        (4) The research appointment must be supervised by a faculty member of the institution who has an active unrestricted Texas medical license.       
        (5) The research appointee must be of good professional character as elaborated in the Medical Practice Act.       
        (6) The Postgraduate Research Temporary License may be issued for a maximum of one year, is not renewable and cannot be used towards physician licensure requirements in Texas.       
        (7) The Postgraduate Research Temporary License holder's practice of medicine shall be limited to the confines of the institution and to the area of the research assigned by the institution to the physician.       
      (b) "Institution," as used in this section, shall mean any of the following:      
        (1) a school of medicine in this state accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation;       
        (2) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler;       
        (3) The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center;       
        (4) an institutional sponsor of a graduate medical education program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, American Osteopathic Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA); or       
        (5) a nonprofit health corporation certified under §162.001, Medical Practice Act, and affiliated with a program as described in paragraph (4) of this subsection.       
     Source Note:        The provisions of this §172.9 adopted to be effective November 7, 2004, 29 TexReg 10111; amended to be effective January 20, 2014, 39 TexReg 279