Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions

Preferred Citation

Credentials Committee records of the Virginia Board of Medicine, 1980-1985. Accession 35732, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Accession 35732 was transferred by the Dept. of Health Professions on 02/18/1998.

Historical Information

Regulation of the health professions began late in the nineteenth century. On January 31, 1884, the General Assembly passed an act creating the Board of Medical Examiners to certify physicians for practice in Virginia. In 1973 the name was changed to the Board of Medicine.

The Dept. of Health Regulatory Boards was created by an act passed by the General Assembly on March 31, 1977, to provide administrative services to the health regulatory boards of the state. The boards continue to regulate their professions through the examination, licensing, and disciplining of the practitioners of health science. In 1986, the Dept. of Health Regulatory Boards became the Dept. of Health Professions. Its mission is to enhance the delivery of safe and competent health care by licensing qualified health care professionals, enforcing standards of practice, and providing information to both practitioners and consumers of health care services.

Scope and Content

Meeting records, 1980 July-1985 Nov, document the meetings, activities, discussions, policy decisions, and recommendations of the Credentials Committee of the Board of Medicine. Meeting records contain agendas, correspondence, legislation, minutes, notes, publications, regulations and reports. Many of the records are related to the evaluation of foreign medical schools.