Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 68 > Part 3 - Licensing

• ACGME: means the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education of the American Medical Association. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• AOA: means the American Osteopathic Association. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Associate physician: means an individual licensed under Section 58-68-302. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Board: means the Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon's Licensing Board created in Section 58-68-201. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Collaborative practice arrangement: means the arrangement described in Section 58-68-807. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Diagnose: means :

  (a)	to examine in any manner another person, parts of a person's body, substances, fluids, or materials excreted, taken, or removed from a person's body, or produced by a person's body, to determine the source, nature, kind, or extent of a disease or other physical or mental condition;

  (b)	to attempt to conduct an examination or determination described under Subsection (13)(a);

  (c)	to hold oneself out as making or to represent that one is making an examination or determination as described in Subsection (13)(a); or

  (d)

  to make an examination or determination as described in Subsection (13)(a) upon or from information supplied directly or indirectly by another person, whether or not in the presence of the person making or attempting the diagnosis or examination. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Medical assistant: means an unlicensed individual who may perform tasks as described in Subsection 58-68-305(6). See Utah Code 58-68-102 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Physician: means both physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-67-301, Utah Medical Practice Act, and osteopathic physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-68-301, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Practice of osteopathic medicine: means : (i)  to diagnose, treat, correct, administer anesthesia, or prescribe for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, deformity, pain, or other condition, physical or mental, real or imaginary, or to attempt to do so, by any means or instrumentality, which in whole or in part is based upon emphasis of the importance of the musculoskeletal system and manipulative therapy in the maintenance and restoration of health, by an individual in Utah or outside of the state upon or for any human within the state; (ii)  when a person not licensed as a physician directs a licensee under this chapter to withhold or alter the health care services that the licensee has ordered; (iii)  to maintain an office or place of business for the purpose of doing any of the acts described in Subsection (19)(a)(i) or (ii) whether or not for compensation; or (iv)  to use, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human diseases or conditions, in any printed material, stationery, letterhead, envelopes, signs, or advertisements, the designation "doctor" "doctor of osteopathic medicine" "osteopathic physician" "osteopathic surgeon" "osteopathic physician and surgeon" "Dr. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way. State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Unprofessional conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-68-502 and as may be further defined by division rule. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5