S-4.2 - Act respecting health services and social services

Section 188 Disposition versions

2017-11-10

188. Every clinical department formed in a hospital centre shall be directed by its head who must be a physician, dentist or pharmacist, except for the clinical department of laboratory medicine whose head may be a clinical biochemist.

The clinical department head shall be appointed for not more than four years by the board of directors after consulting the physicians, dentists and pharmacists and, where applicable, the clinical biochemists practising in the department, the director of professional services and the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists.

In the case of a centre designated as a university hospital centre or university institute, the board of directors must also consult the university with which the institution is affiliated according to the terms of the contract of affiliation entered into in accordance with section 110.

1991, c. 42, s. 188; 1992, c. 21, s. 70; 2017, c. 21, s. 26.

1992-10-01

188. Every clinical department formed in a hospital centre shall be directed by its head who must be a physician, dentist or pharmacist, except for the clinical biochemistry department whose head may be a clinical biochemist.

The clinical department head shall be appointed for not more than four years by the board of directors after consulting the physicians, dentists and pharmacists and, where applicable, the clinical biochemists practising in the department, the director of professional services and the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists.

In the case of a centre designated as a university hospital centre or university institute, the board of directors must also consult the university with which the institution is affiliated according to the terms of the contract of affiliation entered into in accordance with section 110.

1991, c. 42, s. 188; 1992, c. 21, s. 70.