Pennsylvania Statutes Title 71 P.S. State Government § 1023. Powers and duties

The duty of said bureau  1 shall be the determination, evaluation, standardization, and regulation of the preliminary education, both secondary and collegiate, of those to be hereafter admitted to the practice of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy in this Commonwealth; the preparation and distribution of circulars of information; the preparation of uniform blank forms; the holding of examinations at suitable times and places, to be designated by the Superintendent of Public Instruction,  2 for the determination of the fitness of applicants unable to present satisfactory certificates; the issuing of certificates to those found proficient, directly from the Department of Public Instruction;  3 the establishment of reciprocity with other States as regards preliminary education and professional licenses; the determination and publication of a standard high school course, and the compilation of a list of high schools and other secondary schools of this State conforming to said standard; and the exercising of such power as may be within the right of the Department of Public Education upon the high schools and secondary schools of the State to raise the standard of secondary education. The organization of said bureau shall be under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, That nothing in this act shall conflict with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth regulating the practice of medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy, respectively.