Miss. Code Ann. § 73-26-1: Miss. Code Ann. § 73-26-1

As used in this chapter:

(a) “ Board ” means the State Board of Medical Licensure.

(b) “ Physician assistant ” means a person who meets the board's criteria for licensure as a physician assistant and is licensed as a physician assistant by the board. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the licensure of anesthesiologist's assistants.

(c) “ Supervising physician ” means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds an unrestricted license from the board, and who is in the full-time practice of medicine and who has been approved by the board to supervise physician assistants.

(d) “ Supervision ” means overseeing and accepting responsibility for the medical services rendered by a physician assistant in a manner approved by the board.