{"data":{"id":"us-ca/wic-4305","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"WIC § 4305","heading":"","body":"(a) Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director, the medical director of a state hospital shall be responsible for the planning, development, direction, management, supervision, and evaluation of medical care provided.\n(b) A medical director of a state hospital shall be a physician who has passed, or shall pass, an examination for a license to practice medicine in California and shall be a qualified specialist in a branch of medicine that includes diseases affecting the brain and nervous system. The medical director of a state hospital shall be well qualified by training or experience to have proven skills in mental hospital program administration.","path":["Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC","DIVISION 4. MENTAL HEALTH [4000. - 4390.]","PART 2. ADMINISTRATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY DISORDERED [4100. - 4336.]","CHAPTER 3. Officers and Employees [4300. - 4321.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"753eaacb16e88431a73ebde038129c44073b664e1d18d08c6008c8978d1b172d","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/wic-4304","next":"us-ca/wic-4306"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}