as may be required by t he Civil Service Law and rules. 

[2468-25.] 

An applicant for appointment who is found, upon examination, not to possess the requisite professional qualifications, shall be allowed a second examination after one year, but not a third. 

[2468-26.] 

The same rule shall apply to an officer examined for promotion to a higher grade. 

[2468-7.] 

S ECTION 781 . Disqualification for Promotion. — All appointments to the position of surgeon shall be considered probationary, and any surgeon who, upon a second examination for promotion, is found to be professionally disqualified for promotion to the next higher grade shall be honorably discharged by the Governor-General. 

Any senior surgeon who, on second examination, is found to be professionally disqualified for promotion to the next higher grade shall be debarred therefrom; but he may be continued in service as a senior surgeon, subject to successful passing of an examin ation appropriate to that grade, every five years, to determine his continuous competency to perform the duties pertaining thereto. ECaSIT 

Any medical inspector who, on a second examination, is found to be professionally disqualified for promotion to a higher grade shall be ineligible for promotion but may continue to serve in his present grade. 

[2468-28.] 

S ECTION 782 . Special Examination for Specialist.  — Any officer in the commissioned service may, upon his own application, be subjected to a special examination in any subject relating to the practice of medicine, surgery, or hygiene; and if such examinatio n demonstrates the possession by such officer of an exceptional and expert knowledge of the subject in which he is examined, such officer shall be officially designated as a specialist and, so far as the interest of the service may permit, he shall be give n assignments to duty affording opportunity for the exercise of such special knowledge. Any designation as specialist shall cease on promotion of the holder to the next higher grade, but may be revived on successfully passing another special examination in  the same or another subject. 

