Intern Complicity in Impaired Licensee Practice State
Class
1d3c3a4d
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InternComplicityinImpairedLicenseePracticeState
Definition
State in which an engineer intern or subordinate, fully aware that their supervising licensed engineer is medically impaired and incapable of providing adequate direction, supervision, or review, actively cooperates with that engineer in continuing to deliver engineering design services under the impaired engineer's seal — thereby becoming ethically culpable for aiding unlicensed or incompetent practice even though the intern lacks a license and cannot be held to the same legal standard as a licensed professional.
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Subclass of
Definition
State in which an engineer intern or subordinate, fully aware that their supervising licensed engineer is medically impaired and incapable of providing adequate direction, supervision, or review, actively cooperates with that engineer in continuing to deliver engineering design services under the impaired engineer's seal — thereby becoming ethically culpable for aiding unlicensed or incompetent practice even though the intern lacks a license and cannot be held to the same legal standard as a licensed professional.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer Intern C, a subordinate of Engineer B, was fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition
TTL
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rdfs:comment "State in which an engineer intern or subordinate, fully aware that their supervising licensed engineer is medically impaired and incapable of providing adequate direction, supervision, or review, actively cooperates with that engineer in continuing to deliver engineering design services under the impaired engineer's seal — thereby becoming ethically culpable for aiding unlicensed or incompetent practice even though the intern lacks a license and cannot be held to the same legal standard as a licensed professional." ;
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
1d3c3a4df42e36d0...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
16
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T02:45:19.144371+00:00
First Discovered In Case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T02:45:19.144371+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 16 Extraction