After a person is admitted on an emergency examination in Vermont under 18 V.S.A. section 7508, a psychiatrist at the designated hospital examines the patient and completes this second certificate. It states whether the patient is a person in need of treatment, which determines whether the involuntary hold continues, and it supports any later application for involuntary treatment.
A psychiatrist completes the whole form, basing the opinion on their own examination plus review of the first certifying physician's assessment and the application for emergency examination.
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Second Certificate by a Psychiatrist for Emergency Exam
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Yes. Section I of the Second Certificate by a Psychiatrist has checkboxes for an in-person examination or a telemedicine examination, and the psychiatrist records the patient's current location from a list of Vermont hospitals or enters another location.
That they examined the patient that day and that, in their opinion, the patient is or is not a person in need of treatment, based on their own exam and review of the first physician's paperwork and the emergency exam application. The statements are made under the pains and penalties of perjury.