64B8-13.005: Continuing Education for Biennial Renewal
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The proposed rule amendments are intended to set forth revised criteria for licensure renewal to comply with recent legislation.
SUMMARY: The proposed rule amendments set forth changes with regard to continuing education requirements for biennial renewal.
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COSTS: No Statement of Estimated Regulatory Cost was prepared.
Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing within 21 days of this notice.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 456.013(6), (7), 456.031(4), 458.309, 458.319 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 456.013(6), (7), 456.031(1)(a), (3), 458.319(4) FS.
IF REQUESTED WITHIN 21 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE, A HEARING WILL BE SCHEDULED AND ANNOUNCED IN FAW.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Larry McPherson, Jr., Executive Director, Board of Medicine/MQA, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C03, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3253.
THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:
64B8-13.005 Continuing Education for Biennial Renewal.
(1) Every physician licensed pursuant to Chapter 458, F.S., shall be required to complete 40 hours of continuing medical education courses approved by the Board in the 24 months preceding each biennial renewal period as established by the Department.
(a) As part of every third biennial renewal licensure period, For all licensees shall complete two (2) hours no more and no less than one hour shall consist of training in domestic violence which includes information on the number of patients in that professional's practice who are likely to be victims of domestic violence and the number who are likely to be perpetrators of domestic violence, screening procedures for determining whether a patient has any history of being either a victim or a perpetrator of domestic violence, and instruction on how to provide such patients with information on, or how to refer such patients to, resources in the local community, such as domestic violence centers and other advocacy groups, that provide legal aid, shelter, victim counseling, batterer counseling, or child protection services, and which is approved by any state or federal government agency, or nationally affiliated professional association, or any provider of Category I or II American Medical Association Continuing Medical Education. Home study courses approved by the above agencies will be acceptable.
(b) Upon a licensees first renewal of licensure, the licensee must document the completion of one (1) hour For all licensees one hour of Category I American Medical Association Continuing Medical Education which includes the topics of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; the modes of transmission, including transmission from healthcare worker to patient and patient to healthcare worker; infection control procedures, including universal precautions; epidemiology of the disease; related infections including TB; clinical management; prevention; and current Florida law on AIDS and its impact on testing, confidentiality of test results, and treatment of patients. Any hours of said CME may also be counted toward the CME license renewal requirement. In order for a course to count as meeting this requirement, licensees practicing in
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b), above, a physician may complete continuing education on end-of-life care and palliative health care in lieu of continuing education in HIV/AIDS or domestic violence, if that physician has completed the HIV/AIDS or domestic violence continuing education in the immediately preceding biennium. This allows for end-of-life care and palliative health care continuing education to substitute for HIV/AIDS or domestic violence continuing education in alternate biennia.
(d) All applicants for an initial license, reactivation or reinstatement of their license who obtained the required domestic violence, end of life and palliative health care, HIV/AIDS, or medical errors course for initial licensure, reactivation or reinstatement within two (2) years immediately preceding licensure renewal may use the same domestic violence, end of life palliative health care, HIV/AIDS, or medical errors hours obtained for initial licensure, reactivation or reinstatement to meet the requirements for licensure renewal.
(c) (e) No change.
(2) through (4) No change.
(5) Except for the requirements in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) above, the continuing education requirements for renewal shall not apply to a licensee during the biennium in which the licensee is first licensed in Florida, but shall apply to such licensee in every biennium thereafter.
(5) (6) No change.
(6) (7) No change.
(7) (8) No change.
(8) (9) No change.
(9) (10) No change.
(10) (11) No change.
(11) (12) No change.
Specific Authority 456.013(6), (7), 456.031(4), 458.309, 458.319 FS. Law Implemented 456.013(6), (7), 456.031(1)(a), (3), 458.319(4) FS. History -- New 9-7-86, Amended 11-17-87, 11-15-88, 1-31-90, 9-15-92, Formerly 21M-28.002, Amended 12-5-93, Formerly 61F6-28.002, Amended 3-1-95, 1-3-96, 1-26-97, Formerly 59R-13.005, Amended 5-18-99, 2-7-01, 6-4-02, 10-8-03, 5-4-04, 5-20-04, 4-5-05, 4-25-06.
