850-040-0210 Active and Inactive Licensee Annual Mandatory Continuing Education Requirements, Continuing Education Criteria per Subject Area (1) Active License Annual Mandatory Continuing Education Requirements: active licensees must annually submit certificates of completion for a total of thirty-two (32) hours of approved continuing education (CE) as follows: (a) Ten (10) hours of pharmacology (b) Two (2) hours of either: professional ethics, boundaries and communication, or suicide intervention and prevention (c) One (1) hour of cultural competency education every even number calendar year (d) One (1) credit hour of pain management every odd number calendar year (e) Remaining hours may be fulfilled through general education (2) Inactive License Annual Mandatory Continuing Education Requirements: inactive licensees must annually submit certificates of completion for a total of ten (10) hours of continuing education. (3) Continuing Education Criteria per Subject Area: (a) Pharmacology: structured programs for physicians with course curriculum that includes at least one of the following topic areas: (A) Properties and actions of pharmaceutical drugs and dosage forms (B) Pharmaceuticals for therapy and prevention of disease states (C) Maintain and enhance competence applicable to prescribing off the formulary compendium (D) Pharmaceutical medication error prevention, prevention of events that may cause or lead to inappropriate pharmaceutical medication use or patient harm (E) General topics related to pharmaceutical management (b) Professional Ethics, Boundaries and Communication: structured programs for physicians and health care professionals focused on ethical practices, that offer concrete advice on how health care professionals should interact with patients and address critical decisions within their practice. (c) Suicide Prevention: structured programs for physicians and health care professionals on suicide risk assessment, treatment, and management consistent with Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) (d) Cultural Competency: structured programs for physicians and health care professionals that meet the skill requirements established by the Oregon Health Authority under ORS 413.450 (Continuing education in cultural competency) (e) Pain Management: structured program for physicians and health care professionals with course curriculum that includes at least one of the following topic areas: (A) Current perspectives on the neuroscience and complex biopsychosocial nature of pain (B) International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Guidelines (C) Center for Disease Control (CDC) Opioid Prescribing Guidelines. (D) Oregon Health Authority Opioid Prescribing Guidelines (f) Professional Development: limited to (2) hours of general education annually, structured program for physicians and health care professionals with course curriculum that includes at least one of the following topic areas: (A) Licensee physical and mental wellness, managing stress and setting boundaries, implementing ADA productivity enhancers, reducing physician burn out, increasing career satisfaction, promote workplace civility and positive patient interaction. (B) Enhance practice management skills and develop practice resiliency strategies to meet health-care priorities, challenges, and crises, adapt and respond to the evolving needs of diverse patient populations . (C) B est practices for ensuring patient confidentiality and public safety in the digital clinic environment, effective charting, records access and transparency, record management, incorporating t elemedicine in primary care. (g) General Education: (A) Presented by naturopathic physicians, other physicians, or other professionally acknowledged health care educators with expertise in the subject matter (B) Support, develop, and increase the knowledge, skills, and professionalism of naturopathic physicians (C) In the scope of practice of naturopathic medicine in the State of Oregon (4) Licensees must retain proof of continuing education hours earned for a minimum of five calendar years. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 685.125 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 685.102 & ORS 413.590 History: OBNM 2-2024, amend filed 10/29/2024, effective 01/01/2025 OBNM 7-2022, amend filed 08/11/2022, effective 08/11/2022 OBNM 12-2021, amend filed 12/21/2021, effective 01/01/2022 OBNM 12-2020, amend filed 03/06/2020, effective 03/06/2020 OBNM 4-2018, amend filed 03/15/2018, effective 03/15/2018 OBNM 2-2015, f. & cert. ef. 4-17-15 BNE 6-2009, f. 11-2-09, cert. ef. 1-1-10 BNE 5-2009(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 10-13-09 thru 12-31-09 BNE 4-2009, f. & cert. ef. 10-6-09 BNE 3-2006, f. & cert. ef. 10-13-06 Renumbered from 850-010-0210, BNE 8-2005, f. & cert. ef. 10-27-05 BNE 4-2004, f. & cert. ef. 6-10-04 BNE 7-2002, f. & cert. ef. 12-10-02 BNE 6-2000, f. & cert. ef. 12-6-00 BNE 2-1998, f. 7-31-98, cert. ef. 8-3-98 Reverted to NE 1-1996, f. & cert. ef. 10-18-96 NE 2-1997(Temp), f. 12-1-97, cert. ef. 12-2-97 thru 5-31-98 NE 1-1996, f. & cert. ef. 10-18-96 NE 2-1993, f. & cert. ef. 9-23-93 NE 1-1992, f. & cert. ef. 1-15-92 NE 1-1986, f. & ef. 4-10-86 NE 2-1984, f. & ef. 2-28-84 NE 5-1980, f. & ef. 9-11-80 NE 6, f. 6-1-73, ef. 6-15-73