Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64B8 - Board of Medicine › Chapter 64B8-13 - LICENSE RENEWAL AND REACTIVATION; CONTINUING EDUCATION › Section 64B8-13.005 - Continuing Education for Biennial Renewal

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(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, all licensees shall complete two (2) hours 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 licensee's
				first renewal of licensure, the licensee must document the completion of one
				(1) 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 Florida must clearly demonstrate that the course includes Florida law on
				HIV/AIDS and its impact on testing, confidentiality of test results, and
				treatment of patients. Only Category I hours shall be accepted.
(c) Completion of two hours of continuing
				medical education relating to prevention of medical errors which includes a
				study of root cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient
				safety, 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. One hour of a
				two hour course which is provided by a facility licensed pursuant to Chapter
				395, F.S., for its employees may be used to partially meet this requirement.
				The course must include information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed
				conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Board. While
				wrong site/wrong procedure surgery continues to be the most common basis for
				quality of care violations, the following areas have been determined as the
				five most mis-diagnosed conditions: oncology related conditions;
				gastroenterology related conditions; cardiology related conditions; infectious
				disease related conditions; and neurology related conditions.
(d) A licensee who is registered with the
				United States Drug Enforcement Agency and is authorized to prescribe controlled
				substances is required to complete a 2-hour course on prescribing controlled
				substances at each biennial renewal of licensure as required by Section
				456.0301, F.S. The Board
				approves the controlled substance prescribing courses offered by the Florida
				Medical Association, the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, the Florida
				College of Emergency Physicians, Baptist Health South Florida/Quality Network,
				InforMed, Florida Psychiatric Society, Florida Osteopathic Medical Association,
				the University of Florida, NetCB, The Doctors Company, and CE Group, for the
				purpose of meeting this continuing education requirement.