Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64B15 - Board of Osteopathic Medicine › Chapter 64B15-6 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT › Section 64B15-6.0035 - Physician Assistant Licensure Renewal and Reactivation

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) A Physician
				Assistant must renew his licensure on a biennial basis. Upon request by the
				Board or Department, the licensee must submit satisfactory documentation of
				compliance with the requirements set forth below.
(2) Requirements for Renewal.
(a) Completion of the Physician Assistant
				licensure renewal application on the appropriate form provided by the
				Department.
(b) Completion of 100
				hours of Continuing Medical Education in the previous two (2) years or
				documentation that the licensee is certified at the time of renewal by the
				National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. A minimum of 50
				hours must be Category I Continuing Medical Education approved by the American
				Academy of Physician Assistants, the Accreditation Council for Continuing
				Medical Education, the American Medical Association, the American Osteopathic
				Association Council on Continuing Medical Education, or the American Academy of
				Family Physicians. The remaining 50 hours may be Category II Continuing Medical
				Education. If not NCCPA certified, the Physician Assistant must be able to
				produce evidence of the 100 hours of reported CME for the relevant
				biennium.
(c) 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.
(d) Upon a licensee's first renewal of
				licensure, the licensee must document the completion of 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 requirements. In order for a course to count as meeting this
				requirement, licensees practicing in Florida must clearly demonstrate that the
				course includes Florida law in HIV/AIDS and its impact on testing,
				confidentiality of test results, and treatment of patients. Only Category I
				hours shall be accepted.
(e)
				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.