Alabama Administrative Code › Title 540 - ALABAMA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS › Chapter 540-X-1 - ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION › Section 540-X-1-.07 - Powers And Duties Of The Board

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
The Board is authorized to:
(a) Adopt and promulgate rules and
			 regulations and to do such other acts as may be necessary to carry into effect
			 the duties and powers which accrue to the Board under laws now in force or
			 which may hereafter be in force.
(b) Issue certificates of qualification to
			 the Medical Licensure Commission for applicants meeting the statutory
			 qualifications for licensure.
(c)
			 Commence and maintain proceedings to restrain the unlawful practice of
			 medicine.
(d) Serve as the
			 certifying board for physicians applying for an Alabama Controlled Substances
			 Certificate.
(e) Carry out the
			 provisions of law relating to assistants to physicians.
(f) Administer and/or approve an examination
			 in certain specified branches of medical learning.
(g) Keep complete records of all examinations
			 held by the Board.
(h) Keep
			 complete minutes of all the Board's proceedings.
(i) Keep records of all reports of claims or
			 actions for negligence in the performance of a licensee's professional services
			 and review the reports annually.
(j) Approve, jointly, with the Alabama Board
			 of Nursing, qualified applicants for collaborative practice as Certified
			 Registered Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives.
(k) Record and maintain a permanent file on
			 all professional corporations incorporated by physicians and osteopaths.
(l) Administer and enforce the
			 provisions of the Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Program.
(m) Furnish all personnel and facilities
			 necessary to administer and enforce the provisions of law relating to the
			 Medical Licensure Commission.
(n)
			 Employ investigators, attorneys, agents and other employees necessary to aid
			 the Medical Licensure Commission in the administration and enforcement of the
			 sections of law applicable to said commission.
(o) Certify applications of Alabama licenses
			 for reciprocity in other states.
(p) Promote continuing medical education of
			 all physicians and osteopaths licensed by the commission.
(q) The Board on its own motion may
			 investigate any evidence which appears to show that a physician or osteopath
			 holding a certificate of qualification to practice medicine or osteopathy in
			 Alabama is or may be guilty of any of the acts, offenses or conditions set out
			 in
Code of Ala. 1975
, §
								34-24-360.
(r) Request that the Medical Licensure
			 Commission temporarily suspend a license to practice medicine when the
			 statutory grounds for temporary suspension are present.
(s) Accept surrender of, or grant the request
			 for restrictions on, a certificate of qualification.
(t) Submit recommendations to the Medical
			 Licensure Commission for disposition of complaints against physicians found to
			 be in violation of any of the specified grounds for suspension or revocation of
			 a license to practice medicine.
Authors:
Alabama Board of Medical
				  Examiners
Statutory Authority:
Code of Ala.
				  1975
, §§ 10-4-229, 10-4-230,
				  20-2-50,
				  20-2-52,
				  20-2-53,
				  20-2-54,
				  20-2-113,
				  34-19-3,
				  34-19-10,
				  34-24-52,
				  34-24-53,
				  34-24-56,
				  34-24-70,
				  34-24-71, 34-24-72,
				  34-24-73,
				  34-24-75, 34-24-76, 34-24-77,
				  34-24-78, 34-24-290,
				  34-24-292,
				  34-24-293,
				  34-24-312,
				  34-24-313,
				  34-24-330,
				  34-24-331,
				  34-24-336,
				  34-24-361.