California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 4 - State Board of Chiropractic Examiners › Article 6 - Continuing Education › Section 361 - Continuing Education Requirements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For purposes of this section,
				"implementation date" means two years following June 8, 2011.
(b) For license renewals that expire on or
				after the implementation date, the number of required hours of continuing
				education courses shall be twenty-four (24). For license renewals that expire
				prior to the implementation date, the number of required hours of continuing
				education courses shall be twelve (12).
(c) For license renewals that expire on or
				after the implementation date, a maximum of twelve (12) continuing education
				hours may be completed through distance learning as defined in Section
				363.1. For license renewals that
				expire prior to the implementation date, a maximum of six (6) continuing
				education hours may be completed through distance learning as defined in
				Section 363.1.
(d) Any continuing education hours
				accumulated before June 8, 2011 that meet the requirements in effect on the
				date the hours were accumulated, will be accepted by the board for license
				renewals.
(e) On or after the
				implementation date, licensees shall complete a minimum of two (2) hours in
				subdivision (g)(11) -- Ethics and Law, a minimum of four (4) hours in any one
				of, or a combination of, the subject areas specified in subdivision (g)(3) --
				History Taking and Physical Examination Procedures, subdivision (g)(5) --
				Chiropractic Adjustive Techniques or Chiropractic Manipulation Techniques, or
				subdivision (g)(10) -- Proper and Ethical Billing and Coding.
(f) With the exception of the mandatory hours
				referenced in subdivision (e), the remaining eighteen (18) hours of additional
				continuing education requirements may be met by taking courses in any of the
				subject areas listed in subdivision (g) or courses taken pursuant to
				subdivision (h). The eighteen (18) hours may include any combination of
				continuing education courses in subject areas specified in either subdivision
				(g) or approved by agencies specified in subdivision (h). By way of example, a
				licensee may take eight (8) hours of continuing education courses in subject
				areas listed in subdivision (g), that are approved by the board, and ten (10)
				hours of continuing education courses that are approved by the California
				Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers Compensation pursuant
				to subparagraph (1) of subdivision (h).
(g) Courses approved by the board shall be
				limited to the following subject areas:
1.
				Philosophy of chiropractic, including the historical development of
				chiropractic as an art and science and health care approach; the vertebral
				subluxation complex and somato-visceral reflexes including their relationships
				between disease and health; and other chiropractic theory and
				philosophy.
2. Instruction in basic
				sciences of anatomy, histology, neurology, physiology, nutrition, pathology,
				biochemistry or toxicology.
3.
				Instruction in various basic to comprehensive history taking and physical
				examination procedures, including but not limited to orthopedic, neurological
				and general diagnosis related to evaluation of the neuro-musculoskeletal
				systems, and includes general diagnosis and differential diagnosis of all
				conditions that affect the human body.
4. Diagnostic testing procedures,
				interpretation and technologies that aid in differential diagnosis of all
				conditions that affect the human body.
5. Chiropractic adjustive techniques or
				chiropractic manipulation techniques.
6. Pain management theory, including, but not
				limited to, current trends in treatment and instruction in the physiology and
				anatomy of acute, sub-acute and chronic pain.
7. Physiotherapy.
8. Instruction in Manipulation Under
				Anesthesia including the safe handling of patients under anesthesia.
9. Instruction in the aspects of special
				population care, including, but not limited to, geriatric, pediatric, and
				athletic care as related to the practice of chiropractic.
10. Instruction in proper and ethical billing
				and coding, including accurate and effective record keeping and documentation
				of evaluation, treatment and progress of a patient. This is not to include
				practice building or patient recruitment/retention or business techniques or
				principles that teach concepts to increase patient visits or patient fees per
				case.
11. Ethics and law: including
				but not limited to: truth in advertising; professional boundaries; mandatory
				reporting requirements for child abuse/neglect, elder abuse/neglect; spousal or
				cohabitant abuse/neglect; sexual boundaries between patient and doctors; review
				of the specific laws, rules and regulations related to the practice of
				chiropractic in the State of California.
12. Adverse event avoidance, including
				reduction of potential malpractice issues.
13. Pharmacology, including side effects,
				drug interactions and the pharmodynamics of various commonly prescribed and
				over-the-counter drugs; drug reactions and interactions with herbs, vitamins
				and nutritional supplements; blood and urinalysis testing used in the diagnosis
				and detection of disease, including use of and interpretation of drug testing
				strips or kits utilizing urinalysis, saliva, hair and nail clippings.
14. A licensee may earn up to a maximum of
				two (2) hours of continuing education credit in cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
				basic life support or use of an automated external defibrillator.
15. Board Meeting: A licensee may earn a
				maximum of four (4) hours of continuing education credit per renewal period for
				attending a full board meeting that includes the hearing of cases related to
				petitioners seeking the reinstatement of revoked licenses or early termination
				of probationary licenses. A petitioner may not earn any continuing education
				hours for attending a board meeting on the same day in which said petitioner's
				hearing is conducted. The attendance of a licensee at a board meeting under
				this subparagraph shall be monitored and confirmed by board staff designated by
				the Executive Officer.
16. Any of
				the following as related to the practice of chiropractic:
(A) Principles of practice.
(B) Wellness. (prevention, health
				maintenance)
(C)
				Rehabilitation.
(D) Public
				health.