Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64B8 - Board of Medicine › Chapter 64B8-30 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT › Section 64B8-30.005 - 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 (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.
(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.