Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 2150 - State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts › Chapter 2 - Licensing of Physicians and Surgeons › Section 20 CSR 2150-2.001 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines terms used in Chapter 334, RSMo,
				  and this chapter.
(1) American
				Specialty Board-any specialty board formally recog- nized by the American Board
				of Medical Specialties or the American Osteopathic Association.
(2) Applicant-a person applying for a license
				as a physician and sur- geon or an assistant physician pursuant to Chapter 334,
				RSMo, and these rules.
(3) Approved
				medical school-a medical school accredited by the Liaison Commission on Medical
				Education of the American Medical Association or the American Osteopathic
				Association's Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation, or other medical
				school pro- gram that enforces requirements of four (4) terms of thirty-two
				(32) weeks for actual instruction in each term, including, in addition to class
				work, such experience in operative and hospital work during the last two (2)
				years of instruction as is required by the American Medical Association and the
				American Osteopathic Association.
(4) Board approved medical licensing
				examination-the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), or its
				successor, or the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Exam (COMLEX), or
				its successor.
(5) Collaborative
				practice arrangement-written agreements, jointly agreed upon protocols or
				standing orders, all of which shall be in writing, for the delivery of health
				care services.
(6) Emergency
				situation-a situation in which medical care is required to prevent loss of life
				or to mitigate injury and which does not arise in the course of a person's
				usual employment.
(7) Expired-a
				license that is not renewed by its expiration date.
(8) Extenuating circumstances-the
				circumstances under which an ordinary prudent person would not have timely
				renewed his or her license. Failure to receive a renewal notice is not an
				extenuating cir- cumstance.
(9)
				Hospitals approved by the board-all hospitals who are part of a residency
				training program approved and accredited to teach graduate medical education by
				the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the American
				Medical Association or the Program and Trainee Review Council of the American
				Osteopathic Association.
(10)
				Licensee-a person who holds a physician and surgeon or assis- tant physician
				license issued pursuant to Chapter 334, RSMo.
(11) Medically underserved area-
(A) An area in this state with a medically
				underserved population;
(B) An area
				in this state designated by the United States Secretary of Health and Human
				Services as an area with a shortage of personal health services;
(C) A population group designated by the
				United States Secretary of Health and Human Services as having a shortage of
				personal health services;
(D) An
				area designated under state or federal law as a medically underserved
				community; or
(E) An area that the
				Department of Health and Senior Services considers to be medically underserved
				based on relevant demograph- ic, geographic, and environmental
				factors.