Code of Maine Rules › 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › 144 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - GENERAL › Chapter 220 - Rules Relating to Radiation Protection › Part G - MEDICAL USE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL › Subpart B - GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS › Section 144-220-G-B-57 - Training for experienced radiation safety officer, teletherapy or medical physicist, authorized medical physicist, authorized user, nuclear pharmacist and authorized nuclear pharmacist

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
(1) An individual identified as a radiation
					 safety officer, a teletherapy or medical physicist, or a nuclear pharmacist on
					 an Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or an Agreement State license or a
					 permit issued by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Agreement State broad scope
					 licensee or master material license permit or by a master material license
					 permittee of broad scope as a radiation safety officer, a teletherapy or
					 medical physicist, an authorized medical physicist, a nuclear pharmacist or an
					 authorized nuclear pharmacist on or before January 14, 2019 need not comply
					 with the training requirements G.50, G.51, or G.55, respectively, except the
					 radiation safety officers and authorized medical physicists identified in this
					 paragraph must meet the training requirements in G.50.D or G.51.C, as
					 appropriate, for any material or uses for which they were not authorized prior
					 to this date.
(2) Any individual
					 certified by the American Board of Health Physics in Comprehensive Health
					 Physics; American Board of Radiology; American Board of Nuclear Medicine;
					 American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine; Board of Pharmaceutical
					 Specialties in Nuclear Pharmacy; American Board of Medical Physics in radiation
					 oncology physics; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in nuclear
					 medicine; American Osteopathic Board of Radiology; or American Osteopathic
					 Board of Nuclear Medicine on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with
					 the training requirements of G.50 to be identified as a radiation safety
					 officer or as an associate radiation safety officer on a Nuclear Regulatory
					 Commission or an Agreement State license or Nuclear Regulatory Commission
					 master material license permit for those materials and uses that these
					 individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.
(3) Any individual certified by the American
					 Board of Radiology in therapeutic radiological physics, roentgen ray and gamma
					 ray physics, x-ray and radium physics, or radiological physics, or certified by
					 the American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics, on or
					 before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training requirements for an
					 authorized medical physicist described in G.51, for those materials and uses
					 that these individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.
(4) A radiation safety officer, a medical
					 physicist, or a nuclear pharmacist, who used only accelerator-produced
					 radioactive materials, discrete sources of radium-226, or both, for medical
					 uses or in the practice of nuclear pharmacy at a Government agency or federally
					 recognized Indian Tribe before November 30, 2007 or at all other locations of
					 use before August 8, 2009, or an earlier date as noticed by the Agency, need
					 not comply with the training requirements of G.50, G.51 or G.55, respectively,
					 when performing the same uses. A nuclear pharmacist, who prepared only
					 radioactive drugs containing accelerator-produced radioactive materials, or a
					 medical physicist, who used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials, at
					 the locations and time period identified in this paragraph, qualifies as an
					 authorized nuclear pharmacist or an authorized medical physicist, respectively,
					 for those materials and uses performed before these dates for purposes of this
					 Chapter.