North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS › Chapter 32 - NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD › Subchapter B - LICENSE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE › Section .1300 - GENERAL › Section 32B .1301 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to Rules within this
					 Subchapter:
(1) ABMS - American Board
				  of Medical Specialties;
(2) ACGME -
				  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education;
(3) AMA - American Medical
				  Association;
(4) AMA Physician's
				  Recognition Award - American Medical Association recognition of achievement by
				  physicians who have voluntarily completed programs of continuing medical
				  education;
(5) AOA - American
				  Osteopathic Association;
(6) AOIA -
				  American Osteopathic Information Association;
(7) Area(s) of Practice - the medical or
				  surgical specialty in which a physician or physician assistant has practiced or
				  intends to practice;
(8) Board -The
				  North Carolina Medical Board;
(9)
				  CACMS - Committee for the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools;
(10) CAQ - Certificate of Added Qualification
				  conferred by a specialty board recognized by the ABMS, the AOA, CCFP, FRCP or
				  FRCS;
(11) CCFP - Certificant of
				  the College of Family Physicians;
(12) CFPC - College of Family Physicians of
				  Canada;
(13) COCA - Commission on
				  Osteopathic Colleges Accreditation;
(14) Core Competencies - patient care;
				  medical knowledge; communication; practice-based learning; systems-based care;
				  and professionalism as defined by the ACGME;
(15) CME - Continuing Medical
				  Education;
(16) COMLEX -
				  Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensure Examination;
(17) COMVEX - Comprehensive Osteopathic
				  Medical Variable-Purpose Examination;
(18) ECFMG - Educational Commission for
				  Foreign Medical Graduates;
(19)
				  FCVS - Federation Credential Verification Service;
(20) Fifth Pathway - an avenue for licensure
				  as defined in the AMA's Council on Medical Education Report 1-I-07;
(21) FLEX - Federation Licensing
				  Examination;
(22) FRCP - Fellowship
				  of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada;
(23) FRCS - Fellowship of the Royal College
				  of Surgeons of Canada;
(24) FSMB -
				  Federation of State Medical Boards;
(25) GME - Graduate Medical
				  Education;
(26) HIPDB - Healthcare
				  Integrity and Protection Data Bank;
(27) IMG - International Medical Graduate - a
				  physician who has graduated from a medical or osteopathic school not approved
				  by the LCME, the CACMS or COCA;
(28) Intensity of Practice - the number of
				  hours, the number of years and the responsibilities involved in a person's
				  medical practice;
(29) LCME -
				  Liaison Commission on Medical Education;
(30) LMCC - Licentiate of the Medical Council
				  of Canada;
(31) MCCQE - Medical
				  Council of Canada Qualifying Examination;
(32) Mentoring Physician - a licensed
				  physician with no public disciplinary record in the last 10 years, who is
				  certified by an American Board of Medical Specialties ("ABMS"), the American
				  Osteopathic Association ("AOA") or a board determined by the Medical Board to
				  be equivalent to the ABMS or AOA and who practices in the same or similar area
				  of practice into which the applicant for reentry is reentering. A mentoring
				  physician must have had some experience as a medical educator or mentor, and
				  shall have no conflicts of interest with the reentry applicant that would
				  impair the mentoring physician's ability to provide an objective evaluation of
				  the reentering licensee's competence;
(33) NBME - National Board of Medical
				  Examiners;
(34) NBOME - National
				  Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners;
(35) NPDB - National Practitioner Data
				  Bank;
(36) RCPSC - Royal College of
				  Physicians and Surgeons of Canada;
(37) Reentry Plan - an individualized program
				  of assessment, education and re-assessment intended to confirm the competence
				  to practice in an intended area of practice of an applicant for
				  reentry;
(38) Reentry Agreement - a
				  public, non-disciplinary agreement which incorporates by reference the Reentry
				  Plan;
(39) Reentry Period - the
				  duration of Reentry Plan;
(40) SPEX
				  - Special Purpose Examination; and
(41) USMLE - United States Medical Licensing
				  Examination.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 90-8.1;
					 90-14(a)(11a);
Eff. August 1, 2010;
Amended Eff. March 1, 2011;
Pursuant to
					 G.S.
					 150B-21.3A rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. March 1,
					 2016.