New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 35 - BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS › Subchapter 13 - PERFUSIONISTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE › Section 13:35-13.16 - Continuing education

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A licensee applying for biennial license renewal shall complete, during the preceding biennial period, 30 continuing education (CE) credits as specified under this section. Applicants for initial licensure are exempt from the continuing education requirements of this section for the initial biennial period of licensure.
(b) Each licensee shall confirm on the application for biennial licensure renewal that he or she has completed 30 continuing education credits. The Committee may conduct random audits to determine licensee compliance with continuing education requirements.
(c) A licensee who completes credit hours in excess of the 30 credits required may apply no more than 15 of those credits to the continuing education requirement for the following biennial period only.
(d) A licensee who is required to complete remedial continuing education pursuant to Board or Committee action shall not receive credit for such imposed continuing education toward the mandatory 30 credits of biennial licensure period.
(e) The Committee may direct a licensee to complete continuing education credits to correct a deficiency in the licensee's continuing education requirement.
(f) A licensee may obtain continuing education credits from the following:
1. Successful completion of programs, courses or seminars approved by the Committee, pursuant to (j) below. The Committee shall approve only such continuing education programs as are available to all perfusionists in this State on a reasonable, non-discriminatory basis. The Committee shall maintain a list of all approved programs, courses and lectures at the Committee office and shall furnish this information to licensees upon request;
2. Courses approved by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (ABCP);
3. Post-graduate courses at Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) approved perfusion schools;
4. Courses offered in Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Life Support (PALS) and/or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and courses offered by the American Heart Association (AHA), the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Academy of Cardiovascular Perfusion (AACP), the American Society of Extracorporeal Technology (AmSect), the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), the American Society of Blood Banks, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New Jersey State Perfusion Society and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the Cardiovascular Research Education Foundation (CREF);
5. Medical science courses relevant to the scope of practice of perfusion, as defined in 13:35-13.2;
6. Professional presentations consisting of new courses specifically related to perfusion. For purposes of this paragraph, "new" means a course which the licensee has never taught before in an educational setting;
7. Authorship of peer reviewed textbooks, articles or manuals specifically related to perfusion; and
8. Videotaped, teleconference and Internet courses related to the practice of perfusion, with verification by the course provider that the course was monitored and successfully completed by the licensee.