New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING › Chapter 2 - ACUPUNCTURE AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS › Part 14 - EXTERNSHIPS › Section 16.2.14.12 - ISSUANCE OF EXTERNSHIP SUPERVISOR REGISTRATION

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
Upon approval of an application for externship supervisor
				  registration that fulfills the requirements listed below, the board shall issue
				  an externship supervisor registration. In the interim between regular board
				  meetings, whenever a qualified applicant for externship supervisor registration
				  has filed his or her application and complied with all other requirements of
				  this section, the board's chairman or an authorized representative of the board
				  may grant an interim temporary externship supervisor registration that will
				  suffice until the next regular meeting of the board. In no event shall the
				  externship supervisor begin supervising an extern until the externship
				  supervisor registration or interim temporary externship supervisor registration
				  is issued by the board. The application requirements for an externship
				  supervisor registration shall be receipt of the following by the board:
A. the fee for application for externship
				supervisor registration specified in 16.2.10 NMAC;
B. an application for externship supervisor
				registration that is complete and in English on a form provided by the board
				that shall include the applicant's name, address, date of birth and social
				security number, if available;
C.
				proof of five years of clinical experience; and
D. proof of maintaining a clinical facility;
				and
E. proof of appropriate
				professional and facility insurance; and
F. an affidavit as provided on the "extern
				supervisor registration application" stating that the applicant understands
				that:
(1) the scope of practice of an extern
				shall be limited to the practice of acupuncture and oriental medicine as
				defined in the act and 16.2.2 NMAC, except that the extern shall not prescribe
				or administer any herbal, nutritional, homeopathic or any other medicines or
				substances; when diagnosing and treating a patient, the extern shall practice
				only within the limits of his or her education and training; the extern shall
				possess and apply the knowledge, and use the skill and care ordinarily used by
				reasonably well-qualified doctors of oriental medicine practicing under similar
				circumstances, giving due consideration to their limited clinical experience;
				and
(2) the extern certification
				shall expire automatically 12 months after the date of issuance unless the
				certificate expires sooner for any of the following reasons:
(a) upon licensure;
(b) if the extern fails the board's clinical
				skills examination more than once; or
(c) if the extern is no longer under the
				supervision of the externship supervisor; and
(3) in no event shall an extern practice
				under extern certification(s) for more than a total of 12 months or after
				failing the board's clinical skills examination more than once; the extern
				certification is not renewable; exceptions for good cause shall not apply to
				the extern certification; and
(4)
				the extern supervisor shall not be a member of the extern's family or a member
				of the extern's household or have a conflict of interest with the extern as
				defined in
				16.2.14.19
				NMAC; and