New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING › Chapter 4 - CHIROPRACTIC PRACTITIONERS › Part 17 - SUPERVISION OF INTERNS › Section 16.4.17.8 - SUPERVISION OF INTERNS PRE AND POST

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. The purpose for the intern program in New
				Mexico shall be to safely complete advanced training for the under graduate and
				graduate chiropractic intern in the areas including, but not limited to,
				history taking, exams, imaging procedures, proper shielding and radiation
				monitoring procedures and interpretation, patient report of findings, treatment
				recommendations, treatment room control, staff management, general clinic
				policies, problem solving skills, team concepts, goal setting, administrative
				skills, and other training the doctor may feel appropriate to complete the
				intern's advanced chiropractic training. This purpose enhances the professional
				training of the intern, the chiropractic college curriculum, the teaching
				skills of the doctor, the professional status of the profession of chiropractic
				and the professional standard of chiropractic health care available to New
				Mexico consumers.
B. Supervising
				doctor must have a current New Mexico license in "good standing" with the board
				and have been in active practice for at least three years.
C. Supervising doctor must have written
				verification from the college that intern or unlicensed graduate of a council
				on chriopractic education (CCE), or board approved equivalent thereof,
				accredited chiropractic college sanctioned intern program, and the doctor must
				assure compliance to the guidelines of the intern program.
D. Supervising doctor must personally train
				intern in chiropractic procedure.
E. Supervising doctor must be physically in
				the same building and immediately available in order for the intern to adjust
				any patient.
F. Public must be
				informed that the intern is an "intern chiropractor, not licensed in the
				state", and must sign an informed consent document approved by the board to
				this effect.
G. The supervising
				doctor must consult with intern prior to the intern's initial treatment of any
				patient.
H. Supervising doctor must
				continue to supervise progress of the patient and must personally treat the
				patient at least every third visit, or at any time there is a significant
				change in the patient's condition.
I. Supervising doctor may allow intern to
				assist in various exams and therapies after being trained and cleared by the
				supervising doctor on proper chiropractic procedures.
J. The supervising doctor must inform the
				college and the board if the intern is deemed professionally incompetent in
				diagnosis or treatment or if the intern has other personal habits (alcoholism,
				drug addiction, moral turpitude, etc.) that would be unsafe for the
				public.
K. A supervising doctor may
				not supervise more than two interns at one time. The board must approve the
				training of more than four interns in any individual or group practice at the
				same time.
L. Supervising doctor
				must register with the New Mexico board of chiropractic examiners the interns'
				names, the college they are from, and the term of the internship, and provide
				proof of malpractice insurance for the supervising doctor in minimum amount of
				$100,000 per person - $300,000 per occurrence coverage, at least 15 days before
				the first day of the internship.
M.
				Supervising doctor must sign an affadavit agreeing to abide by the rule as set
				forth in 16.4.17 NMAC.
N. The board
				is to be sent a copy of any regular report sent to the college involving the
				intern at the time the report is sent to the college.