Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 25 - STATE BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE › Subchapter A - GENERAL › Section 25.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ACCME
-The Accreditation Council on
						Continuing Medical Education.
AMA PRA
-American Medical Association
						Physician's Recognition Award.
AOA
-The American Osteopathic
						Association.
Act
-The Osteopathic Medical Practice Act
						(63
						P. S. §§
												271.1-271.18).
Agreement of affiliation
-A written
						document evidencing the agreement between an approved hospital and an urgent
						care center, emergency center, surgicenter, office of a private practitioner or
						other health care facility for the training of osteopathic interns, residents
						or fellows.
Approved activity
-A continuing medical
						education activity accepted for AOA credit, ACCME credit or AMA PRA
						credit.
Approved graduate osteopathic medical
						training
-An approved internship or an approved residency.
Approved internship
-An osteopathic
						rotating internship program approved by the AOA and the Board.
Approved residency
-A training program
						approved by the AOA and the Board leading toward certification in a specialty
						or subspecialty.
Board
-State Board of Osteopathic
						Medicine.
Board-regulated practitioner
-An
						osteopathic physician, physician assistant, respiratory therapist, athletic
						trainer, acupuncturist, perfusionist, genetic counselor or an applicant for a
						license issued by the Board.
Bureau
-Bureau of Professional and
						Occupational Affairs of the Department of State of the Commonwealth.
Category 1 activities
-Continuing medical
						education activities approved for AOA Category 1-A credit, AOA Category 1-B
						credit, ACCME Category 1 credit or AMA PRA Category 1 credit.
Category 2 activities
-Continuing medical
						education activities approved for AOA Category 2 credit, ACCME Category 2
						credit or AMA PRA Category 2 credit.
Emergency medical services
						personnel
-Individuals who deliver emergency medical services and who
						are regulated by the Department of Health under the Emergency Medical Services
						Act (35 P. S. §§
												6921-6938).
FLEX
-The uniform written examination of
						the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, Inc.
Immediate family member
-A parent, a
						spouse, a child or an adult sibling residing in the same household.
NBOME
-The National Board of Osteopathic
						Medical Examiners.
National Board Examination
-The uniform
						written examination of the NBOME.
The provisions of this §
													25.1 amended under sections 2, 3,
						  7.1, 10(d), 13.1(a) and (d) and 16 of the Osteopathic Medical Practice Act
						  (63
						  P.S. §§
														271.2,
						  271.3,
						  271.7a,
						  271.10(d), 271.13a(a) and (d)
						  and 271.16); section 902(b) of the Health Care Services Malpractice Act
						  (40
						  P.S. §
														1301.902(b));
						  amended under section 910 of the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of
						  Error Act (40 P.S. §
														1303.910).
This section cited in 49 Pa. Code §
													25.509b (relating to approved
						  educational programs).