Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 18 - STATE BOARD OF › Subchapter M - REGISTRATION OF NATUROPATHIC DOCTORS › Section 18.902 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Authorization to practice
-A license,
						registration, certificate, permit, authorization or approval issued by a state
						or Federal agency which authorizes the holder to advertise, engage in, or both
						advertise and engage in the practice of a profession or occupation.
CNME-Council on Naturopathic Medical
						Education
-The accrediting body which grants candidacy and
						accreditation to programs of naturopathic medicine for the education of
						naturopathic doctors.
Marketing activity
-A communication about
						a service or merchandise that encourages recipients of the communication to
						purchase or use the merchandise or service. For purposes of this chapter, the
						term does not include a service from or referral to another health care
						practitioner.
Merchandise
-Items that can be sold
						including vitamins, supplements, food, food extracts, homeopathic remedies,
						botanical medicines and herbs.
NABNE-North American Board of Naturopathic
						Examiners
-The organization which administers the NPLEX.
NDRA
-The Naturopathic Doctor
						Registration Act (63 P.S. §§ 272.101-272.301).
NPLEX-Naturopathic Physicians Licensing
						Examinations
-The licensing examination accepted by the Board as a
						prerequisite to registration, consisting of Part I- Biomedical Science
						Examination and Part II-Core Clinical Science Examination, or its successor
						recognized by the Board.
Natural therapies
-Treatment of an
						individual through the use of substances in which the active ingredient is
						derived from plant, mineral or fungal sources, or any substance found in
						nature, and which may also contain common pharmaceutical excipients, and
						nonprescription drugs as defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
						(52 Stat. 1040, 21 U.S.C.
						§§
												301-399g).
Naturopathic doctor
-An individual who
						holds an active registration issued by the Board under the NDRA.
Naturopathic medicine
-Naturopathic
						physical medicine, natural therapies, naturopathic counseling or a combination
						thereof, to support and stimulate the individual's self-healing
						processes.
Naturopathic physical medicine
-The use
						of the physical agents of air, water, heat, cold, sound and light, and the
						physical modalities of electrotherapy, biofeedback, diathermy, ultraviolet
						light, ultrasound, hydrotherapy and exercise, including naturopathic
						manipulation and mobilization therapy.
Naturopathic service
-Providing or
						performing naturo-pathic physical medicine, natural therapies, naturopathic
						counseling or a combination thereof, to support and stimulate an individual's
						self-healing processes.
Regionally accredited or pre-accredited college
						or university
-A college or university which is accredited or
						pre-accredited by one of the following:
(1) Accrediting Commission of Career Schools
					 and Colleges.
(2) Accrediting
					 Council for Continuing Education and Training.
(3) Accrediting Council for Independent
					 Colleges and Schools.
(4) Council
					 on Occupational Education.
(5)
					 Distance Education Accrediting Commission.
(6) Higher Learning Commission.
(7) Middle States Commission on Higher
					 Education.
(8) Middle States
					 Commission on Secondary Schools.
(9) New England Commission of Higher
					 Education.
(10) New York State
					 Board of Regents and the Commissioner of Education.
(11) Northwest Commission on Colleges and
					 Universities.
(12) Southern
					 Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges.
(13) Western Association of Schools and
					 Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.
(14) Western Association of Schools and
					 Colleges, Senior Colleges and University Commission.
(15) Other regional or National accrediting
					 agency which has been recognized by the United States Department of Education
					 as being a reliable authority concerning the quality of education or training
					 offered by the institutions of higher education or higher education programs
					 they accredit.