Virginia Administrative Code › Title 12 - HEALTH › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter 481 - VIRGINIA RADIATION PROTECTION REGULATIONS › Part VII - Use of Radionuclides in the Healing Arts › Article 3 - General Administrative Requirements › Section 12VAC5-481-1780 - Training for experienced radiation safety officer, teletherapy or medical physicist, authorized medical physicist, nuclear pharmacist, authorized nuclear pharmacist, and authorized user

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. The following
					 applies to individuals with experience as a radiation safety officer (RSO),
					 teletherapy or medical physicist, authorized medical physicist (AMP), nuclear
					 pharmacist, or authorized nuclear pharmacist (ANP):
1. An individual identified on an agency,
					 NRC, or agreement state license or a permit issued by the agency, the NRC, or
					 another agreement state broad scope licensee or master material license permit
					 or by a master material license permittee of broad scope as an RSO, a
					 teletherapy or medical physicist, AMP, a nuclear pharmacist, or an ANP on or
					 before January 14, 2019, need not comply with the training requirements of
					 12VAC5-481-1750,
					 12VAC5-481-1760, or
					 12VAC5-481-1770, respectively,
					 except the RSO and AMP identified in this subdivision must meet the training
					 requirements in subdivision 5 of
					 12VAC5-481-1750 or subdivision 3
					 of 12VAC5-481-1760, as appropriate,
					 for any material or uses for which they were not authorized prior to this
					 date.
2. An individual certified by
					 the American Board of Health Physics in Comprehensive Health Physics, American
					 Board of Radiology, American Board of Nuclear Medicine, American Board of
					 Science in Nuclear Medicine, Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties in Nuclear
					 Pharmacy, American Board of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology Physics,
					 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Nuclear Medicine,
					 American Osteopathic Board of Radiology, or American Osteopathic Board of
					 Nuclear Medicine on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the
					 training requirements of
					 12VAC5-481-1750 to be identified
					 as an RSO or as an associate RSO on an agency, NRC, or another agreement state
					 license or NRC master material permit for those materials and uses that these
					 individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005. Any individual certified
					 by the American Board of Radiology in therapeutic radiological physics,
					 Roentgen ray and gamma ray physics, x-ray and radium physics, or radiological
					 physics, or certified by the American Board of Medical Physics in radiation
					 oncology physics, on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the
					 training requirements for an authorized medical physicist described in
					 12VAC5-481-1760 for those
					 materials and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24,
					 2005.
3. An RSO, AMP, or ANP, who
					 used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials or discrete sources of
					 radium-226, or both, for medical uses or in the practice of nuclear pharmacy at
					 a government agency or federally recognized Indian Tribe before November 30,
					 2007, or at all other locations of use before August 8, 2009, or an earlier
					 date as noticed by the NRC, need not comply with the training requirements of
					 12VAC5-481-1750,
					 12VAC5-481-1760, or
					 12VAC5-481-1770, respectively,
					 when performing the same uses. A nuclear pharmacist, who prepared only
					 radioactive drugs containing accelerator-produced radioactive materials, or a
					 medical physicist, who used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials, at
					 the locations and time period identified in this subdivision, qualifies as an
					 authorized nuclear pharmacist or an authorized medical physicist, respectively,
					 for those materials and uses performed before these dates, for purposes of this
					 part.