CHAPTER 162
H.P. 301 - L.D. 398
An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Medical Licensure Laws
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §3270-C, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2003, c. 601, §3, is further amended to read:
1. Grounds. The sanctions of section 3282-A apply to a physician assistant who has:.
A-1. Claimed to be legally licensed or allowed another to represent that physician assistant as holding a valid license;
B. Performed otherwise than at the direction and under the supervision of a physician licensed by this board;
C. Been delegated and performed a task or tasks beyond the physician assistant's competence; and
D. Administered, dispensed or prescribed a controlled substance otherwise than as authorized by law.
Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §3271, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2003, c. 601, §4, is further amended to read:
2. Postgraduate training. Each applicant who has graduated from an accredited medical school on or after January 1, 1970 but before July 1, 2004 must have satisfactorily completed at least 24 months in a graduate educational program accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Canadian Medical Association or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Notwithstanding other requirements of postgraduate training, an applicant is eligible for licensure when the candidate has satisfactorily graduated from a combined postgraduate training program in which each of the contributing programs is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and the applicant is eligible for accreditation by the American Board of Medical Specialties in both specialties. Each applicant who has graduated from an accredited medical school prior to January 1, 1970 must have satisfactorily completed at least 12 months in a graduate educational program accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Canadian Medical Association or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Each applicant who has graduated from an accredited medical school on or after July 1, 2004 or an unaccredited medical school must have satisfactorily completed at least 36 months in a graduate educational program accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Canadian Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or the Royal Colleges of England, Ireland or Scotland. An applicant who has completed 24 months of postgraduate training and has received an unrestricted endorsement from the director of an accredited graduate education program in the State is considered to have satisfied the postgraduate training requirements of this subsection if the applicant continues in that program and completes 36 months of postgraduate training. Notwithstanding this subsection, an applicant who is board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties is deemed to meet the postgraduate training requirements of this subsection.
Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §3272, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §209, is repealed.
Sec. 4. 32 MRSA §3273, as amended by PL 1991, c. 425, §15, is repealed.
Sec. 5. 32 MRSA §3277, as amended by PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §213, is further amended to read:
A physician who is qualified under section 3275 may, at the discretion of the board, be temporarily licensed as a camp physician so that the physician may care for the campers in that particular camp for which the physician was hired and retained as a camp physician. That physician is entitled to practice only on patients in the camp. The temporary license must be obtained each year. Application for this temporary license must be made in the same form and manner as for regular licensure. An examination may not be exacted from applicants for these temporary licenses. The fee for temporary licensure may not be more than $100 $400 annually.
Sec. 6. 32 MRSA §3278, as amended by PL 2003, c. 601, §6, is further amended to read:
§3278. Emergency 100-day license
A physician who presents a current active unconditioned license from another United States licensing jurisdiction and who can provide reasonable proof of meeting qualifications for licensure in this State must be issued a license to serve as locum tenens temporarily for declared emergencies in the State or for other appropriate reasons as determined by the board. The locum tenens license is effective for not more than 100 days. The fee for this locum tenens license may be not more than $400.
Sec. 7. 32 MRSA §3280-A, sub-§3, ¶A, as amended by PL 1999, c. 685, §11, is further amended to read:
A. The board may charge a license renewal application fee of not more than $500 to all applicants for license renewal who have not attained 70 years of age on the date renewal becomes due.
Effective September 17, 2005.
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