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CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Successful completion of a minimum of 50 hours of continuing medical education satisfactory to the Board during the preceding two year period is required for the biennial renewal of a medical license.

Continuing medical education satisfactory to the Board means:

A. Continuing medical education designated as Category I by the American Medical Association or the Academy of Family Physicians, or

B. Medical education courses or lectures in medicine taught to medical students, residents, or licensed physicians, or serving as a preceptor to medical students or residents: Provided, that no more than twenty hours of the required fifty hours of continuing medical education in this category will be considered satisfactory to the Board.

C. Sitting for and passing a certification or recertification examination of one of the American Board of Medical Specialties member boards, and receiving certification or recertification from said board: Provided, that no more than twenty-five hours of the required fifty hours of continuing medical education in this category will be considered satisfactory to the Board. Certification or recertification from any board other than one of the American Board of Medical Specialties member boards does not qualify the recipient for any credit hours of continuing medical education satisfactory to the Board.

THERE ARE NO OTHER TYPES OF CATEGORIES OF CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION SATISFACTORY TO THE BOARD.

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CONTINUING PODIATRIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Successful completion of a minimum of 50 hours of continuing podiatric education satisfactory to the Board during the preceding two year period is required for the biennial renewal of a podiatric license.

Continuing podiatric education satisfactory to the Board means:

A. Take continuing podiatric education approved by the council on podiatric medical education, or

B. Take continuing podiatric education given under the auspices of the podiatry colleges in the United States, or

C. Take continuing medical education designated as Category I by the american medical association or the academy of family physicians.

D. Take continuing podiatric education given under the auspices of the West Virginia podiatric medical association.

E. Teach podiatric education courses or lectures in podiatry taught to podiatric students, residents, or licensed podiatrists, or serve as a preceptor to podiatric students or residents: Provided, that a podiatrist may not count more than twenty hours in this category toward the required fifty hours of podiatric education.

THERE ARE NO OTHER TYPES OR CATEGORIES OF CONTINUING PODIATRIC EDUCATION SATISFACTORY TO THE BOARD.

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CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

Each physician assistant as a condition of biennial renewal of a physician assistant license shall provide to the Board written documentation of participation in and successful completion during the preceding two year period of a minimum of forty (40) hours of continuing education designated as Category I by either the American Medical Association, American Academy of Physician Assistants or the Academy of Family Physicians, and sixty (60) hours of continuing education designated as Category II by the association or either academy.

Beginning July 1, 2001

Every physician, podiatrist, and physician assistant licensed by the Board must complete two hours of continuing education coursework in the subject of end-of-life care including pain management during each continuing education reporting period.   The two hours are a part of the total fifty hours, not additional hours.

Beginning July 1, 2005, the coursework requirement becomes a one-time requirement, and any licensee who has not completed the coursework requirement shall complete the coursework prior to the first license renewal.

ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL STATE BOARDS OF EXAMINATION OR REGISTRATION REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER.

 §30-1-7a. Continuing education.
            (a) Each board referred to in this chapter shall establish continuing education requirements as a prerequisite to license renewal. Each board shall develop continuing education criteria appropriate to its discipline, which shall include, but not be limited to, course content, course approval, hours required and reporting periods.
            (b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or the provision of any rule to the contrary, each person issued a license to practice medicine and surgery or a license to practice podiatry or a license as a physician assistant by the West Virginia board of medicine, each person licensed as a pharmacist by the West Virginia board of pharmacy, each person licensed to practice registered professional nursing or licensed as an advanced nurse practitioner by the West Virginia board of examiners for registered professional nurses, each person licensed as a licensed practical nurse by the West Virginia state board of examiners for licensed practical nurses and each person licensed to practice medicine and surgery as an osteopathic physician and surgeon or certified as an osteopathic physician assistant by the West Virginia board of osteopathy shall complete two hours of continuing education coursework in the subject of end-of-life care including pain management during each continuing education reporting period through the reporting period ending the thirtieth day of June, two thousand five. The two hours shall be part of the total hours of continuing education required by each board by rule and not two additional hours.
                (2) Effective as of the reporting period beginning the first day of July, two thousand five, the coursework requirement imposed by this subsection will become a one-time requirement, and all licensees who have not completed the coursework requirement shall complete the coursework requirement prior to his or her first license renewal.

 

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