Report Title:

Medicine; Continuing Medical Education; Palliative Care

 

Description:

Directs the Hawaii medical board to require physician clinical practitioners to complete 2 hours of continuing medical education on palliative care every 4 years.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1444

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to medicine.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  By no later than July 1, 2010, the Hawaii medical board shall adopt, amend, or repeal rules, pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require physician clinical practitioners to complete two hours of continuing medical education on palliative care every four years in order to maintain licensure.  This requirement shall become effective on January 1, 2011, and not apply to non-clinical physicians.

     For the purposes of this Act, "non-clinical physicians" includes but is not limited to:

     (1)  Medical examiners;

     (2)  Nuclear medicine doctors;

     (3)  Pathologists;

     (4)  Podiatrists;

     (5)  Public health physicians;

     (6)  Sports medicine physicians; and

     (7)  Strictly administrative physicians.

     SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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