Requires the department of health to develop, maintain, and distribute to practicing and licensed physicians in the state a resource library related to continuing medical education and training opportunities regarding nutrition.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4401--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. WEBB, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MAY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
-- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
tee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to physician course-
work or training in nutrition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 264 to read as follows:
3 § 264. Provision of information related to coursework and training in
4 nutrition. 1. The department shall develop, maintain, and distribute to
5 licensed physicians in the state a resource library related to continu-
6 ing medical education courses and training opportunities regarding
7 nutrition, which may include but not be limited to plant-based nutri-
8 tion, clinically proven methods for the prevention, reversal, and treat-
9 ment of diet-related illnesses, and informational resources regarding
10 racial disparities in outcomes for diet-related diseases.
11 2. The resource library shall be made publicly available on the
12 department's website, and shall be updated and redistributed no less
13 frequently than every two years via email.
14 3. In compiling such resources, the department shall consult with
15 organizations representative of professions, institutions of higher
16 education, and those with expertise in nutrition and the prevention,
17 reversal, and treatment of diet-related illnesses.
18 4. The department shall conduct a follow-up survey three years after
19 the first distribution of the resource library to ascertain what propor-
20 tion of physicians in the state voluntarily enrolled in nutrition
21 continuing medical education courses and trainings to determine best
22 practices for delivering information about the availability of such
23 courses and trainings. The department shall make a report on the results
24 of such survey available to the public on the department's website.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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