Removes the requirement that postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience required for licensure as a dentist needs to be clinically-based.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9967
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to dental residencies
qualified for licensure
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6604 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 726 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (3) Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and in
5 accordance with the commissioner's regulations, provided that such expe-
6 rience shall consist of satisfactory completion of a [clinically-based]
7 postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program, of
8 at least one year's duration, in a hospital or dental facility accred-
9 ited for teaching purposes by a national accrediting body approved by
10 the department, provided, further that any such residency program shall
11 include a formal outcome assessment evaluation of the resident's compe-
12 tence to practice dentistry acceptable to the department;
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15406-01-2
