Requires a physician, upon the renewal of his or her professional license, to submit to the board of regents that he or she has attended and completed a course of continuing education in professional medical competency approved by such board; establishes minimum standards for such continuing education program; establishes minimum standards for continuing education courses; requires medical school students to complete a course of study in medical risk management.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to imposing certain
education requirements upon physicians as a condition for renewal of
their professional license; to amend the public health law, in
relation to directing the commissioner of health to develop and offer
a course in medical risk management as part of such requirement; and
making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6524 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 (2-a) Risk management and continuing education: (a) on and after
4 November first, two thousand eleven, every renewal of a physician's
5 license shall be conditioned upon the licensee obtaining and submitting
6 to the board proof that, within the three year period immediately
7 preceding such renewal period, he or she has attended and successfully
8 completed a course or courses of continuing education in professional
9 medical competency approved by the board as to method, content and
10 supervision. Such course or courses shall consist of at least sixty
11 hours of classroom instruction, five hours of which shall be dedicated
12 to medical risk management as developed by the department of health
13 pursuant to subdivision twenty-eight of section two hundred six of the
14 public health law. In establishing the requirements for the continuing
15 education course or courses, other than for medical risk management, the
16 board shall consider and may permit equivalent national or state educa-
17 tional courses of instruction including but not limited to those offered
18 by a medical society, medical specialty board or the department of
19 health. Each course shall, however, be presented in an appropriate
20 classroom setting, have an established curriculum and properly prepared
21 written materials of the subject matter which shall be distributed as
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 part of the course and be taught by a qualified faculty. Credit shall be
2 awarded on the basis of one hour for each sixty minutes of actual
3 attendance and records shall be maintained of attendance at each session
4 which shall be transmitted to the board at the conclusion of the course;
5 (b) on and after November first, two thousand eleven no physician
6 shall be initially licensed unless he or she has successfully completed
7 a course in medical risk management, either as part of his or her
8 medical school education or as developed by the department of health
9 pursuant to subdivision twenty-eight of section two hundred six of the
10 public health law;
11 § 2. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
12 subdivision 28 to read as follows:
13 28. The commissioner, with the cooperation of the state board for
14 medicine shall develop a course of instruction in medical risk manage-
15 ment to be provided to students in medical school and to physicians as
16 part of licensing requirements pursuant to subdivision two-a of section
17 sixty-five hundred twenty-four of the education law.
18 § 3. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much
19 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of
20 health from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the
21 credit of the state purposes account not otherwise appropriated for
22 services and expenses of the department of health for the purposes of
23 carrying out the provisions of this act. Such sum shall be payable on
24 the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or
25 approved by the commissioner of health, or his or her duly designated
26 representative in the manner provided by law. No expenditure shall be
27 made from this appropriation until a certificate of approval of avail-
28 ability shall have been issued by the director of the budget and filed
29 with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the chairperson of the
30 senate finance committee and the chairperson of the assembly ways and
31 means committee. Such certificate may be amended from time to time by
32 the director of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be
33 filed with the state comptroller, the chairperson of the senate finance
34 committee and the chairperson of the assembly ways and means committee.
35 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
