Prohibits a medical doctor from stating that he or she is board certified or eligible for certification by a private or public board or parent association unless the board or association is an American Board of Medical Specialities member board, or a member board of the American Osteopathic Association, or is a board or association with equivalent requirements approved by that physician and surgeon's licensing board, or is a board or association with an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved postgraduate training program that provides complete training in that specialty or subspecialty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3852
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 7, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. OPPENHEIMER, DIAZ, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher
Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to statements of special-
ty by a physician
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6527 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. A licensed physician may include a statement that he or she limits
4 his or her practice to specific fields, but may only include a statement
5 that he or she is certified or eligible for certification by a private
6 or public board or parent association if that board or association is an
7 American Board of Medical Specialties member board or a member board of
8 the American Osteopathic Association, a board or association with equiv-
9 alent requirements approved by that physician and surgeon's licensing
10 board, or a board or association with an Accreditation Council for Grad-
11 uate Medical Education approved postgraduate training program that
12 provides complete training in that specialty or subspecialty.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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