Arizona Administrative Code
Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 7 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES - RADIATION CONTROL
Article 7 - MEDICAL USES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Section R9-7-712.01 - Training for Experienced Radiation Safety Officers, Teletherapy or Medical Physicists, Authorized Medical Physicists, Authorized Users, Nuclear Pharmacists, and Authorized Nuclear Pharmacists

1. An individual identified on a Department, a NRC, or another Agreement State license or a permit issued by the NRC or an Agreement State broad scope licensee or master material license permit or by a master material license permittee of broad scope as a Radiation Safety Officer, a teletherapy or medical physicist, an authorized medical physicist, a nuclear pharmacist or an authorized nuclear pharmacist on or before January 14, 2019, need not comply with the training requirements of R9-7-710, R9-7-711, or R9-7-712, respectively, except the Radiation Safety Officers and authorized medical physicists identified in this subsection must meet the training requirements in R9-7-710(B) or R9-7-711 (B), as appropriate, for any material or uses for which they were not authorized prior to January 14, 2019.

2. Any individual certified by the American Board of Health Physics in Comprehensive Health Physics; American Board of Radiology; American Board of Nuclear Medicine; American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine; Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties in Nuclear Pharmacy; American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in nuclear medicine; American Osteopathic Board of Radiology; or American Osteopathic Board of Nuclear Medicine on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training requirements of R9-7-710 to be identified as a Radiation Safety Officer or as an Associate Radiation Safety Officer on a Department, a NRC, or another Agreement State license or NRC master material license permit for those materials and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.

3. Any individual certified by the American Board of Radiology in therapeutic radiological physics, Roentgen ray and gamma ray physics, x-ray and radium physics, or radiological physics, or certified by the American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics, on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training requirements for an authorized medical physicist described in R9-7-711, for those materials and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.

4. A Radiation Safety Officer, a medical physicist, or a nuclear pharmacist, who used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials, discrete sources of radium-226, or both, for medical uses or in the practice of nuclear pharmacy at a Government agency or Federally recognized Indian Tribe before November 30, 2007, or at all other locations of use before August 8, 2009, or an earlier date as noticed by the NRC, need not comply with the training requirements of R9-7-710, R9-7-711, or R9-7-712, respectively, when performing the same uses. A nuclear pharmacist, who prepared only radioactive drugs containing accelerator-produced radioactive materials, or a medical physicist, who used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials, at the locations and during the time period identified in this subsection, qualifies as an authorized nuclear pharmacist or an authorized medical physicist, respectively, for those materials and uses performed before these dates, for the purposes of this Section.

1. Physicians, dentists, or podiatrists identified as authorized users for the medical use of byproduct material on a license issued by the Department, the NRC, or another Agreement State, a permit issued by a NRC master material licensee, a permit issued by a NRC or an Agreement State broad scope licensee, or a permit issued by a NRC master material license broad scope permittee on or before January 14, 2019, who perform only those medical uses for which they were authorized on or before January 14, 2019, need not comply with the training requirements of Article 7, Exhibit A, Groups 100 through 600.

2. Physicians, dentists, or podiatrists not identified as authorized users for the medical use of byproduct material on a license issued by the Department, the NRC, or another Agreement State, a permit issued by a NRC master material licensee, a permit issued by a NRS or an Agreement State broad scope licensee, or a permit issued in accordance with a NRC master material broad scope license on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training requirements of Article 7, Exhibit A, Groups 100 through 600 for those materials and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005, as follows:

3. Physicians, dentists, or podiatrists who used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials, discrete sources of radium-226, or both, for medical uses performed at a Government agency or Federally recognized Indian Tribe before November 30, 2007, or at all other locations of use before August 8, 2009, or an earlier date as noticed by the NRC, need not comply with the training requirements Article 7, Exhibit A, Groups 100 through 600 when performing the same medical uses. A physician, dentist, or podiatrist, who used only accelerator-produced radioactive materials, discrete sources of radium-226, or both, for medical uses at the locations and time period identified in this subsection, qualifies as an authorized user for those materials and uses performed before these dates, for the purposes of this Section.