California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 13.7 - Acupuncture
Article 8 - Continuing Education
Section 1399.483 - Approval of Continuing Education Courses
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) Only a provider may obtain approval to offer continuing education courses.
(b) The content of all courses of continuing education submitted for Board approval shall be relevant to the practice of acupuncture and Asian medicine and shall fall within the following two (2) categories:
(c) Each provider shall include, for each course offered, a method by which the course participants evaluate the following:
(d) Courses designed to be completed by an individual on an independent or home study basis shall not exceed 50% of the required continuing education hours.
(e) A provider is prohibited from selling, advertising, or promoting any named brand product or service during a course. A provider shall ensure that any discussion of a named product or service is objectively selected and presented with favorable and unfavorable information and balanced discussion of prevailing information on the product, competing products, alternative treatments or services. A provider shall ensure written disclosure to the audience, at the time of the program, of any relationship between any named product(s) or service(s) discussed and the provider or between any such product(s) or service(s) and any individual instructor, presenter, panelist, or moderator. However, a provider may offer for sale products or services after the course has been completed as long as it is made clear to all participants that they are under no obligation whatsoever to stay for the sales presentation or purchase any products. Nothing in this subsection shall be interpreted as restricting a provider from discussing generic products during a course.
1. New section
filed 9-8-89; operative 10-8-89 (Register 89, No. 37).
2. Repealer
and new section filed 4-3-95; operative 5-3-95 (Register 95, No.
14).
3. Amendment of subsection (d) filed 12-31-99; operative
1-30-2000 (Register 99, No. 53).
4. Amendment of section and NOTE
filed 8-25-2008; operative 9-24-2008 (Register 2008, No. 35).
5.
Change without regulatory effect amending subsections (b), (b)(1)(A),
(b)(2)(A)-(B), (d)(2) and (e) and amending NOTE filed 4-22-2022 pursuant to
section 100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2022, No. 16).
Note: Authority cited: Section 4933, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Section 4945, Business and Professions Code.