California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 13.8 - Physician Assistant Board
Article 7 - Approved Controlled Substance Education Courses
Section 1399.610 - Requirements for an Approved Controlled Substance Education Course to Administer, Provide or Issue a Drug Order for Schedule II-V Controlled Substances Without Advance Approval from a Supervising Physician
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
A controlled substance education course shall be deemed approved by the board if it meets all of the following criteria:
(a) The course includes all of the following learning objectives:
(b) The course includes a comprehensive written examination, proctored by the course provider at the conclusion of the course, of the material presented. The licensee must successfully complete the examination to receive a certificate of completion issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of section 1399.612.
(c) The course is at least six (6) hours in duration, of which a minimum of three (3) hours shall be exclusively dedicated to Schedule II controlled substances. A course provider shall not include the time for the written examination specified in subdivision (b) in the (6) six hour requirement. The course shall be completed on or after January 1, 2008.
(d) The course is provided by one of following entities:
1. New article
7 (sections
1399.610-1399.612) and section
filed 10-17-2008; operative 10-17-2008 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4
(Register 2008, No. 42). For prior history of article 7, sections
1399.580-1399.586 and article 10,
sections 1399.610-1399.615, see Register
83, No. 39.
2. Change without regulatory effect amending first
paragraph and subsection (d)(1) filed 8-7-2013 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2013, No. 32).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 3502, 3502.1 and 3510, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 2058, 3502, 3502.1 and 3509, Business and Professions Code.