Current through Register 2023 Notice Reg. No. 52, December 29, 2023
(a) For purposes of this section,
"implementation date" means two years following June 8, 2011.
(b) For license renewals that expire on or
after the implementation date, the number of required hours of continuing
education courses shall be twenty-four (24). For license renewals that expire
prior to the implementation date, the number of required hours of continuing
education courses shall be twelve (12).
(c) For license renewals that expire on or
after the implementation date, a maximum of twelve (12) continuing education
hours may be completed through distance learning as defined in Section
363.1. For license renewals that
expire prior to the implementation date, a maximum of six (6) continuing
education hours may be completed through distance learning as defined in
Section 363.1.
(d) Any continuing education hours
accumulated before June 8, 2011 that meet the requirements in effect on the
date the hours were accumulated, will be accepted by the board for license
renewals.
(e) On or after the
implementation date, licensees shall complete a minimum of two (2) hours in
subdivision (g)(11) -- Ethics and Law, a minimum of four (4) hours in any one
of, or a combination of, the subject areas specified in subdivision (g)(3) --
History Taking and Physical Examination Procedures, subdivision (g)(5) --
Chiropractic Adjustive Techniques or Chiropractic Manipulation Techniques, or
subdivision (g)(10) -- Proper and Ethical Billing and Coding.
(f) With the exception of the mandatory hours
referenced in subdivision (e), the remaining eighteen (18) hours of additional
continuing education requirements may be met by taking courses in any of the
subject areas listed in subdivision (g) or courses taken pursuant to
subdivision (h). The eighteen (18) hours may include any combination of
continuing education courses in subject areas specified in either subdivision
(g) or approved by agencies specified in subdivision (h). By way of example, a
licensee may take eight (8) hours of continuing education courses in subject
areas listed in subdivision (g), that are approved by the board, and ten (10)
hours of continuing education courses that are approved by the California
Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers Compensation pursuant
to subparagraph (1) of subdivision (h).
(g) Courses approved by the board shall be
limited to the following subject areas:
1.
Philosophy of chiropractic, including the historical development of
chiropractic as an art and science and health care approach; the vertebral
subluxation complex and somato-visceral reflexes including their relationships
between disease and health; and other chiropractic theory and
philosophy.
2. Instruction in basic
sciences of anatomy, histology, neurology, physiology, nutrition, pathology,
biochemistry or toxicology.
3.
Instruction in various basic to comprehensive history taking and physical
examination procedures, including but not limited to orthopedic, neurological
and general diagnosis related to evaluation of the neuro-musculoskeletal
systems, and includes general diagnosis and differential diagnosis of all
conditions that affect the human body.
4. Diagnostic testing procedures,
interpretation and technologies that aid in differential diagnosis of all
conditions that affect the human body.
5. Chiropractic adjustive techniques or
chiropractic manipulation techniques.
6. Pain management theory, including, but not
limited to, current trends in treatment and instruction in the physiology and
anatomy of acute, sub-acute and chronic pain.
7. Physiotherapy.
8. Instruction in Manipulation Under
Anesthesia including the safe handling of patients under anesthesia.
9. Instruction in the aspects of special
population care, including, but not limited to, geriatric, pediatric, and
athletic care as related to the practice of chiropractic.
10. Instruction in proper and ethical billing
and coding, including accurate and effective record keeping and documentation
of evaluation, treatment and progress of a patient. This is not to include
practice building or patient recruitment/retention or business techniques or
principles that teach concepts to increase patient visits or patient fees per
case.
11. Ethics and law: including
but not limited to: truth in advertising; professional boundaries; mandatory
reporting requirements for child abuse/neglect, elder abuse/neglect; spousal or
cohabitant abuse/neglect; sexual boundaries between patient and doctors; review
of the specific laws, rules and regulations related to the practice of
chiropractic in the State of California.
12. Adverse event avoidance, including
reduction of potential malpractice issues.
13. Pharmacology, including side effects,
drug interactions and the pharmodynamics of various commonly prescribed and
over-the-counter drugs; drug reactions and interactions with herbs, vitamins
and nutritional supplements; blood and urinalysis testing used in the diagnosis
and detection of disease, including use of and interpretation of drug testing
strips or kits utilizing urinalysis, saliva, hair and nail clippings.
14. A licensee may earn up to a maximum of
two (2) hours of continuing education credit in cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
basic life support or use of an automated external defibrillator.
15. Board Meeting: A licensee may earn a
maximum of four (4) hours of continuing education credit per renewal period for
attending a full board meeting that includes the hearing of cases related to
petitioners seeking the reinstatement of revoked licenses or early termination
of probationary licenses. A petitioner may not earn any continuing education
hours for attending a board meeting on the same day in which said petitioner's
hearing is conducted. The attendance of a licensee at a board meeting under
this subparagraph shall be monitored and confirmed by board staff designated by
the Executive Officer.
16. Any of
the following as related to the practice of chiropractic:
(A) Principles of practice.
(B) Wellness. (prevention, health
maintenance)
(C)
Rehabilitation.
(D) Public
health.
(h)
With the exception of the mandatory courses specified in subdivision (e), the
remaining continuing education requirements may be met by taking continuing
education courses, including distance learning, that are approved by either of
the following:
(1) The California Department
of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers Compensation.
(2) Any Healing Arts Board or Bureau within
Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code or approved by any organization
authorized to approve continuing education by any Healing Arts Board or Bureau
in Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.
(i) The continuing education providers and
courses referenced in subdivision (h) do not need to be approved by the Board
for credit to be granted nor do they need to meet the requirements contained in
Sections 362,
363, and
363.1.
1. Renumbering
of former section
356 to section
361, including amendment of
section heading, repealer and new section and amendment of NOTE, filed
5-9-2011; operative 6-8-2011 (Register 2011, No.
19).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
1000-
4(b)
and
1000-
4(e),
Business and Professions Code (Chiropractic Initiative Act of California Stats.
1923 p. 1xxxviii). Reference: Sections
1000-
4(b)
and
1000-
10(a),
Business and Professions Code (Chiropractic Initiative Act of California Stats.
1923 p. 1xxxviii).
