Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 3, September 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
311.271,
311.550,
311.560,
311.571
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
311.565(1)(b) authorizes the
board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish requirements for a
regular license to practice medicine or osteopathy in the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. This administrative regulation establishes the requirements for board
approval of medical or osteopathic schools.
Section
1.
(1) Except as provided by
subsection (2) of this section:
(a) A license
or permit shall not be issued by the board or retained by a licensee if an
applicant or licensee has failed to provide the board proof that he is a
graduate of a medical or os-teopathic school, college, or university that has
been approved by the board; and
(b)
The requirement for board approval of an educational institution shall not be
waived.
(2) An applicant
for limited licensure-institutional practice pursuant to
KRS
311.571(4) shall be granted
a license without prior approval by the board of the medical or osteopathic
school, college, or university from which he graduated if he has submitted
proof:
(a) Of the educational institution's
existence; and
(b) That he is a
graduate thereof.
Section
2. Except as provided by Section 4 of this administrative
regulation:
(1) A medical or osteopathic
school, college, or university located in the United States, its territories or
protectorates, or Canada shall be considered approved by the board;
and
(2) A license or permit granted
by a medical or osteopathic school, college, or university located in the
United States, its territories or protectorates, or Canada shall be recognized
if written proof is submitted that the educational institution is located in:
(a) The United States, its territories or
protectorates, and accredited by the:
1.
Liaison Committee on Medical Education; or
2. American Osteopathic Association
Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation; or
(b) Canada and approved or accredited by the
Canadian Medical Association.
Section 3. Except as provided by Section 4 of
this administrative regulation, a medical or os-teopathic school, college, or
university located outside the United States, its territories or protectorates,
or Canada in which an applicant originally enrolled in any academic year
through and concluding with academic year 2008-2009 shall be considered
approved by the board, and a license or permit issued by a medical or
osteopathic school, college, or university located outside the United States,
its territories or protectorates, or Canada shall be recognized, if the
educational institution:
(1) Is officially
recognized in good standing by the country in which it is located;
(2) Is registered as a medical school,
college, or university in the:
(a) World
Health Organization directory; or
(b) World Directory of Medical Schools;
and
(3) Possesses a
basic course of clinical and classroom medical instruction that is:
(a) Not less than thirty-two (32) months in
length; and
(b) Under the
educational institution's direct authority.
Section 4. Except as provided by Section 5 of
this administrative regulation, a medical or osteopathic school, college, or
university located outside the United States, its territories, or Canada in
which an applicant originally enrolled in academic year 2009 - 2010 or any
academic year thereafter shall be considered approved by the board, and a
license or permit issued by a medical or osteopathic school, college, or
university located outside the United States, its territories or protectorates,
or Canada shall be recognized, if the educational institution:
(1) Is officially recognized in good standing
by the country in which it is located;
(2) Is registered as a medical school,
college, or university in the International Medical Educational
Directory;
(3) Requires that all
courses be completed by physical on-site attendance in the country in which the
school is chartered; and
(4)
Possesses a basic course of clinical and classroom medical instruction that is:
(a) Not less than thirty-two (32) months in
length; and
(b) Under the
educational institution's direct authority.
Section 5.
(1) The board shall deny or revoke its
approval of a medical or osteopathic school, college, or university that has
failed to meet the requirements for approval established by this administrative
regulation.
(2) If the board denies
or withdraws its approval of a medical or osteopathic school, college, or
university, it shall issue an order stating the grounds upon which the denial
or approval was based.
Section
6.
(1)
(a) Except as provided by subsection (2) of
this section, the degree of an applicant shall not be recognized unless an
applicant has met the requirements established by this section.
(b) Except as provided by subsection (2) of
this section, clinical clerkships that a medical school located outside the
United States, its territories or protectorates, or Canada permits a student to
perform in order to satisfy its curriculum's clinical requirements shall be
approved if an applicant has established that:
1. The clinical clerkships he performed were
equal in quality and character to the clinical training performed in the United
States by students in American medical and osteopathic schools; and
2. The clinical clerkships he performed had
been evaluated and approved by the foreign medical school:
a. Prior to commencement; and
b. As required by the foreign school's
established standards for approval of clerkships performed in the United
States.
(2) The board shall waive the requirements
established by subsection (1) of this section, if an applicant:
(a) Commenced a clerkship prior to February
12, 1985; and
(b) Has verified that
he has:
1. Satisfactorily completed an
approved three (3) year post graduate training program at one (1) hospital or
institution; or
2. Been accepted
into, or is currently enrolled, in the second or third year of a postgraduate
training program approved by the board.
Section 7. The executive
director shall recommend for approval by the board the equivalency of
premedical or preosteopathic units of study credited by a college or university
located outside the United States or Canada on an individual basis.
Section 8. Amount of Postgraduate Training
Required. An applicant for licensure shall provide written proof of having
completed the postgraduate training required by this administrative regulation.
(1) Pursuant to
KRS
311.571(1)(d), an applicant
for a regular license shall have satisfactorily completed:
(a) At least two (2) years of prescribed
courses of postgraduate training in accordance with this administrative
regulation; or
(b) At least one (1)
year of prescribed courses of postgraduate training in accordance with this
administrative regulation and an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery program
approved by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
(2) Resident training license.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of
this subsection, a resident in a Kentucky postgraduate training program
accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the
American Osteopathic Association shall receive a resident training license if
the applicant has:
1. Completed one (1) year
of postgraduate training in accordance with this administrative
regulation;
2. Successfully
completed:
a. One (1) of the examinations
approved under
201 KAR 9:031,
Section 2; or
b. One (1) of the
combinations of examinations approved under
201 KAR 9:031,
Section 1; and
3. Paid
to the board a seventy-five (75) dollar fee.
(b) The resident training license shall
permit its holder to practice medicine within the institution or in a setting
approved by the postgraduate training program.
(c) The resident training license shall not
be issued to a second-year resident without a recommendation by the director of
the postgraduate training program and the approval of the board.
Section 9. Postgraduate
Training Programs Approved by the Board. The following postgraduate training
programs shall meet the postgraduate training requirement for licensure:
(1) All postgraduate training programs in
hospitals and institutions located in the United States and approved by the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education;
(2) All postgraduate training programs in
hospitals and institutions located in Canada; and
(3) All postgraduate training programs in
hospitals and institutions located in the United States or Canada and approved
by the American Osteopathic Association.
Section 10. Fellowship Training in the United
States or Canada. The board shall consider on an individual basis written proof
of satisfactory completion of fellowship training recognized by the board to be
of satisfactory quality as substitution for the second year of required
postgraduate training approved by the board pursuant to this administrative
regulation.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
311.565(1)(b),
311.571(1)(d),
(2)(f)
