Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: Section
334.046,
RSMo authorizes the Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
to grant temporary licenses to certain physicians to teach or lecture in
certain programs. This rule contains the requirements for temporary licenses,
defines certain terms used in those requirements, establishes a procedure for
applying for temporary licenses and provides for the automatic expiration of
temporary licenses.
(1) This
rule shall be known as The Visiting Professor Rule.
(2) As used in this rule, unless specifically
provided otherwise, the term-
(A) Accredited
medical school shall mean any medical college approved and accredited as
reputable by the American Medical Association (AMA) or the Liaison Committee on
Medical Education and any osteopathic college approved and accredited as
reputable by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA);
(B) Accredited hospital shall mean a hospital
located in Missouri and licensed by the Missouri Department of Health-Bureau of
Health Facility Regulations;
(C)
Otherwise qualified physician shall mean an individual who meets all
requirements for permanent licensure as a physician and surgeon in Missouri
pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 334, RSMo and corresponding rules of
the board; and
(D) Program shall
mean a course of classroom instruction in medical or osteopathic education; a
post graduate training course, including, but not limited to, an internship,
residency or fellowship; a continuing medical education course which involves
participatory, hands-on interaction between an instructor or a physician
enrolled in the course and a patient; and a continuing medical education course
which involves actual live demonstrations of any aspect or technique of the
healing arts by an instructor.
(E)
Visiting professor license shall mean any temporary license granted pursuant to
the requirements of this rule, and shall include fourteen (14)-day visiting
professor licenses.
(F) Fourteen
(14)-day visiting professor license shall mean a visiting professor license
granted pursuant to this rule which-
1.
Allows the holder of the license to teach or lecture on no more than fourteen
(14) days, cumulatively, in any twelve (12)-month period, regardless of whether
the twelve (12)-month period coincides with the twelve (12)-month duration of
the license; and
2. Requires the
holder of the license to notify the board, at least ten (10) days prior to
beginning any period of teaching or lecturing in Missouri, of the duration and
the beginning and end dates of the particular period of teaching or lecturing
for which the holder is giving notice.
(3) The board may grant a visiting professor
license to an otherwise qualified physician to teach or lecture in a program
sponsored by an accredited medical school or an accredited teaching
hospital.
(4) The board, in its
sole discretion, pursuant to this rule may issue a visiting professor license
to an applicant who has not met all of the requirements for permanent licensure
as a physician and surgeon in Missouri, if the applicant is licensed as a
physician and surgeon in another state or international country.
(5) A visiting professor license shall
automatically expire twelve (12) months from the date of its issuance. A
visiting professor license issued pursuant to this rule may be renewed so long
as the applicant has continuously taught or lectured at the same accredited
medical school or accredited teaching hospital where the applicant was to teach
or lecture when the license was first issued, except that fourteen (14)-day
visiting professor licenses issued pursuant to this rule may not be renewed. A
visiting professor license issued pursuant to this rule shall not be renewed if
it was inactive for any reason during the immediately preceding year.
(6) Applicants seeking a visiting professor
license under this rule shall utilize the following procedure:
(A) The applicant is required to make
application, under oath, upon either the fourteen (14)-day visiting professor
license application form prepared by the board or the regular visiting
professor license application form (see
20 CSR
2150-2.060) prepared by the board, depending upon the
type of license desired by the applicant;
(B) The board will not consider an
application until the application is fully completed and accompanied by all
documents requested in the application; and
(C) The individual in charge of the program
sponsored by the accredited medical school or the accredited teaching hospital
where the applicant will teach or lecture shall send the completed application
to the executive secretary of the board at the following address: State Board
of Registration for the Healing Arts, PO Box 4, Jefferson City, MO
65102.
*Original authority: 334.046, RSMo 1986, amended 1989,
1996, 1997; and 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993,
1995.
