Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2150 - State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
Chapter 9 - Licensing of Anesthesiologist Assistants
Section 20 CSR 2150-9.070 - Continuing Education
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule details the board's minimum requirements for continuing education.
(1) Each licensee shall complete and report at least forty (40) hours of continuing education each renewal period. The board shall not issue a renewal of a licensee's certificate of registration unless the licensee demonstrates active certification by the National Commission for Certification of Anesthesiologist Assistants and completion of forty (40) hours of continuing education accredited by the National Commission for Certification of Anesthesiologist Assistants or the American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants. The period for completion of the continuing education requirements shall be the twenty-four (24)-month period prior to the expiration of their license. A licensee who has failed to obtain and report, in a timely fashion, forty (40) hours of continuing education shall not engage in practice as an anesthesiologist assistant unless an extension is obtained pursuant to section (4) of this rule.
(2) Each licensee shall certify by attestation, under penalty of perjury, that s/he has completed the required hours of continuing education listed by him/her on the renewal form.
(3) Each licensee shall retain records documenting his/her attendance at and completion of the required hours of continuing education for a minimum of three (3) years after the reporting period in which the continuing education was completed. The records shall document the titles of the courses taken, dates, locations, course sponsors and number of hours earned. The board may conduct an audit of licensees to verify compliance with the continuing education requirement. Licensees shall assist the board in its audit by providing timely and complete responses to the board's inquiries.
(4) A licensee who cannot complete the required hours of continuing education because of personal illness, military service or other circumstances beyond the licensee's control which the board deems to be sufficient to impose an insurmountable hardship may apply for an extension of time to complete the continuing education requirements. Any extension of time to complete the continuing education requirements will be granted solely in the discretion of the board. The licensee must make a written application for extension of time prior to the deadline for completion of the continuing education requirement. The application for extension shall be accompanied by a processing fee as required in 20 CSR 2150-9.080. The licensee shall provide full and complete written documentation of the grounds supporting the reasons for which an extension is sought.
(5) For purposes of section 334.420, RSMo concerning waiver of the continuing education requirements for retired anesthesiologist assistants, a retired anesthesiologist assistant is one who has neither engaged in active practice as an anesthesiologist assistant nor held themselves out as an active practicing anesthesiologist assistant and, pursuant to section 334.410, RSMo, has executed and filed with the board a retirement affidavit. A retired anesthesiologist assistant may keep their wall-hanging certificate after execution of a retirement affidavit but shall surrender, upon retirement, all other indicia of licensure.
*Original authority: 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993, 1995 and 334.414, RSMo 2003.