Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) In
accordance with section
8608
(2) of the Education Law, the department may
issue a provisional permit pursuant to which the provisional permit holder may
perform examinations and procedures within the definition of clinical
laboratory technology set forth in section
8601
(1) of the Education Law under the general
supervision of the director of the clinical laboratory, as determined by the
department, subject to the requirements set forth in section
8608
(2)(a) of the Education Law and this section.
In addition to the requirements for a provisional permit established in
Education Law section 8608(2)(a), to qualify for a provisional permit as a
clinical laboratory technologist, an applicant shall satisfy one of the
following requirements:
(1) an applicant
shall be licensed as a clinical laboratory technologist, or the equivalent as
determined by the department, in another jurisdiction; or
(2) an applicant shall have received a
bachelor's or higher degree in biological, chemical, or physical sciences, and
training in a clinical laboratory, provided such education and training are
acceptable to the department. Such training shall include, but need not be
limited to, training as a specialist; clinical experience in the practice of
clinical laboratory technology, which provides supervised clinical experience
that includes hematology, hemostasis, immunohematology, immunology, clinical
chemistry, urinalysis/body fluids, and clinical microbiology or the substantial
equivalent of such training or clinical experience, as determined by the
department; or
(3) an applicant
shall have received a bachelor's or higher degree in the biological, chemical,
or physical sciences or in mathematics, and have served as a research assistant
in a research laboratory, under the direction of the director or the principal
researcher of such research laboratory, working on the research and development
of any procedures and examinations to be conducted by a laboratory, as defined
in title V of article 5 of the Public Health Law, on material derived from the
human body which provides information for the diagnosis, prevention or
treatment of a disease or assessment of a human medical
condition.
(b) The
applicant for a provisional permit to practice as a clinical laboratory
technologist shall:
(1) file an application
for a clinical laboratory technologist license and a provisional permit with
the department and pay the initial licensure and registration fee as prescribed
in section
8605
(1) of the Education Law and the provisional
permit fee as prescribed by section
8608
(2)(b)(v) of the Education Law;
(2) be at least 18 years of age;
(3) be of good moral character as determined
by the department; and
(4) meet
requirements set forth in subdivision (a) of this section.
(c) The provisional permit issued pursuant to
this section shall be valid for a period of not more than twenty-four months
and shall not be renewable.
