Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 3, March 1, 2024
Continuing education should support, develop, and increase the
knowledge, skills, and professionalism of naturopathic physicians.
(1) CE approval requests must clearly foster
the competency and skills of naturopathic physicians and
(a) Consist of new or review material on
recognized naturopathic practices; or
(b) Research in the advancement of
naturopathic medicine; or
(c)
Education in areas of specialty practice when recognized by the Board;
and
(d) Should be received by the
Board at least four weeks prior to the event.
(2) CE approval requests received more than
30 days after the presentation may not be considered by the Board for
credit.
(3) CE credit is determined
in quarter hour increments.
(4) CE
approval requests must be complete and submitted on an application form
provided by the Board and contain the following:
(a) Title of the program;
(b) Syllabus or course outline for all
offerings in the program:
(A) Pharmacy hours
must be clearly delineated in each request with supporting documentation and
meet the standards set in 850-040-0210(10),
(B) Hours in Obstetrics must be clearly
delineated with supporting documentation, and
(C) Ethics education hours must be clearly
delineated with supporting documentation;
(c) Date(s);
(d) Start and end time for individual
presentations;
(e) Include the
total hours for the entire program;
(f) Location(s) of presentation;
and
(g) A copy of the curriculum
vitae for each presenter, who must be a naturopathic physician, other licensed
physician or other professionally acknowledged health care educator with
expertise in the subject matter.
(5) The Board reserves the right to decline
for consideration programs that are not submitted with adequate
documentation.
(6) CE approval
requests will not be considered for programs that:
(a) Are proprietary in nature, promoting
exclusive services, companies or products;
(b) Misrepresent or mislead the end result or
skill obtained by the education or training offered;
(c) Are community service seminars and
activities;
(d) Are
self-growth/self-help activities;
(c) Are practice building
activities;
(e) Are medical or
insurance billing presentations;
(f) Are nonprofessional health related
programs presented by a lay person(s);
(g) Are nonprofessional health related
programs directed to the lay public;
(h) Are not relevant to the scope of practice
of naturopathic medicine.
(7) A CE program request that has been
submitted to the Board with inaccurate or misleading information will lose CE
approval for the program even it has already been presented.
(8) If a program has been denied approval,
the licensee may submit a request for review by the Board with additional
substantiating documentation.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
685.125
Stats. Implemented: ORS
685.102
