Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a)
Eligibility. To be eligible for a license, a person must:
(1) have an earned master's or doctoral
degree:
(A) from a program of study in
medical physics that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of
Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP);
(B) from a regionally accredited college or
university in physics, medical physics, biophysics, radiological physics,
medical health physics or equivalent courses; or
(C) from a regionally accredited college or
university:
(i) in physical science
(including chemistry), applied mathematics or engineering; and
(ii) have twenty semester hours (30 quarter
hours) of upper division semester hour credit or graduate level physics
courses, if offered:
(I) by the faculty of a
Department of Physics and would be acceptable in meeting undergraduate or
graduate degree requirements in physics of the offering department;
or
(II) by the faculty of a program
accredited in medical physics by the CAMPEP; or
(III) by the faculty of another science
department and acceptable to the board.
(2) have demonstrated, to the
board's satisfaction, the completion of at least two years of full-time work
experience;
(3) have work
experience in more than one specialty to include six additional months of
full-time equivalent work experience in each additional specialty;
and
(4) submit a completed
application as required by the Act, § 602.203.
(b) Work experience. Full-time work
experience shall be at least 32 hours per week in the specialty area. Part-time
work experience may be aggregated in order to meet the minimum of 32 work hours
per week. All work experience must have been completed in the five years
preceding the date of application for licensure as a medical physicist, upgrade
or temporary license in the medical physics specialty for which application is
made.
(c) Foreign academic credit.
Degrees and course work received at foreign universities shall be acceptable
only if such course work could be counted as transfer credit by regionally
accredited universities. An applicant having a foreign degree(s) must furnish
at the applicant's own expense an evaluation of the foreign degree(s) from a
commercial evaluation service. The degree evaluation must be sent directly to
the board by the evaluation service. An applicant must submit with the
application complete certified copies or documented proof of the degree(s)
awarded (masters or doctorate) and the date it was awarded. Documents written
in languages other than English shall be accompanied by a certified English
translation.
(d) Approved specialty
examination. An applicant under this section must successfully complete one of
the following examinations in each specialty for which application is
submitted:
(1) for the therapeutic
radiological physics specialty, the examination offered by:
(A) the American Board of Radiology or its
successor organization in therapeutic radiological physics, radiological
physics or therapeutic medical physics;
(B) the American Board of Medical Physics or
its successor organization in radiation oncology physics; or
(C) the Canadian College of Physicists in
Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics or radiation
oncology physics;
(2)
for the medical nuclear physics specialty, the examination offered by:
(A) the American Board of Radiology or its
successor organization in medical nuclear physics, radiological physics or
nuclear medical physics;
(B) the
American Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in nuclear
medicine physics;
(C) the American
Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine or its successor organization in physics
and instrumentation or in molecular imaging science; or
(D) the Canadian College of Physicists in
Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics or nuclear
medicine physics;
(3)
for the diagnostic radiological physics specialty, the examination offered by:
(A) the American Board of Radiology or its
successor organization in diagnostic radiological physics, radiological physics
or diagnostic medical physics;
(B)
the American Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in
diagnostic imaging physics or diagnostic radiology physics; or
(C) the Canadian College of Physicists in
Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics; or
(4) for the medical health physics
specialty, the examination offered by:
(A)
the American Board of Radiology or its successor organization in radiological
physics;
(B) the American Board of
Health Physics or its successor organization in health physics or comprehensive
health physics;
(C) the American
Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in medical health
physics;
(D) the American Board of
Science in Nuclear Medicine or its successor organization in radiation
protection; or
(E) the Canadian
College of Physicists in Medicine or its successor organization in general
medical physics.
(e) Upgrade. Following successful completion
of the required examination as set out in subsection (d) of this section and
the relevant work experience, a temporary licensee may upgrade the temporary
license to a medical physicist license.
(1) A
medical physicist license shall not be issued until the applicant has passed
the examination. The application procedures set out in §
601.6 of
this title (relating to Application Procedures) shall apply except that the
applicant need not file a transcript unless additional relevant course work has
been completed.
(2) The temporary
licensee must also submit three current professional references as follows:
(A) two medical physicists. If the applicant
is applying for one specialty, both physicists must be practicing in that
specialty area. If the applicant is applying for two or more specialties, one
physicist must be practicing in one of those specialties and the other
physicist must be practicing in another one of the specialties for which the
applicant is making application; and
(B) one licensed physician practicing in at
least one of the specialties for which the applicant is making application;
however, if the applicant is applying for a license in the specialty area of
medical health physics, the physician may be practicing in diagnostic
radiology, radiation oncology, or nuclear medicine.
(f) Expired temporary license. A
person whose temporary license has expired may not upgrade the temporary
license to a medical physicist license. Application must be made under the
provisions set out in §
601.6 of
this title.
