Texas Administrative Code
Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS
Part 9 - TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD
Chapter 184 - ACUPUNCTURE
Subchapter B - LICENSING AND REGISTRATION
Section 184.17 - Biennial Continuing Acupuncture Education (CAE) Requirements
Universal Citation: 22 TX Admin Code § 184.17
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) As part of registration renewal, a license holder must complete 34 hours of CAE during the biennial renewal period as follows:
(1)
Minimum core hours include:
(A) eight hours in
general acupuncture therapies;
(B)
two hours in ethics and safety;
(C)
six hours in herbology; and
(D)
four hours of biomedicine.
(2) Completion of a course in human
trafficking prevention approved by the Executive Commissioner of the Texas
Health and Human Services Commission. This course may satisfy the required two
core hours in ethics and safety.
(3) The remaining CAE hours may be from other
approved courses. No more than four hours in business practice or office
administration is allowed.
(b) Approved courses are:
(1) courses approved by the board;
(2) courses offered by board approved CAE
providers;
(3) NCCAOM professional
development activity credits; and
(4) CAE providers who are formally approved
by another state for a minimum of three years.
(c) Carry forward of CAE credit is allowed as follows:
(1) no more than 34 excess hours
earned in a biennium may be applied to the following biennial requirements;
and
(2) no hours can be carried
forward past a single renewal period.
(d) Instructors of board-approved CAE courses may receive three hours of CAE credit for each hour of lecture with a maximum of six hours of continuing education credit per year. No CAE credit shall be granted to school faculty members as credit for their regular teaching assignments.
(e) Exemptions for CAE requirements.
(1) Requests must be made in
writing at least 30 days prior to expiration of the biennial renewal period for
the following reasons:
(A) catastrophic
illness
(B) military service of
longer than one year's duration outside the state;
(C) licensee's residence of longer than one
year's duration outside the United States; or
(D) other good cause.
(2) Exemptions are subject to the approval of
the Executive Director of the board and may not exceed two
years.
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