Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING
Agency 85 - BOARD OF MEDICINE
- Chapter 10 - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES [REPEALED]
- Chapter 11 - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES
- Chapter 15 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING DELEGATION TO AN AGENCY SUBORDINATE
- Chapter 20 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, PODIATRY, AND CHIROPRACTIC
- Chapter 21 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING PRESCRIBING OF OPIOIDS AND BUPRENORPHINE
- Chapter 30 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY [REPEALED]
- Chapter 31 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY [REPEALED]
- Chapter 40 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF RESPIRATORY THERAPISTS
- Chapter 50 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
- Chapter 60 - CORRECTIONAL HEALTH ASSISTANTS [REPEALED]
- Chapter 70 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE LICENSURE OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS [WITHDRAWN]
- Chapter 80 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
- Chapter 90 - CERTIFICATION FOR OPTOMETRISTS TO PRESCRIBE FOR AND TREAT CERTAIN DISEASES, INCLUDING ABNORMAL CONDITIONS, OF THE HUMAN EYE AND ITS ADNE [REPEALED]
- Chapter 100 - CERTIFICATION OF RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY PRACTITIONERS [REPEALED]
- Chapter 101 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY
- Chapter 110 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF LICENSED ACUPUNCTURISTS
- Chapter 120 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE LICENSURE OF ATHLETIC TRAINERS
- Chapter 130 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF LICENSED MIDWIVES
- Chapter 140 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF POLYSOMNOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGISTS
- Chapter 150 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
- Chapter 160 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE LICENSURE OF SURGICAL ASSISTANTS AND CERTIFICATION OF SURGICAL TECHNOLOGISTS
- Chapter 170 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF GENETIC COUNSELORS
AGENCY SUMMARY
The Board of Medicine is an agency within the Department of Health Professions. Code of Virginia, Title 54.1, Chapter 25. See the summary for the department for the regulatory power applicable to all health regulatory boards. Code of Virginia, Title 54.1, Chapter 24.
The board is authorized to license the practice of acupuncture, chiropractic, medicine, occupational therapy, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, radiologic technology, and respiratory care; to license physician assistants, athletic trainers, certified professional midwives, polysomnographic technologists, and behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts; to promulgate regulations to carry out the licensing act; jointly with the Board of Nursing, to promulgate regulations respecting the services and prescriptive authority of nurse practitioners; and, jointly with the Board of Pharmacy, to promulgate regulations to facilitate the development and implementation of safe and effective collaborative agreements between practitioners and pharmacists. Code of Virginia, Title 54.1, Chapters 29.
For reports required to be made to the board by professional societies and licensees respecting drug addiction, alcoholism, psychiatric illness, incompetence or improper conduct of board licensees, see Code of Virginia, Title 54.1, Chapter 29, Article 1. The board is required to prescribe by regulation such requirements as may be necessary to ensure continued practitioner competence which may include continuing education, testing, or any other requirement. Code of Virginia, Title 54.1, Chapter 29, Article 2.
Regulations are available at the board's office at 9960 Mayland Drive, Suite 300, Richmond, VA 23233. Internet address: http://www.dhp.virginia.gov/medicine/
Rev. 8/2012
