Bill Text: CA AB2214 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Emergency room physicians and surgeons: continuing medical education: geriatric care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 422, Statutes of 2014. [AB2214 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2214-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2214	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  422
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 18, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fox

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 2191 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to physicians and surgeons.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2214, Fox. Emergency room physicians and surgeons: continuing
medical education: geriatric care.
   Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure
and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of
California. Existing law requires the Division of Licensing of the
Medical Board of California to establish continuing education
requirements for physicians and surgeons. Existing law abolishes the
division, provides for the board to handle the responsibilities of
the division, and deems a reference to the division to refer to the
board.
   This bill would require the board in determining continuing
education requirements, to consider including a course in geriatric
care for emergency room physicians and surgeons. The bill would make
nonsubstantive, technical, and conforming changes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Dolores
H. Fox Act.
  SEC. 2.  Section 2191 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2191.  (a) In determining its continuing education requirements,
the board shall consider including a course in human sexuality as
defined in Section 2090 and nutrition to be taken by those licensees
whose practices may require knowledge in those areas.
   (b) The board shall consider including a course in child abuse
detection and treatment to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
abused or neglected children.
   (c) The board shall consider including a course in acupuncture to
be taken by those licensees whose practices may require knowledge in
the area of acupuncture and whose education has not included
instruction in acupuncture.
   (d) The board shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take
nutrition as part of his or her continuing education, particularly a
physician and surgeon involved in primary care.
   (e) The board shall consider including a course in elder abuse
detection and treatment to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
abused or neglected persons 65 years of age and older.
   (f) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the early detection and
treatment of substance abusing pregnant women to be taken by those
licensees whose practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood
of contact with these women.
   (g) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the special care needs of
drug addicted infants to be taken by those licensees whose practices
are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with these
infants.
   (h) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course providing training and
guidelines on how to routinely screen for signs exhibited by abused
women, particularly for physicians and surgeons in emergency,
surgical, primary care, pediatric, prenatal, and mental health
settings. In the event the board establishes a requirement for
continuing education coursework in spousal or partner abuse detection
or treatment, that requirement shall be met by each licensee within
no more than four years from the date the requirement is imposed.
   (i) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the special care needs of
individuals and their families facing end-of-life issues, including,
but not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Pain and symptom management.
   (2) The psycho-social dynamics of death.
   (3) Dying and bereavement.
   (4) Hospice care.
   (j) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall give its highest priority to considering a course on pain
management.
   (k) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in geriatric care for
emergency room physicians and surgeons.