Bill Text: CA SB639 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Medical professionals: course requirements.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-19 - Ordered to third reading. [SB639 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB639-Amended.html
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Introduced by Senator Limón (Coauthors: Senators Blakespear, Padilla, Rubio, Wahab, and Wiener) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alvarez, Hoover, and Stephanie Nguyen) |
February 16, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the Medical Board of California, in order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed osteopathic physicians and surgeons, to adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of those licensees, as prescribed.
This bill would require general internists and family physicians subject to those licensing requirements who have a patient population of which over 25% are 65 years of age or older to complete at least 20% of all mandatory continuing education hours in a course in the field of geriatric medicine, the special care needs of patients with dementia, or the care of older patients.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2190.3 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:2190.3.
All general internists and family physicians who have a patient population of which over 25 percent are 65 years of age or older shall complete at least 20 percent of all mandatory continuing education hours in a course in the field of geriatric medicine, the special care needs of patients with dementia, or the care of older patients.All general internists and family physicians who have a patient population of which over 25 percent are 65 years of age or older shall complete at least 20 percent of all mandatory continuing education hours in a course in the field of geriatric medicine, the special care needs of patients with dementia, or the care of older patients.