Bill Text: IL HB2548 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that a person may obtain a visiting physician permit if that person has received an invitation or appointment to study, demonstrate, or perform a specific medical, osteopathic, chiropractic or clinical subject or technique in a state or national medical, osteopathic or chiropractic professional association or society conference or meeting. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-13 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 96-0398 [HB2548 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB2548-Engrossed.html

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AN ACT concerning professional regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended by
changing Section 18 as follows:
(225 ILCS 60/18) (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-18)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2010)
Sec. 18. Visiting professor, physician, or resident
permits.
(A) Visiting professor permit.
(1) A visiting professor permit shall entitle a person
to practice medicine in all of its branches or to practice
the treatment of human ailments without the use of drugs
and without operative surgery provided:
(a) the person maintains an equivalent
authorization to practice medicine in all of its
branches or to practice the treatment of human ailments
without the use of drugs and without operative surgery
in good standing in their native licensing
jurisdiction during the period of the visiting
professor permit;
(b) the person has received a faculty appointment
to teach in a medical, osteopathic or chiropractic

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school in Illinois; and
(c) the Department may prescribe the information
necessary to establish an applicant's eligibility for
a permit. This information shall include without
limitation (i) a statement from the dean of the medical
school at which the applicant will be employed
describing the applicant's qualifications and (ii) a
statement from the dean of the medical school listing
every affiliated institution in which the applicant
will be providing instruction as part of the medical
school's education program and justifying any clinical
activities at each of the institutions listed by the
dean.
(2) Application for visiting professor permits shall
be made to the Department, in writing, on forms prescribed
by the Department and shall be accompanied by the required
fee established by rule, which shall not be refundable. Any
application shall require the information as, in the
judgment of the Department, will enable the Department to
pass on the qualifications of the applicant.
(3) A visiting professor permit shall be valid for no
longer than 2 years from the date of issuance or until the
time the faculty appointment is terminated, whichever
occurs first, and may be renewed only in accordance with
subdivision (A)(6) of this Section.
(4) The applicant may be required to appear before the

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Medical Licensing Board for an interview prior to, and as a
requirement for, the issuance of the original permit and
the renewal.
(5) Persons holding a permit under this Section shall
only practice medicine in all of its branches or practice
the treatment of human ailments without the use of drugs
and without operative surgery in the State of Illinois in
their official capacity under their contract within the
medical school itself and any affiliated institution in
which the permit holder is providing instruction as part of
the medical school's educational program and for which the
medical school has assumed direct responsibility.
(6) A visiting professor permit shall be valid until
the last day of the next physician license renewal period,
as set by rule, and may only be renewed for applicants who
meet the following requirements:
(i) have obtained the required continuing
education hours as set by rule; and
(ii) have paid the fee prescribed for a license
under Section 21 of this Act.
For initial renewal, the visiting professor must
successfully pass a general competency examination authorized
by the Department by rule, unless he or she was issued an
initial visiting professor permit on or after January 1, 2007,
but prior to July 1, 2007.

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(B) Visiting physician permit.
(1) The Department may, in its discretion, issue a
temporary visiting physician permit, without examination,
provided:
(a) (blank);
(b) that the person maintains an equivalent
authorization to practice medicine in all of its
branches or to practice the treatment of human ailments
without the use of drugs and without operative surgery
in good standing in his or her native licensing
jurisdiction during the period of the temporary
visiting physician permit;
(c) that the person has received an invitation or
appointment to study, demonstrate, or perform a
specific medical, osteopathic, chiropractic or
clinical subject or technique in a medical,
osteopathic, or chiropractic school, a state or
national medical, osteopathic, or chiropractic
professional association or society conference or
meeting, a hospital licensed under the Hospital
Licensing Act, a hospital organized under the
University of Illinois Hospital Act, or a facility
operated pursuant to the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment
Center Act; and
(d) that the temporary visiting physician permit
shall only permit the holder to practice medicine in

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all of its branches or practice the treatment of human
ailments without the use of drugs and without operative
surgery within the scope of the medical, osteopathic,
chiropractic, or clinical studies, or in conjunction
with the state or national medical, osteopathic, or
chiropractic professional association or society
conference or meeting, for which the holder was invited
or appointed.
(2) The application for the temporary visiting
physician permit shall be made to the Department, in
writing, on forms prescribed by the Department, and shall
be accompanied by the required fee established by rule,
which shall not be refundable. The application shall
require information that, in the judgment of the
Department, will enable the Department to pass on the
qualification of the applicant, and the necessity for the
granting of a temporary visiting physician permit.
(3) A temporary visiting physician permit shall be
valid for no longer than (i) 180 days from the date of
issuance or (ii) until the time the medical, osteopathic,
chiropractic, or clinical studies are completed, or the
state or national medical, osteopathic, or chiropractic
professional association or society conference or meeting
has concluded, whichever occurs first.
(4) The applicant for a temporary visiting physician
permit may be required to appear before the Medical

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Licensing Board for an interview prior to, and as a
requirement for, the issuance of a temporary visiting
physician permit.
(5) A limited temporary visiting physician permit
shall be issued to a physician licensed in another state
who has been requested to perform emergency procedures in
Illinois if he or she meets the requirements as established
by rule.
(C) Visiting resident permit.
(1) The Department may, in its discretion, issue a
temporary visiting resident permit, without examination,
provided:
(a) (blank);
(b) that the person maintains an equivalent
authorization to practice medicine in all of its
branches or to practice the treatment of human ailments
without the use of drugs and without operative surgery
in good standing in his or her native licensing
jurisdiction during the period of the temporary
visiting resident permit;
(c) that the applicant is enrolled in a
postgraduate clinical training program outside the
State of Illinois that is approved by the Department;
(d) that the individual has been invited or
appointed for a specific period of time to perform a

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portion of that post graduate clinical training
program under the supervision of an Illinois licensed
physician in an Illinois patient care clinic or
facility that is affiliated with the out-of-State post
graduate training program; and
(e) that the temporary visiting resident permit
shall only permit the holder to practice medicine in
all of its branches or practice the treatment of human
ailments without the use of drugs and without operative
surgery within the scope of the medical, osteopathic,
chiropractic or clinical studies for which the holder
was invited or appointed.
(2) The application for the temporary visiting
resident permit shall be made to the Department, in
writing, on forms prescribed by the Department, and shall
be accompanied by the required fee established by rule. The
application shall require information that, in the
judgment of the Department, will enable the Department to
pass on the qualifications of the applicant.
(3) A temporary visiting resident permit shall be valid
for 180 days from the date of issuance or until the time
the medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, or clinical
studies are completed, whichever occurs first.
(4) The applicant for a temporary visiting resident
permit may be required to appear before the Medical
Licensing Board for an interview prior to, and as a

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requirement for, the issuance of a temporary visiting
resident permit.
(Source: P.A. 95-915, eff. 8-26-08.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.