Bill Text: IL SB0677 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that for license or registration renewals occurring on or after January 1, 2023, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements must complete at least a one-hour course in training on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias per renewal period. Provides that the training shall include, but not be limited to, assessment and diagnosis, effective communication strategies, and management and care planning. Provides that the requirement shall only apply to health care professionals who provide health care services to adult populations age 26 or older in the practice of their profession. Provides that a health care professional may count that one hour for completion of the course toward meeting the minimum credit hours required for continuing education. Provides that any training on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias applied to meet any other State licensure requirement, professional accreditation or certification requirement, or health care institutional practice agreement may count toward the continuing education requirement. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may adopt rules for the implementation of the continuing education requirement. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 39-13)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0399 [SB0677 Detail]

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB0677 Introduced 2/25/2021, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 60/11 from Ch. 111, par. 4400-11
225 ILCS 60/20.1 new
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that not later than 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall adopt rules that require a person seeking licensure to practice medicine in all of its branches to have completed 3 hours of education on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Specifies that the education requirement shall only apply to applicants who serve or will serve adult populations and have or will have direct patient interactions in their capacity as physicians. Provides that not later than 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Department shall adopt rules that require any continuing education for persons licensed to practice medicine under all of its branches to include an average of one hour of continuing education per license year on the diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Specifies that the continuing education requirement shall only apply to persons who serve adult populations and have direct patient interactions in their capacity as physicians. Provides that the curriculum used for the education and continuing education requirements shall cover the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, including recognizing the signs and symptoms of dementia; person-centered care; assessment and care planning; and culturally competent health care.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning 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 11 and by adding Section 20.1 as follows:
(225 ILCS 60/11) (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-11)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2022)
Sec. 11. Minimum education standards. The minimum
standards of professional education to be enforced by the
Department in conducting examinations and issuing licenses
shall be as follows:
(A) Practice of medicine. For the practice of medicine
in all of its branches:
(1) For applications for licensure under
subsection (D) of Section 19 of this Act:
(a) that the applicant is a graduate of a
medical or osteopathic college in the United
States, its territories or Canada, that the
applicant has completed a 2 year course of
instruction in a college of liberal arts, or its
equivalent, and a course of instruction in a
medical or osteopathic college approved by the
Department or by a private, not for profit

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accrediting body approved by the Department, and
in addition thereto, a course of postgraduate
clinical training of not less than 12 months as
approved by the Department; or
(b) that the applicant is a graduate of a
medical or osteopathic college located outside the
United States, its territories or Canada, and that
the degree conferred is officially recognized by
the country for the purposes of licensure, that
the applicant has completed a 2 year course of
instruction in a college of liberal arts or its
equivalent, and a course of instruction in a
medical or osteopathic college approved by the
Department, which course shall have been not less
than 132 weeks in duration and shall have been
completed within a period of not less than 35
months, and, in addition thereto, has completed a
course of postgraduate clinical training of not
less than 12 months, as approved by the
Department, and has complied with any other
standards established by rule.
For the purposes of this subparagraph (b) an
applicant is considered to be a graduate of a
medical college if the degree which is conferred
is officially recognized by that country for the
purposes of receiving a license to practice

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medicine in all of its branches or a document is
granted by the medical college which certifies the
completion of all formal training requirements
including any internship and social service; or
(c) that the applicant has studied medicine at
a medical or osteopathic college located outside
the United States, its territories, or Canada,
that the applicant has completed a 2 year course
of instruction in a college of liberal arts or its
equivalent and all of the formal requirements of a
foreign medical school except internship and
social service, which course shall have been not
less than 132 weeks in duration and shall have
been completed within a period of not less than 35
months; that the applicant has submitted an
application to a medical college accredited by the
Liaison Committee on Medical Education and
submitted to such evaluation procedures, including
use of nationally recognized medical student tests
or tests devised by the individual medical
college, and that the applicant has satisfactorily
completed one academic year of supervised clinical
training under the direction of such medical
college; and, in addition thereto has completed a
course of postgraduate clinical training of not
less than 12 months, as approved by the

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Department, and has complied with any other
standards established by rule.
(d) Any clinical clerkships must have been
completed in compliance with Section 10.3 of the
Hospital Licensing Act, as amended.
(2) Effective January 1, 1988, for applications
for licensure made subsequent to January 1, 1988,
under Sections 9 or 17 of this Act by individuals not
described in paragraph (3) of subsection (A) of
Section 11 who graduated after December 31, 1984:
(a) that the applicant: (i) graduated from a
medical or osteopathic college officially
recognized by the jurisdiction in which it is
located for the purpose of receiving a license to
practice medicine in all of its branches, and the
applicant has completed, as defined by the
Department, a 6 year postsecondary course of study
comprising at least 2 academic years of study in
the basic medical sciences; and 2 academic years
of study in the clinical sciences, while enrolled
in the medical college which conferred the degree,
the core rotations of which must have been
completed in clinical teaching facilities owned,
operated or formally affiliated with the medical
college which conferred the degree, or under
contract in teaching facilities owned, operated or

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affiliated with another medical college which is
officially recognized by the jurisdiction in which
the medical school which conferred the degree is
located; or (ii) graduated from a medical or
osteopathic college accredited by the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education, the Committee on
Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools in
conjunction with the Liaison Committee on Medical
Education, or the Bureau of Professional Education
of the American Osteopathic Association; and,
(iii) in addition thereto, has completed 24 months
of postgraduate clinical training, as approved by
the Department; or
(b) that the applicant has studied medicine at
a medical or osteopathic college located outside
the United States, its territories, or Canada,
that the applicant, in addition to satisfying the
requirements of subparagraph (a), except for the
awarding of a degree, has completed all of the
formal requirements of a foreign medical school
except internship and social service and has
submitted an application to a medical college
accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical
Education and submitted to such evaluation
procedures, including use of nationally recognized
medical student tests or tests devised by the

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individual medical college, and that the applicant
has satisfactorily completed one academic year of
supervised clinical training under the direction
of such medical college; and, in addition thereto,
has completed 24 months of postgraduate clinical
training, as approved by the Department, and has
complied with any other standards established by
rule.
(3) (Blank).
(4) Any person granted a temporary license
pursuant to Section 17 of this Act who shall
satisfactorily complete a course of postgraduate
clinical training and meet all of the requirements for
licensure shall be granted a permanent license
pursuant to Section 9.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section an individual holding a temporary license
under Section 17 of this Act shall be required to
satisfy the undergraduate medical and post-graduate
clinical training educational requirements in effect
on the date of their application for a temporary
license, provided they apply for a license under
Section 9 of this Act and satisfy all other
requirements of this Section while their temporary
license is in effect.
(6) Not later than 12 months after the effective

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date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General
Assembly, the Department shall adopt rules that
require a person seeking licensure under this Act to
have completed 3 hours of education on the diagnosis,
treatment, and care of individuals with cognitive
impairments, including, but not limited to,
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This
requirement shall only apply to applicants who serve
or will serve adult populations and have or will have
direct patient interactions in their capacity as
physicians. The curriculum used for the training shall
cover the following topics: diagnosis of Alzheimer's
disease and other dementias, including recognizing the
signs and symptoms of dementia; person-centered care;
assessment and care planning; and culturally competent
health care, as defined in subsection (b) of Section
2310-216 of the Department of Public Health Powers and
Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of
Illinois.
(B) Treating human ailments without drugs and without
operative surgery. For the practice of treating human
ailments without the use of drugs and without operative
surgery:
(1) For an applicant who was a resident student
and who is a graduate after July 1, 1926, of a
chiropractic college or institution, that such school,

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college or institution, at the time of the applicant's
graduation required as a prerequisite to admission
thereto a 4 year course of instruction in a high
school, and, as a prerequisite to graduation
therefrom, a course of instruction in the treatment of
human ailments, of not less than 132 weeks in duration
and which shall have been completed within a period of
not less than 35 months except that as to students
matriculating or entering upon a course of
chiropractic study during the years 1940, 1941, 1942,
1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947, such elapsed time
shall be not less than 32 months, such high school and
such school, college or institution having been
reputable and in good standing in the judgment of the
Department.
(2) For an applicant who is a matriculant in a
chiropractic college after September 1, 1969, that
such applicant shall be required to complete a 2 year
course of instruction in a liberal arts college or its
equivalent and a course of instruction in a
chiropractic college in the treatment of human
ailments, such course, as a prerequisite to graduation
therefrom, having been not less than 132 weeks in
duration and shall have been completed within a period
of not less than 35 months, such college of liberal
arts and chiropractic college having been reputable

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and in good standing in the judgment of the
Department.
(3) For an applicant who is a graduate of a United
States chiropractic college after August 19, 1981, the
college of the applicant must be fully accredited by
the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on
Chiropractic Education or its successor at the time of
graduation. Such graduates shall be considered to have
met the minimum requirements which shall be in
addition to those requirements set forth in the rules
and regulations promulgated by the Department.
(4) For an applicant who is a graduate of a
chiropractic college in another country; that such
chiropractic college be equivalent to the standards of
education as set forth for chiropractic colleges
located in the United States.
(Source: P.A. 97-622, eff. 11-23-11.)
(225 ILCS 60/20.1 new)
Sec. 20.1. Continuing education; cognitive impairments.
Not later than 12 months after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly, the Department
shall adopt rules that require any continuing education for
persons licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches
under this Act to include an average of one hour of continuing
education per license year on the diagnosis, treatment, and

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care of individuals with cognitive impairments, including, but
not limited to, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This
requirement shall only apply to persons licensed under this
Act who serve adult populations and have direct patient
interactions in their capacity as physicians. The curriculum
used for the training shall cover the following topics:
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias,
including recognizing the signs and symptoms of dementia;
person-centered care; assessment and care planning; and
culturally competent health care, as defined in subsection (b)
of Section 2310-216 of the Department of Public Health Powers
and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois.