Bill Text: NY A05235 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An act to amend the education law, in relation to medical education in pain management
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to higher education [A05235 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A05235-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5235
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 11, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. MENG, GREENE, N. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. PHEFFER, TITONE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to medical education in
pain management
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 6524 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
3 (12) PHYSICIAN EDUCATION UNDER SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION SHALL
4 INCLUDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PAIN MANAGEMENT AND END-OF-LIFE CARE,
5 INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, PAIN, NEUROPSYCHOLOG-
6 IC AND OTHER SYMPTOMS, ETHICS AND THE LAW, PATIENT AND FAMILY PERSPEC-
7 TIVES ON END-OF-LIFE CARE, ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT, AND CLINICAL COMMUNI-
8 CATION SKILLS, SUBJECT TO REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER, IF ANY.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January of the second
10 year after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05298-01-9
