Iowa § 272C.2C - 272C.2C Continuing education minimum requirements — medicine and surgery and

§ 272C.2C. 272C.2C Continuing education minimum requirements — medicine and surgery and

osteopathic medicine and surgery, nursing, dentistry, podiatry, and physician assistants. 1. The board of medicine, board of dentistry, board of physician assistants, board of podiatry, and board of nursing shall establish rules requiring a person licensed pursuant to section 148.3, 148C.3, 149.3, or 152.6 or chapter 153 who has prescribed opioids to a patient during the previous licensure cycle to receive continuing education credits regarding the United States centers for disease control and prevention guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain, including recommendations on limitations on dosages and the length of prescriptions, risk factors for abuse, and nonopioid and nonpharmacologic therapy options, as a condition of license renewal. Each licensing board shall have the authority to determine how often a licensee must receive continuing education credits. 2. The rules established pursuant to this section shall include the option for a licensee to attest as part of the license renewal process that the licensee is not subject to the requirement to receive continuing education credits pursuant to this section, due to the fact that the licensee did not prescribe opioids to a patient during the previous licensure cycle. 2018 Acts, ch 1138, §22 Thu Dec 11 19:26:14 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 272C.2C (7, 0)