Oklahoma § 59-3206 - Application requirements - Exam score - Certification Notarized statements

§ 59-3206. Application requirements - Exam score - Certification Notarized statements

A. All applicants for licensure as an anesthesiologist

assistant must submit an application as set forth in Section 5 of

this act. The applicant must submit two personalized and

individualized letters of recommendation from anesthesiologists.

Letters of recommendation must be composed and signed by the

applicant’s supervising physician, or, for recent graduates, the

faculty physician, and give details of the applicant’s clinical

skills and ability. Each letter must be addressed to the State

Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision and must have been

written no more than six (6) months prior to the filing of the

application for licensure.

B. The applicant must have obtained a passing score on the

examination administered through the NCCAA. The passing score shall

be established by the NCCAA.

C. The applicant must be certified in advanced cardiac life

support.

D. The applicant must submit notarized statements containing

the following information:

1. Completion of three (3) hours of all Category I, American

Medical Association Continuing Medical Education or American

Osteopathic Association approved Category I-A continuing education

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related to the practice of osteopathic medicine or under osteopathic

auspices which includes the topics of Human Immunodeficiency Virus

and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: the disease and its

spectrum of clinical manifestations; epidemiology of the disease;

related infections including TB; treatment, counseling, and

prevention; transmission from healthcare worker to patient and

patient to healthcare worker; universal precautions and isolation

techniques; and legal issues related to the disease. If the

applicant has not already completed the required continuing medical

education, upon submission of an affidavit of good cause, the

applicant shall be allowed six (6) months to complete this

requirement;

2. Completion of one (1) hour of continuing medical education

on domestic violence which includes information on the number of

patients in that professional's practice who are likely to be

victims of domestic violence and the number who are likely to be

perpetrators of domestic violence, screening procedures for

determining whether a patient has any history of being either a

victim or a perpetrator of domestic violence, and instruction on how

to provide such patients with information on, or how to refer such

patients to, resources in the local community, such as domestic

violence centers and other advocacy groups, that provide legal aid,

shelter, victim counseling, batterer counseling, or child protection

services, and which is approved by any state or federal government

agency, or nationally affiliated professional association, or any

provider of Category I or II American Medical Association Continuing

Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association approved

Category I-A continuing education related to the practice of

osteopathic medicine or under osteopathic auspices. Home study

courses approved by the above agencies shall be acceptable. If the

applicant has not already completed the required continuing medical

education, upon submission of an affidavit of good cause, the

applicant shall be allowed six (6) months to complete this

requirement; and

3. Completion of two (2) hours of continuing medical education

relating to prevention of medical errors which includes a study of

root cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient

safety, and which is approved by any state or federal government

agency, or nationally affiliated professional association, or any

provider of Category I or II American Medical Association Continuing

Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association approved

Category I-A continuing education related to the practice of

osteopathic medicine or under osteopathic auspices.

Added by Laws 2008, c. 161, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.