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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, First Regular Session
health professionals; preceptorships
Purpose
Requires certain health profession regulatory boards (boards) to develop a preceptorship awareness campaign. Directs the Department of Health Services (DHS) to establish an online medical preceptorship availability list.
Background
Boards
are specifically tasked with regulating various health professionals in
Arizona. Health professionals are persons who are certified or licensed
by a board for: 1) podiatry;
2) chiropractic; 3) dentistry; 4) medicine and surgery as a physician; 5)
naturopathic medicine;
6) nursing; 7) dispensing opticians; 8) optometry; 9) osteopathic medicine; 10)
pharmacy;
11) physical therapy; 12) psychology; 13) veterinary medicine; 14) medicine as
a physician assistant; 15) radiologic technology; 16) homeopathic medicine; 17)
behavioral health;
18) occupational therapy; 19) respiratory care; 20) acupuncture; 21) athletic
training; 22) massage therapy; 23) nursing care institutions and assisted
living facilities; 24) midwifery; or 25) hearing aid dispensers, audiologists
and speech-language pathologists (A.R.S.
§ 32-3201). Current statute allows a board to grant authority to their
director to issue and approve a preceptorship to applicants who meet certain
criteria, including fulfilling all board-specific preceptorship requirements (A.R.S.
§ 32-3123).
Currently, the Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board issues certificates to eligible persons wishing to participate in a preceptorship. In order to be eligible, a person must have graduated from an approved school with a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree and submit an application to the Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board with an $100 initial fee. After obtaining certification, the person may engage in a preceptorship under the direct supervision of a licensed naturopathic physician. A preceptorship is a training program approved or recognized by the Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board for physicians or graduates of a naturopathic medicine school (A.R.S. §§ 32-1501; 32-1524; 32-1527; and 32-1561).
DHS provides and coordinates public health services and programs in Arizona by licensing and regulating various health care providers and health care institutions (A.R.S. § 36-132).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Requires the Arizona Medical Board, the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery and the Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants to develop a preceptorship awareness campaign that educates licensed health professionals on how to become a medical preceptor for students and the benefits of being a medical preceptor.
2. Requires DHS to establish an online medical preceptorship availability list to connect medical preceptors to students for preceptorships.
3. Allows a medical preceptor to request to display their place of business and contact information on the online medical preceptorship availability list, in a manner prescribed by DHS rule.
4. Exempts DHS from administrative hearing procedural requirements for the administration of the online medical preceptorship availability list.
5. Permits DHS to adopt rules for the implementation of the online medical preceptorship availability list.
6. Exempts DHS from rulemaking and review requirements regarding the administration of the online medical preceptorship availability list for 18 months after the general effective date of this legislation.
7. Defines preceptorship as a mentoring experience in which a medical preceptor provides a program of personalized instruction, training and supervision to a student to enable the student to obtain a health professional degree.
8. Excludes, from the definition of preceptorship, mentoring about abortion.
9. Defines medical preceptor as a licensed health professional who maintains an active practice in Arizona.
10. Defines student as an individual who is:
a) matriculating at the graduate level at an accredited higher education institution in Arizona; and
b) seeking a health professional degree to become licensed as specified.
11. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 8, 2021
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