BILL NUMBER: AB 2214	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fox

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 2191 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to physicians  and surgeons  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2214, as amended, Fox. Emergency room  physicians:
  physicians a   nd surgeons:  continuing
medical education: geriatric care.
   Existing law  , the Medical Practice Act, provides for the
licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical
Board of California. Existing law  requires the Division of
Licensing of the Medical Board of California to establish continuing
education requirements for physicians and surgeons.
   This bill  , the Dolores H. Fox Act,  would
require the division, in determining continuing education
requirements, to  include   consider including
 a course in geriatric care for emergency room physicians 
and surgeons  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the Dolores
H. Fox Act.
  SEC. 2.  Section 2191 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2191.  (a) In determining its continuing education requirements,
the Division of Licensing shall consider including a course in human
sexuality as defined in Section 2090 and nutrition to be taken by
those licensees whose practices may require knowledge in those areas.

   (b) The division shall consider including a course in child abuse
detection and treatment to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
abused or neglected children.
   (c) The division shall consider including a course in acupuncture
to be taken by those licensees whose practices may require knowledge
in the area of acupuncture and whose education has not included
instruction in acupuncture.
   (d) The division shall encourage every physician and surgeon to
take nutrition as part of his or her continuing education,
particularly a physician and surgeon involved in primary care.
   (e) The division shall consider including a course in elder abuse
detection and treatment to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
abused or neglected persons 65 years of age and older.
   (f) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
division shall consider including a course in the early detection and
treatment of substance abusing pregnant women to be taken by those
licensees whose practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood
of contact with these women.
   (g) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
division shall consider including a course in the special care needs
of drug addicted infants to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
these infants.
   (h) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
division shall consider including a course providing training and
guidelines on how to routinely screen for signs exhibited by abused
women, particularly for physicians and surgeons in emergency,
surgical, primary care, pediatric, prenatal, and mental health
settings. In the event the division establishes a requirement for
continuing education coursework in spousal or partner abuse detection
or treatment, that requirement shall be met by each licensee within
no more than four years from the date the requirement is imposed.
   (i) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
division shall consider including a course in the special care needs
of individuals and their families facing end-of-life issues,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Pain and symptom management.
   (2) The psycho-social dynamics of death.
   (3) Dying and bereavement.
   (4) Hospice care.
   (j) In determining its  continuation  
continuing  education requirements, the division shall give its
highest priority to considering a course on pain management.
   (k) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
division shall  include   consider including
 a course in geriatric care for emergency room physicians 
and surgeons  .