BILL NUMBER: AB 2214	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2014
	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 and 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.  Existing law abolishes
the division, provides for the board to handle the responsibilities
of the division, and deems a reference to the division to refer to
the board. 
   This bill would require the  division,  
board  in determining continuing education requirements, to
consider including a course in geriatric care for emergency room
physicians and surgeons.  The bill would make nonsubstantive,
technical, and conforming changes. 
   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   board  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  board  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   board  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   board  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   board  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   board  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   board  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   board  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   board 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   board  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 continuing education requirements, the
 division   board  shall give its highest
priority to considering a course on pain management.
   (k) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
 division   board shall consider including
a course in geriatric care for emergency room physicians and
surgeons.