Amended in Assembly April 21, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2214

Introduced by Assembly Member Fox

February 20, 2014

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2214, as amended, Fox. Emergency room begin delete physicians: end delete begin insert physicians and surgeons: end insert continuing medical education: geriatric care.

Existing law begin insert , the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law end insert requires the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California to establish continuing education requirements for physicians and surgeons.

This bill begin delete , the Dolores H. Fox Act, end delete would require the division, in determining continuing education requirements, to begin delete include end delete begin insert consider including end insert a course in geriatric care for emergency room physicians begin insert and surgeons end insert .

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 begin delete continuation end delete begin insert continuing end insert 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 begin delete include end delete begin insert consider including end insert a course in geriatric care
for emergency room physicians begin insert and surgeons end insert .