This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Medical Practice Act. Whenever a reference is made to the Medical Practice Act by the provisions of any statute, it is to be...

There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Medical Board of California that consists of 21 members, nine of whom shall be public members. The Governor shall appoint 19 members to...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the protection...

Unless otherwise expressly provided, the term board as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California....

The board shall consist of the following two divisions: a Division of Medical Quality, and a Division of Licensing. This section shall become operative on July 1, 1994....

The Division of Medical Quality shall have the responsibility for the following: (a) The enforcement of the disciplinary and criminal provisions of the Medical Practice Act. (b)...

The Division of Licensing shall have the responsibility for the following: (a) Approving undergraduate and graduate medical education programs. (b) Approving clinical clerkship and...

Members of the board shall only be appointed from persons who have been citizens of this state for at least five years next preceding their appointment. Members of the board, except...

The Division of Medical Quality shall consist of 14 members of the board, six of whom shall be public members. The Division of Licensing shall consist of seven members, three of whom...

All persons who, at the time this chapter goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this chapter, which offices are continued by this chapter, continue to hold...

Each member of the board shall be appointed for a term of four years. Vacancies occuring on the board shall be filled by appointment of the appointing power for the unexpired term....

The appointing power may remove any member of the board for neglect of duty required by this chapter, incompetency, or unprofessional conduct....

Each division of the board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a secretary from its members. The board may also elect a president, vice president, and secretary....

(a) The board and each division may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the board or a division. (b) Eight members of the Division of Medical Quality, and four members of...

Notice of each meeting of the board or a division shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...

The president of the board and each division may call meetings of any duly appointed and created committee of the board or division at a specified time and place....

Each member of the board and its committees shall receive per diem and travel expenses as provided in Section 103....

The board and each division shall keep an official record of all their proceedings....

Each division of the board may, within its jurisdiction, adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, such regulations as may be...

The office of the board shall be in the City of Sacramento. Suboffices may be established in the Cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco or the environs of such cities....

The board may employ an executive director exempt from the provisions of the Civil Service Act and may also employ investigators, legal counsel, medical consultants, and other assistance as it...

(a) If the board publishes a directory pursuant to Section 112, it may require persons licensed pursuant to this chapter to furnish any information as it may deem necessary to enable it...

The directory shall be prima facie evidence of the authority of the persons named therein to practice under this act, unless such authority has been revoked, suspended, or otherwise...

(a) The board may select and contract with necessary medical consultants who are licensed physicians and surgeons to assist it in its programs. Subject to Section 19130 of the Government...

The board through its regular mailing shall notify all licensees of the existence of pain management guidelines published by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research of the...

(a) On or after July 1, 2001, unless otherwise authorized by the Department of Information Technology pursuant to Executive Order D-3-99, the board shall post on the Internet...

(a) The Medical Board of California shall consult with the California State Board of Pharmacy and commission a study and report its results to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2003,...

The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives regarding the poor quality of care rendered by a licensee for 10 years from the date the board receives the complaint....

The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives regarding the poor quality of care rendered by a licensee for 10 years from the date the board receives the complaint. For...

The provisions of this chapter insofar as they are substantially the same as provisions relating to the same subject matter of previous medical practice acts shall be construed as restatements...

The rights given by any certificate issued under any preceding medical practice act are not affected by the enactment of this chapter, nor by the repeal of any law upon which such...

Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other organization, or any combination thereof, except that only natural persons shall be licensed...

Professional relates to the art and science of medicine and surgery and to such other arts and sciences as may be included within the field of medicine and surgery....

Medical licensing authority refers to any officer, board, commission, or department of another state upon whose certificate a reciprocity certificate may be issued....

Whenever any requirement is provided for any certificate, it shall be satisfied in a manner satisfactory to the appropriate division of the board charged with the responsibility...

Whenever a course of instruction is required for any certificate, it shall be satisfied by a resident course of medical instruction. Whenever a resident course of instruction is mentioned in...

Whenever any requirement is provided for any certificate relating to a medical school or hospital, or any reference is made to a medical school or hospital, the medical school and hospital...

Whenever the words diagnose or diagnosis are used in this chapter, they include any undertaking by any method, device, or procedure whatsoever, and whether gratuitous or not, to...

All certificates issued by the board shall state the extent and character of the practice which is permitted....

The terms license and certificate as used in this chapter are deemed to be synonomous....

The term licensee as used in this chapter means the holder of a physician's and surgeon's certificate or podiatrist's certificate, as the case may be, who is engaged in the...

The Division of Licensing shall issue one form of certificate to all physicians and surgeons licensed by the board which shall be designated as a physician's and surgeon's certificate....

The physician's and surgeon's certificate authorizes the holder to use drugs or devices in or upon human beings and to sever or penetrate the tissues of human beings and to use any and...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 146, any person who practices or attempts to practice, or who advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing, any system or mode of treating the...

(a) The proposed registration program developed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall provide that, for purposes of the proposed registration program: (1) A physician and surgeon practices medicine...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who complies with the requirements of Section 2053.6 shall not be in violation of Section 2051, 2052, or 2053 unless that person...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who complies with the requirements of Section 2053.6 shall not be in violation of Section 2051, 2052, or 2053 unless that person does...

(a) A person who provides services pursuant to Section 2053.5 that are not unlawful under Section 2051, 2052, or 2053 shall, prior to providing those services, do the following: (1) Disclose...

(a) Any person who uses in any sign, business card, or letterhead, or, in an advertisement, the words doctor or physician, the letters or prefix Dr., the initials M.D., or any other...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a physician's and surgeon's certificate by the Medical Board of California pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall...

(a) The purpose of this section is to provide protection against retaliation for physicians who advocate for medically appropriate health care for their patients pursuant to Wickline v. State...

(a) The purpose of this section is to ensure that health care service plans and their contracting entities do not enter into contracts with physicians and surgeons or other licensed...

(a) Nothing in this chapter prohibits service in the case of emergency, or the domestic administration of family remedies. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit obtaining...

Nothing in this chapter applies to any practitioner located outside this state, when in actual consultation, whether within this state or across state lines, with a licensed practitioner...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the practice of other persons licensed, certified, or registered under any other provision of law relating to the healing arts...

Testing and guidance programs in schools, colleges, and universities and physical fitness tests given by public and private agencies in connection with employment or issuance or...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to discriminate against any particular school of medicine or surgery, school or college of podiatric medicine, or any other treatment, nor shall...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved medical school, or to prevent...

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2064 or any other provisions of this chapter, a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in a...

No medical school or clinical training program shall deny access to elective clerkships or preceptorships in any medical school or clinical training program in this state solely on the...

Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident, postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of medicine, or receive compensation therefor, or...

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate from engaging in the practice of medicine whenever and wherever required as a part of a...

An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate who is found by the Division of Licensing to be deficient in the education and clinical instruction required by Sections 2089 and 2089.5...

This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit any person from providing nutritional advice or giving advice concerning proper nutrition. However, this section confers no authority...

State law allows any person to provide nutritional advice or give advice concerning proper nutrition--which is the giving of advice as to the role of food and food ingredients,...

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may administer medication only by intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections and perform skin...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical assistant may perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purposes of withdrawing blood upon specific authorization and...

The Division of Licensing shall adopt and administer regulations that establish standards for technical supportive services that may be performed by a medical assistant. Nothing in this...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the provisions of the State Civil Service Act, any person who is licensed to practice medicine in any other state, who meets...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who is licensed to practice medicine in any other state who meets the requirements for application set forth in this chapter, and...

Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the employment of a licensed physician and surgeon practicing in the specialty of ophthalmology by an optometrist licensed under the provisions of Chapter...

The performance of acupuncture by a certified acupuncturist or other licentiate legally authorized to practice acupuncture within his or her scope of practice or a person licensed or...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon who is licensed to practice medicine in another state or country shall be exempt from licensure requirements under...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon lawfully practicing medicine in another state or country may be exempted from licensure while practicing medicine...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon may delegate various orthopaedic medical tasks to individuals who have completed training as...

(a) As used in this section, DMSO means dimethyl sulfoxide....

(a) A physician and surgeon who desires to administer general anesthesia in the office of a dentist pursuant to Section 1646.9, shall provide the Medical Board of California with a copy...

(a) Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this article applicable to applications generally shall apply to all certificates issued. (b) Every applicant for a physician's and...

Each application shall be made upon a form provided by the Division of Licensing, and each application form shall contain a legal verification to be signed by the applicant verifying...

Each application shall include the following: (a) A diploma issued by an approved medical school. The requirements of the school shall have been at the time of granting the diploma in...

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each application for a certificate shall be accompanied by the fee required by this chapter and shall be filed with the Division of Licensing. (b)...

The Division of Licensing may approve every school which substantially complies with the requirements of this chapter for resident courses of professional instruction. Graduates...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2084, a graduate of an approved medical school located in the United States or Canada who has graduated from a special medical school program that...

The Division of Licensing may utilize medical consultants and investigators employed by the board pursuant to Section 2020 to evaluate the curricula of medical schools. A medical...

If any medical school is not approved by the Division of Licensing or any applicant for examination is rejected by it, then the school or the applicant may commence an action in the...

(a) Each applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall show by official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the Division of Licensing that he or...

(a) Clinical instruction in the subjects listed in subdivision (b) of Section 2089 shall meet the requirements of this section and shall be considered adequate if the requirements...

(a) The requirement of four weeks of clinical course instruction in family medicine shall apply only to those applicants for licensure who graduate from medical school or a school...

Human sexuality as used in Sections 2089 and 2191 means the study of a human being as a sexual being and how he or she functions with respect thereto....

The requirement that instruction in child abuse detection and treatment be provided shall apply only to applicants who matriculate on or after September 1, 1979....

The requirement that instruction in alcoholism and other chemical substance dependency be provided applies only to applicants who matriculate on or after September 1, 1985....

The requirements that instruction in spousal or partner abuse detection and treatment be provided shall apply only to applicants who matriculate on or after September 1, 1994. The requirement...

In addition to other requirements of this chapter, before a physician's and surgeon's license may be issued, each applicant, including an applicant applying pursuant to Article 5...

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Division of Licensing may delegate to any member of the division its authority to approve the admission of candidates to examinations...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an originating license for an osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall...

The provisions of this article shall apply to all applications of graduates of medical schools located outside the United States or Canada. Such applicants shall otherwise comply...

Any applicant whose professional instruction was acquired in a country other than the United States or Canada shall provide evidence satisfactory to the division of compliance with...

An applicant who is a citizen of the United States shall be eligible for a physician's and surgeon's certificate if he or she has completed the following requirements: (a) Official...

The Division of Licensing shall approve programs of supervised clinical training in hospitals for the purpose of providing basic clinical training to students who are graduates of foreign...

The board, in consultation with various medical schools located in California, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and executive directors and medical directors...

No hospital licensed by this state, or operated by the state or a political subdivision thereof, or which receives state financial assistance, directly or indirectly, shall require an...

(a) The Legislature intends that the Division of Licensing shall have the authority to substitute postgraduate education and training to remedy deficiencies in an applicant's medical...

(a) Physicians who are not citizens but who meet the requirements of subdivision (b), are legally admitted to the United States, and who seek postgraduate study in an approved medical...

(a) Physicians who are not citizens but are legally admitted to the United States and who seek postgraduate study, may, after application to and approval by the Division of Licensing,...

(a) Any person who does not immediately qualify for a physician's and surgeon's certificate under this chapter and who is offered by the dean of an approved medical school in this...

(a) Physicians who are not citizens but are legally admitted to the United States and who seek postgraduate study may, after application to and approval by the Division of Licensing, be permitted...

The Division of Licensing shall issue a physician and surgeon' s certificate to an applicant who meets all of the following requirements: (a) The applicant holds an unlimited license as...

Upon review and recommendation, the Division of Licensing may determine that an applicant for a physician and surgeon's certificate has satisfied the medical curriculum requirements of Section...

(a) An applicant under this article shall file a verified application on a form furnished by the Division of Licensing. (b) Each application shall include all of the following: (1) A list...

An applicant for a reciprocity certificate need not have completed the first year of postgraduate training required in Section 2096 prior to the issuance of a license in another state,...

The Division of Licensing may make an independent investigation of the educational qualifications and the ability and standing of the applicant. If, after this investigation and any other...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Division of Licensing may issue a physician and surgeon's certificate to a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners...

In addition to the requirements of Section 164, a certificate issued under this article shall include in its description the basis upon which the certificate was issued....

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall issue an osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificate on reciprocity to an...

There is hereby established in the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California, the California Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002, which shall become operative on...

It is the intent of this article that the Division of Licensing, in consultation with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the medical community,...

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) Division means the Division of Licensing. (b) Office means the Office of Statewide Health...

(a) Program applicants shall possess a current valid license to practice medicine in this state issued by the board pursuant to Section 2050. (b) The division, in accordance with...

(a) The Medically Underserved Account is hereby created in the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. (b) The sum of three million four hundred fifty thousand...

The terms of loan repayment granted under this article shall be as follows: (a) After a program participant has completed one year of providing services as a physician in a...

Pursuant to Section 2313, the division shall also include the following in its annual report: (a) Number of the program participants. (b) Practice locations. (c) Amount expended for...

(a) On January 1, 2003, applications from physicians for program participation may be submitted. (b) The division shall report to the Legislature, no later than October 1, 2004, the...

For the purposes of this article: (a) Division means the Division of Licensing. (b) The practice of medicine means all activities authorized by a physician's and surgeon's...

The interest to be paid shall be two percentage points less than the authorized interest rate on California Water Bonds at the time of the loan....

The loan shall be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California in equal or graduated periodic installments, according to a schedule agreed upon by the division...

Where any borrower who has obtained one or more loans under this article engages in the practice of medicine in an area deficient in physician services, 25 percent of the total of such...

The liability to repay the unpaid balance of the loan and accrued interest thereon shall be cancelled upon the death of the borrower, or if the division determines that he or she...

The division may assess a charge with respect to a loan made under this article for failure of the borrower to pay all or part of an installment when due and, in the case of a borrower...

(a) A special faculty permit authorizes the holder to practice medicine only within the medical school itself and any affiliated institution in which the permitholder is providing instruction...

(a) Any person who meets all of the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special faculty permit: (1) Is academically eminent. For purposes of this article, academically...

An application for a special faculty permit shall be made on a form prescribed by the Division of Licensing and shall include any information that the Division of Licensing may...

A special faculty permit may be denied, suspended, or revoked for any violation that would be grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of a physician and surgeon's certificate, or...

(a) A special faculty permit expires and becomes invalid at midnight on the last day of the permitholder's birth month during the second year of a two-year term, if not renewed. (b) A...

The Medical Board of California shall report to the Legislature by December 31, 2002, on the implementation and status of the special faculty permit program....

(a) All applicants for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall take the examination provided for in this article unless provisions of this chapter otherwise provide. (b) The provisions...

All examinations shall be designed to ascertain the applicant' s fitness to practice medicine. Unless otherwise provided the examination shall be in writing....

The Division of Licensing may appoint qualified persons to give the whole or any portion of any examination as provided in this chapter, who shall be designated as examination commissioners....

The examination shall be conducted in the English language. Upon the submission of satisfactory proof from the applicant that he or she is unable to meet the requirements of the...

The examinations may be conducted in any part of the state or another state designated by the Division of Licensing. A notice of each examination administered by the divison shall specify...

Examination records shall be kept on file by the Division of Licensing for a period of two years or more. Examinees shall be known and designated by number only, and the name attached to...

Examinations for a physician's and surgeon's certificate may be conducted by the Division of Licensing under a uniform examination system, and for that purpose the division may make...

(a) A passing score is required for an entire examination or for each part of an examination, as established by resolution of the Division of Licensing. (b) Applicants may elect to take...

The Division of Licensing shall insure that nutrition is included on the examination for a certificate as a physician and surgeon....

An applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate shall pass the national examination for medical licensure in biomedical sciences and clinical sciences, including...

(a) Each applicant shall obtain on the written examination a passing score, established by the division pursuant to Section 2177....

An applicant who is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners shall not be required to take the written examination prescribed by this article, provided such applicant...

In order to insure the continuing competence of licensed physicians and surgeons the Division of Licensing shall adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of such...

(a) The continuing medical education standards of Section 2190 may be met by educational activities that meet the standards of the Division of Licensing and serve to maintain, develop,...

The Division of Licensing shall establish criteria that providers of continuing medical education shall follow to ensure attendance by licensees throughout the entire course....

The Division of Licensing shall establish criteria that providers of continuing medical education shall follow to ensure attendance by licensees throughout the entire course....

All general internists and family physicians who have a patient population of which over 25 percent are 65 years of age or older shall complete at least 20 percent of all...

(a) All physicians and surgeons shall complete a mandatory continuing education course in the subjects of pain management and the treatment of terminally ill and dying patients. For...

(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...

The Division of Licensing shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take a course in pharmacology and pharmaceuticals as part of his or her continuing education....

The division shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take a course in geriatric medicine, including geriatric pharmacology, as part of his or her continuing education....

The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding the detection and treatment of child abuse and neglect to each licensed physician...

The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding the detection and treatment of elder abuse and neglect to each licensed physician...

The board shall periodically develop and disseminate information and educational material regarding pain management techniques and procedures to each licensed physician and surgeon and to...

The board shall periodically disseminate information and educational material regarding the detection and treatment of spousal or partner abuse to each licensed physician and surgeon and...

(a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act of 2003. The cultural and linguistic physician competency program...

For purposes of this article, cultural and linguistic competency means cultural and linguistic abilities that can be incorporated into therapeutic and medical evaluation...

California is currently experiencing a geographical and specialty maldistribution of physicians and surgeons. It is the intent of the Legislature to address these problems by...

For the purposes of this article: (a) Commission means the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission. (b) Division means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board...

The division shall administer the loan program to licensed physicians and surgeons....

No licensed physician and surgeon shall be awarded a loan under this article unless he or she meets the following requirements:...

Applications for loans shall be made to the division, upon forms provided by it, at the times and in the manner prescribed by the regulations adopted by the division....

The division shall award loans on the basis of local need and those areas of the state which are deficient in primary care services, as determined by the commission, to applicants...

Loans made pursuant to this article shall be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California or cancelled under the following conditions: (a) A licensed physician...

The liability to repay the loan shall be cancelled upon the death of the borrower, or if the division determines that he or she has become permanently disabled and is unable to...

(a) In addition to the principal of the loan, interest shall accrue on the principal of all loans made at a rate which shall be two percentage points less than the authorized interest...

The division may assess a charge with respect to a loan made under this article for failure of the borrower to pay all or part of an installment when due and, in the case of a borrower...

The commission shall, under the provisions of this article, make a determination in priority as to which areas of the state are deficient in primary care services and the degree to...

The Legislature finds and declares that in this state, significant surgeries are being performed in unregulated out-of-hospital settings. The Legislature further finds and declares that...

On or after July 1, 1996, no physician and surgeon shall perform procedures in an outpatient setting using anesthesia, except local anesthesia or peripheral nerve blocks, or both, complying...

On and after July 1, 2000, it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to perform procedures in any outpatient setting except in compliance with Section 2216, unless the setting has...

(a) It is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to fail to provide adequate security by liability insurance, or by participation in an interindemnity trust, for claims...

The Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California may adopt regulations to implement this article and Chapter 1.3 (commencing with Section 1248) of Division 2 of the Health...

Except as otherwise provided by law, the Division of Medical Quality may take action against all persons guilty of violating this chapter. The division shall enforce and administer this...

(a) In order to ensure that its resources are maximized for the protection of the public, the Medical Board of California shall prioritize its investigative and prosecutorial resources...

(a) Except for reports received by the board pursuant to Section 805 that may be treated as complaints by the board, any complaint determined to involve quality of care, before referral to...

(a) (1) The director shall appoint a Medical Board of California Enforcement Program Monitor prior to March 31, 2003. The director may retain a person for this position by a...

(a) The Medical Board of California is the only licensing board that is authorized to investigate or commence disciplinary actions relating to physicians and surgeons who have been...

The board shall investigate any licensee against whom an information or indictment has been filed that alleges a violation of Section 550 of the Penal Code or Section 1871.4 of the...

(a) The Division of Licensing may deny a physician's and surgeon's license to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct or of any cause that would subject a licensee to...

(a) The board and the Board of Podiatric Medicine shall investigate and may take disciplinary action, including, but not limited to, revocation or suspension of licenses, against...

The California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall enforce and administer this article as to doctors of podiatric medicine. Any acts of unprofessional conduct or other violations proscribed...

All administrative and disciplinary proceedings which are not final prior to December 12, 1975, shall be brought to a final determination under the procedures set forth in the...

The Division of Medical Quality may delegate the authority under this chapter to conduct investigations and inspections and to institute proceedings to the executive director of the board...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2263 and any other provision of law making a communication between a physician and surgeon or a podiatrist and his or her patients a privileged...

The board, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the Attorney General, shall return any original documents received pursuant to Section 2225 to the licensee from whom they...

The board, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the Attorney General, shall return any original documents received pursuant to Section 2225 to the licensee from whom they...

(a) (1) A licensee who fails or refuses to comply with a request for the medical records of a patient, that is accompanied by that patient's written authorization for release of records to...

The Division of Medical Quality or the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Health Quality Enforcement Section may inspect a licensed general or specialized hospital and require reports from...

(a) A licensee whose matter has been heard by an administrative law judge of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel as designated in Section 11371 of the Government Code, or whose default has...

The board shall keep a copy of a complaint it receives concerning the unprofessional conduct of a licensee for seven years or until the statute of limitations for filing an accusation...

The authority of the board or a division of the board, or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine to discipline a licensee by placing him or her on probation includes, but is not limited...

(a) Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Division of Medical Quality, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and administrative law judges of the...

(a) All proceedings against a licensee for unprofessional conduct, or against an applicant for licensure for unprofessional conduct or cause, shall be conducted in accordance...

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (e), any accusation filed against a licensee pursuant to Section 11503 of the Government Code shall be filed within three years...

An administrative law judge as designated in Section 11371 of the Government Code may utilize the procedures in Section 11515 of the Government Code concerning any matters which may be...

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the board shall promptly revoke the license of any person who is subject to or becomes subject to Section 290 of the Penal Code. (2) This section...

The Division of Medical Quality may, by stipulation or settlement with the affected physician and surgeon, issue a public letter of reprimand after it has conducted an investigation...

The Division of Medical Quality shall take action against any licensee who is charged with unprofessional conduct. In addition to other provisions of this article, unprofessional...

Upon referral from the division, the Senior Assistant Attorney General of the Health Quality Enforcement Section shall initiate action against any licensee who obtains a certificate by fraud...

(a) The conviction of any offense substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a physician and surgeon constitutes unprofessional conduct within the meaning...

(a) A physician and surgeon's certificate shall be suspended automatically during any time that the holder of the certificate is incarcerated after conviction of a felony, regardless of...

(a) The conviction of a charge of violating any federal statutes or regulations or any statute or regulation of this state, regulating dangerous drugs or controlled...

A violation of any federal statute or federal regulation or any of the statutes or regulations of this state regulating dangerous drugs or controlled substances constitutes unprofessional conduct....

(a) The use or prescribing for or administering to himself or herself, of any controlled substance; or the use of any of the dangerous drugs specified in Section 4022, or of...

(a) Any physician and surgeon who performs a scheduled medical procedure outside of a general acute care hospital, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code,...

Unless otherwise provided by this section, the prescribing, selling, furnishing, giving away, or administering or offering to prescribe, sell, furnish, give away, or administer any of the...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon may prescribe or administer controlled substances to a person in the course of the physician and surgeon's treatment...

The Division of Medical Quality shall develop standards before June 1, 2002, to assure the competent review in cases concerning the management, including, but not limited to,...

(a) Prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing dangerous drugs as defined in Section 4022 without a good faith prior examination and medical indication therefor, constitutes unprofessional conduct. ...

(a) No person or entity may prescribe, dispense, or furnish, or cause to be prescribed, dispensed, or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, as defined in Section 4022, on the...

Upon referral by the National Health Services Corps to the Attorney General of the United States of any physician or surgeon who fails to provide service as a general practitioner or...

A physician and surgeon who collects biological specimens for clinical testing or examination shall secure or ensure that his or her employees, agents, or contractors secure those specimens...

A violation of Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 1646) of Chapter 4 or Section 1682 by a physician and surgeon who possesses a permit issued by the Dental Board of California to...

Any proposed decision or decision issued under this article that contains any finding of fact that the licensee engaged in any act of sexual exploitation, as described in paragraphs (3)...

(a) A licensee shall meet the requirements set forth in subdivision (f) of Section 1031 of the Government Code prior to performing either of the following: (1) An evaluation of a peace...

This section shall be known as, and may be cited as, the Grant H. Kenyon Prostate Cancer Detection Act. (a) If a physician and surgeon, during a physical examination, examines a...

(a) A standardized written summary in layman's language and in a language understood by patients shall be approved by the State Department of Health Services. The department may approve...

(a) A physician and surgeon primarily responsible for providing a patient an annual gynecological examination shall provide that patient during the annual examination in layperson's...

The willful failure to comply with the requirements of Article 6 (commencing with Section 14191) of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and...

The prescribing, dispensing, administering, or furnishing of liquid silicone for the purpose of injecting such substance into a human breast or mammary constitutes unprofessional conduct....

The violation of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 109250) of Part 4 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, or any violation of an injunction or cease and desist order issued...

(a) Failure to comply with the Reproductive Privacy Act (Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 123460) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code)...

The violation of Section 123440 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to research on aborted products of human conception, constitutes unprofessional conduct....

The violation of any provision of Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 1400) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the unlawful referral of patients to extended...

Any intentional violation of Sections 5326.2 to 5326.8, inclusive, of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to the rights of involuntarily confined inpatients,...

The violation of Section 109275 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to informed consent for the treatment of breast cancer, constitutes unprofessional conduct....

The violation of Section 1708.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the use of laetrile or amygdalin with respect to cancer therapy, constitutes unprofessional conduct....

(a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient a copy of the standardized written summary, as developed pursuant to subdivision (e), describing silicone implants used in...

(a) A physician and surgeon shall give each patient a copy of the standardized written summary, as developed pursuant to subdivision (e), describing collagen injections used in...

The Medical Board of California shall adopt extraction and postoperative care standards in regard to body liposuction procedures performed by a physician and surgeon outside of a general...

(a) A physician and surgeon who removes sperm or ova from a patient shall, before the sperm or ova are used for a purpose other than reimplantation in the same patient or implantation in...

A violation of Section 24185 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to human cloning, constitutes unprofessional conduct....

Knowingly making or signing any certificate or other document directly or indirectly related to the practice of medicine or podiatry which falsely represents the existence or nonexistence...

Altering or modifying the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or creating any false medical record, with fraudulent intent, constitutes unprofessional conduct. In addition...

The willful, unauthorized violation of professional confidence constitutes unprofessional conduct....

The employing, directly or indirectly, the aiding, or the abetting of any unlicensed person or any suspended, revoked, or unlicensed practitioner to engage in the practice of medicine or...

The supervision, use, or employment of a physician's assistant who is licensed or practicing under interim approval, without the approval of the Division of Licensing,...

The failure of a physician and surgeon to maintain adequate and accurate records relating to the provision of services to their patients constitutes unprofessional conduct....

Any advertising in violation of Section 17500, relating to false or misleading advertising, constitutes unprofessional conduct....

Any advertising of the practice of medicine in which the licensee fails to use his or her own name or approved fictitious name constitutes unprofessional conduct....

(a) Except as otherwise allowed by law, the employment of runners, cappers, steerers, or other persons to procure patients constitutes unprofessional conduct. (b) A licensee shall have his...

The use by any licensee of any certificate, of any letter, letters, word, words, term, or terms either as a prefix, affix, or suffix indicating that he or she is entitled to engage in...

Any person who held a physician's and surgeon's certificate under the jurisdiction of the Osteopathic Medical Board of California and a degree of doctor of medicine issued by a...

Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in this chapter has been granted the degree of doctor of osteopathy after the completion of a full course of study as prescribed by...

Unless the holder of any certificate provided for in this chapter has been granted the degree of doctor of podiatric medicine after the completion of a full course of study as prescribed...

Unless a person authorized under this chapter to use the title doctor or the letters or prefix Dr. holds a physician's and surgeon's certificate, the use of such title, letters,...

No licensee shall practice medicine while under the influence of any narcotic drug or alcohol to such an extent as to impair his or her ability to conduct the practice of medicine with safety...

A physician and surgeon or a student undertaking a course of professional instruction or a clinical training program, may not perform a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious...

The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having five or more physicians and surgeons on the medical staff, which does not have rules established by...

The regular practice of medicine in a licensed general or specialized hospital having less than five physicians and surgeons on the medical staff, which does not have rules established...

(a) A licensed physician and surgeon or a licensed podiatrist, or a group of physicians and surgeons or podiatrists, or a medical or podiatry corporation shall not share in any fee charged by...

The use of any fictitious, false, or assumed name, or any name other than his or her own by a licensee either alone, in conjunction with a partnership or group, or as the name of...

It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for any licensee to violate, to attempt to violate, directly or indirectly, to assist in or abet the violation of, or to conspire to violate...

The purchase, sale, or barter, or offering to purchase, sell, or barter any medical or podiatric degree, or any degree, diploma, certificate, affidavit, transcript, or other evidence...

The impersonation of any applicant or acting as proxy for any applicant in any examination required under this chapter for a certificate constitutes unprofessional conduct....

The impersonation of another licensed practitioner or permitting or allowing another person to use his or her certificate to engage in the practice of medicine or podiatric...

The provisions of Article 4 (commencing with Section 580) of Chapter 1, relating to frauds of medical records, degrees, diplomas, certificates, and transcripts are not affected by the...

(a) (1) For the purposes of this section, telemedicine means the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data, and education...

It is unprofessional conduct for any licensee not a member or authorized official of the board, or of the California Board of Podiatric Medicine in the case of a doctor of podiatric medicine,...

(a) A licensee may be ordered to undergo a professional competency examination if, after investigation and review by a medical expert designated by the division or the Board of...

(a) The professional competency examination shall be in the form of an oral clinical examination to be administered by three physician examiners selected by the division or its...

(a) If the division proceeds pursuant to the provisions of Sections 2292 and 2293 and the physician passes the professional competency examination administered, the division shall...

The revocation, suspension, or other discipline, restriction, or limitation imposed by another state upon a license or certificate to practice medicine issued by that state, or...

If a licensee's right to practice medicine is suspended, he or she shall not engage in the practice of medicine during the term of such suspension. Upon the expiration of the term...

(a) A person whose certificate has been surrendered while under investigation or while charges are pending or whose certificate has been revoked or suspended or placed on probation,...

(a) If a physician and surgeon possesses a license or is otherwise authorized to practice medicine (1) in any state other than California or (2) by any agency of the federal government...

Whenever any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute an offense against this chapter, the superior court of any...

The Division of Medical Quality shall seek to obtain an injunction against any physician and surgeon within its jurisdiction if the division has reasonable cause to believe that...

The Division of Medical Quality shall report annually to the Legislature, no later than October 1 of each year, the following information: (a) The total number of temporary restraining...

(a) Unless it is otherwise expressly provided, any person, whether licensed under this chapter or not, who violates any provision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) A...

(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, any person found guilty of a misdemeanor for a violation of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200)...

If a person, not a regular employee of the board, is hired, under contract, or retained under any other arrangement, paid or unpaid, to provide expertise or nonexpert testimony to the...

In addition to any immunity afforded by Sections 43.8 and 47 of the Civil Code, if applicable, any person, including, but not limited to, a physician and surgeon, hospital, health...

(a) The board shall set as a goal the improvement of its disciplinary system by January 1, 1992, so that an average of no more than six months will elapse from the receipt of complaint...

Complainants against licensees of the board, including licensees of allied health boards within the jurisdiction of the board, and of the Board of Podiatric Medicine, who are subject...

(a) The Division of Medical Quality or the Health Quality Enforcement Section of the office of the Attorney General may establish panels or lists of experts as necessary to assist them...

(a) All proposed decisions and interim orders of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel designated in Section 11371 of the Government Code shall be transmitted to the executive director of the...

The Division of Medical Quality and the California Board of Podiatric Medicine shall adopt rules, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, superior court review of a decision revoking, suspending, or restricting a license shall take preference over all other civil actions in the...

It is the intent of the Legislature that the Medical Board of California seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physicians and surgeons with impairment due to abuse of dangerous drugs...

As used in this article: (a) Division means the Division of Medical Quality of the Medical Board of California. (b) Committee means a diversion evaluation committee created...

One or more diversion evaluation committees is hereby created in the state to be established by the division. Each committee shall be composed of five persons appointed by the division. ...

Each member of a committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....

A committee created under this article operates in an advisory role to the program manager. Three members of a committee, at least one of whom shall be a public member with...

Each committee shall elect from its membership a chairperson and a vice chairperson....

The division shall administer the provisions of this article....

(a) The division shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of physicians and surgeons in a diversion program. Only those physicians and surgeons who...

The committee shall inform each physician and surgeon who requests participation in a program of the procedures followed in the program, of the rights and responsibilities of the...

Each committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate those physicians and surgeons who request participation in the program according to the...

The program shall provide information to the division as it may prescribe to assist it in evaluating the program, directing the program's operation, or proposing changes to the program....

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to public meetings, a...

Each physician and surgeon who requests participation in a diversion program shall agree to cooperate with the treatment and monitoring program designated by the program manager. Any...

(a) After the program manager has determined that a physician and surgeon has been rehabilitated and the diversion program is completed, the program manager shall purge and destroy...

The board shall provide for the representation and indemnification of any persons making reports to a committee or the board under this article in any action in accordance...

It is the intent of the Legislature that the Osteopathic Medical Board of California seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate osteopathic physicians and surgeons whose competency...

As used in this article: (a) Board means the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. (b) Diversion program means a treatment program created by this article for osteopathic...

One or more diversion evaluation committees are hereby created in the state to be established by the board. The board shall establish criteria and appoint the members of the...

Each member of the committee shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....

The board shall administer this article....

(a) The board shall establish criteria for the acceptance, denial, or termination of participants in the diversion program. Unless ordered by the board as a condition of...

Each committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate those licensees who request participation in the program according to the guidelines prescribed by...

(a) Each licensee who requests participation in a treatment program shall agree to cooperate with the treatment program designed by the committee. The committee shall inform each participant...

An administrative fee to be established by the board, may be charged for participation in the program; all costs of treatment shall be paid by the participant. These fees shall be...

(a) After a committee, in its discretion, has determined that a participant has been rehabilitated and the program is completed, the committee shall purge and destroy all records pertaining...

The board shall provide for the representation of any persons making reports to the diversion evaluation committee or to the board under this article in any action for defamation for...

There is created within the board a Bureau of Medical Statistics. The purpose of the bureau is to provide the board and its divisions with statistical information necessary to carry...

As used in this article, bureau means the Bureau of Medical Statistics....

The bureau shall conduct such research, including the gathering of appropriate statistics, as deemed desirable by the board and its divisions and related to their functions. The bureau...

The bureau may prepare and issue the information questionnaire and report therefrom as required in Chapter 1.6 (commencing with Section 920)....

The bureau shall be the repository for all reports filed with the board pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with Section 800) of Chapter 2, and pursuant to Section 2220....

The board shall report at least annually to the Legislature on the data collected by the bureau pursuant to this article. Such reports and any data not privileged or confidential under...

No licensee, who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person in...

(a) A licensee who serves on an on-call basis to a hospital emergency room, who in good faith renders emergency obstetrical services to a person while serving on-call, shall not be liable...

No licensee, who in good faith upon the request of another person so licensed, renders emergency medical care to a person for medical complication arising from prior care by another...

No licensee, who in good faith upon the request of another person so licensed, renders emergency medical care to a person for medical complication arising from prior care by another...

(a) A licensee shall not be liable for civil damages for injury or death caused in an emergency situation occurring in the licensee's office or in a hospital on account of a failure to...

No licensee, who in good faith and without compensation renders voluntary emergency medical assistance to a participant in a community college or high school athletic event or contest, at...

Corporations and other artificial legal entities shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers. However, the Division of Licensing may in its discretion, after such...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2400, a clinic operated primarily for the purpose of medical education by a public or private nonprofit university medical school, which is approved by the Division...

(a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Due to the large number of uninsured and underinsured Californians, a number of California communities are having great difficulty...

The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to a medical or podiatry corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act (Part 4 (commencing with Section...

The provisions of Section 2400 do not apply to a medical or podiatry corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act (Part 4 (commencing with Section...

A medical corporation or podiatry corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Sections 13401 and 13401.5 of the Corporations Code, so long...

A medical or podiatry corporation shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2285 and 2415....

Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a medical or podiatry corporation, except an assistant secretary...

The income of a medical and podiatry corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the...

A medical or podiatry corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute or regulation...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the offering and operation by a medical corporation of a health care service plan licensed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2.2...

The Division of Licensing may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article and the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act including...

This article shall apply to medical corporations which have physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California as shareholders, officers, and directors only...

(a) Any physician and surgeon or any doctor of podiatric medicine, as the case may be, who as a sole proprietor, or in a partnership, group, or professional corporation, desires to...

(f) The division or the board may revoke or suspend any permit issued if it finds that the holder or holders of the permit are not in compliance with the provisions of this section or...

Physicians and surgeons and podiatrists may conduct their professional practices in a partnership or group of physicians and surgeons or a partnership or group of...

Physicians and surgeons and podiatrists may conduct their professional practices in a partnership or group of physicians and surgeons or a partnership or group of...

(a) If the Department of Insurance has evidence that a business is being operated in violation of this chapter, Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400) of Division 3 of the Corporations Code,...

The provisions of this article apply to, determine the expiration of, and govern the renewal of, each of the following certificates, licenses, registrations, and permits issued by or...

As used in this article, the terms: (a) License includes certificate, permit, and registration....

All licenses expire and become invalid at 12 midnight on the last day of February of each even-numbered year if not renewed. To renew an unexpired license, a licensee shall, on or...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2422: (1) All physician and surgeon's certificates, certificates to practice podiatric medicine, registrations of spectacle lens dispensers and contact...

(a) The Division of Licensing or the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, as the case may be, shall notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, any physician and...

(a) The Division of Licensing may prepare and mail to every licensed physician at the time of license renewal a questionnaire containing any questions as are necessary to establish that...

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Currently, California is experiencing an access to health care crisis that, in large measure, is the result of...

(a) The Medical Board of California shall request that a licensed physician report to the board at the time of license renewal any specialty board certification he or she holds issued by...

(a) A licensee shall report to the board at the time of renewal of a license any financial interest that the licensee or a member of the licensee's immediate family may have in...

(a) Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration on filing an application for renewal on a form...

(a) A person who fails to renew his or her license within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not be reissued, reinstated, or restored thereafter, but that person...

(a) A license which is suspended for unprofessional conduct is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the licensee,...

Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may require and accompanied by the required duplicate certificate fee, if any, a...

Upon filing an application therefor, containing such information as the licensing authority may require and accompanied by the required endorsement fee, if any, the licensure or credentials of...

The following fees apply to the licensure of physicians and surgeons: (a) Each applicant for a certificate based upon a national board diplomate certificate, each applicant for a...

(a) In addition to the fees charged for the initial issuance or biennial renewal of a physician and surgeon's certificate pursuant to Section 2435, and at the time those fees are charged, the...

The fees in this article fixed by the board shall be set forth as emergency regulations duly adopted by the Division of Licensing....

The board may fix a fee for the approval of postgraduate training for clinical service programs approved by the Division of Licensing at an amount equal to the cost to the division...

(a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee provided the licensee has practiced medicine or podiatry for 20 years or more in this state, has reached the age of...

(a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee and requirement for continuing medical education if the licensee has applied to the Division of Licensing for a retired license....

(a) Every licensee is exempt from the payment of the renewal fee while engaged in full-time training or active service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines, or in the United...

Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice medicine due to a disability may request a waiver of the license renewal fee. The granting of...

The renewal fee shall be waived for a physician and surgeon who certifies to the Medical Board of California that license renewal is for the sole purpose of providing voluntary, unpaid service....

The following fees apply to fictitious-name permits issued under Section 2415: (a) The initial permit fee shall be fifty dollars ($50). If the permit will expire less than one year after...

All moneys paid to and received by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. Those moneys shall...

Unless otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, all fines imposed or forfeitures of bail collected by any court in connection with any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall,...

The board shall refund any fees, fines, or forfeitures in accordance with the provisions of Section 158. The board may expend from its contingent fund whatever sums may be necessary to...

Notwithstanding the possession by a licensee of a renewal receipt or other acknowledgement of renewal of licensure, a license issued and renewed may, at any time, be suspended,...

There is a Board of Osteopathic Examiners of the State of California, established by the Osteopathic Act, which shall be known as the Osteopathic Medical Board of California which...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...

The words Medical Board of California, the term board, or any reference to a division of the Medical Board of California as used in this chapter shall be deemed to mean the...

This chapter applies to the Osteopathic Medical Board of California so far as consistent with the Osteopathic Act. Unless otherwise provided, this article is administered by the board....

(a) It is the policy of this state that holders of M.D. degrees and D.O. degrees shall be accorded equal professional status and privileges as licensed physicians and surgeons. ...

Individuals possessing physician's and surgeon's certificates issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not hold themselves out to be board certified unless the...

In order to ensure the continuing competence of licensed osteopathic physicians and surgeons, the board shall adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of those licensees. ...

The amount of fees and refunds is that established by the following schedule for any certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. All other fees and refunds...

(a) Each person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California residing in or out of California shall pay to the secretary-treasurer of the board an annual tax...

All osteopathic physician's and surgeon's certificates shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the birth month of the licensee during the second year of a two-year term if not renewed...

(a) The board shall notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, any physician and surgeon who does not renew his or her license within 60 days from its date of expiration....

Except as provided in Section 2429, a license which has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing an application for renewal on a form prescribed by...

The failure of any person holding a certificate issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California to pay the annual tax and registration fee during the time his or her certificate...

(a) In addition to Article 12 (commencing with Section 2220), the charging, or obtaining of an unconscionable fee for professional services rendered to a patient by an osteopathic physician...

When the prosecution for a violation of this chapter is initiated by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, 75 percent of all fines and forfeitures of bail shall be paid upon...

The Osteopathic Medical Board of California shall not issue any drugless practitioner's certificates under this chapter or any other law. All persons holding drugless...

An osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Osteopathic Initiative Act may utilize the services of an aide to assist the osteopathic physician and surgeon in the...

(a) For the purposes of Section 2459.5 and this section: (1) Osteopathic physician and surgeon means a person defined in the Osteopathic Initiative Act. (2) Osteopathic...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no osteopathic physician and surgeon shall utilize an osteopathic aide to perform services other than those specified in Sections 2459.5 and 2459.6....

There is created within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California and its divisions the California Board of Podiatric Medicine. This section shall become inoperative on July 1,...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California Board of Podiatric Medicine in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever...

As used in this article: (a) Division means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. (b) Board means the California Board of Podiatric Medicine. (c)...

The board shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be public members. Not more than one member of the board shall be a full-time faculty member of a college or school...

Each member of the board, except the public members, shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of this state for at least five...

The public members shall be appointed from persons having all of the following qualifications: (a) Be a citizen of this state for at least five years next preceding his or her appointment. ...

No person who directly or indirectly owns any interest in any college, school, or other institution engaged in podiatric medical instruction shall be appointed to the board or shall...

All members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years. Vacancies shall immediately be filled by the appointing power for the unexpired portion of the terms in which they occur....

(a) The board may convene from time to time as it deems necessary. (b) Four members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting. (c) It shall require...

Notice of each meeting of the board shall be given in accordance with the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...

Each member of the board shall receive per diem and expenses as provided in Section 2016....

The board may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, regulations necessary to enable the board to carry into effect the provisions...

(a) The certificate to practice podiatric medicine authorizes the holder to practice podiatric medicine. (b) As used in this chapter, podiatric medicine means the diagnosis,...

Any person who uses in any sign or in any advertisement or otherwise, the word or words doctor of podiatric medicine, doctor of podiatry, podiatric doctor, D.P.M.,...

Unless otherwise provided by law, no postgraduate trainee, intern, resident postdoctoral fellow, or instructor may engage in the practice of podiatric medicine, or receive compensation...

As used in this article, podiatric residency means a program of supervised postgraduate clinical training, one year or more in duration, approved by the board....

(a) The board shall approve podiatric residency programs, as defined in Section 2475.2, in the field of podiatric medicine, for persons who are applicants for or have been issued a...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a regularly matriculated student undertaking a course of professional instruction in an approved college or school of podiatric medicine from...

Nothing in this chapter prohibits the manufacture, the recommendation, or the sale of either corrective shoes or appliances for the human feet....

The division shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to each applicant who meets the requirements of this chapter. Every applicant...

The board shall have full authority to investigate and to evaluate each applicant applying for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine and to make a determination of the admission...

Each applicant who commenced professional instruction in podiatric medicine after September 1, 1959, shall show by an official transcript or other official evidence submitted directly to...

(a) Each applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall show by an official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the board that is submitted directly...

In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, before a certificate to practice podiatric medicine may be issued, each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that...

The division shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine if the applicant meets all of the following requirements: (a) The applicant...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the division shall issue, upon the recommendation of the board, a certificate to practice podiatric medicine by credentialing if the applicant...

(a) The board shall examine every applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine at the time and place designated by the board in its discretion, but at least twice a year. ...

(a) Applicants for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine shall pass an examination in the following subjects: (1) Anatomy and histology. (2) Dermatology. (3) Orthopedics...

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board may delegate to officials of the board the authority to approve the admission of applicants to the examination and to...

In order to ensure the continuing competence of persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine, the board shall adopt and administer regulations in accordance with the...

(a) The board may order the denial of an application for, or the suspension of, or the revocation of, or the imposition of probationary conditions upon, a certificate to practice...

(a) The board may request the administrative law judge, under his or her proposed decision in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before the board, to direct any licensee found...

(a) The board shall have the responsibility for reviewing the quality of podiatric medical practice carried out by persons licensed to practice podiatric medicine. (b) Each member of the...

There is in the State Treasury the Board of Podiatric Medicine Fund. Notwithstanding Section 2445, the division shall report to the Controller at the beginning of each calendar month...

The following fees apply to certificates to practice podiatric medicine. The amount of fees prescribed for doctors of podiatric medicine shall be those set forth in this section unless...

The fees in this article shall be fixed by the board in accordance with Section 313.1....

Any licensee who demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he or she is unable to practice podiatry due to a disability may request a waiver of the license renewal fee. The granting of...

The boards acknowledge the significant interest of physicians and patients alike in integrating preventative approaches and holistic-based alternatives into the practice of...

In fulfilling their responsibilities under this article, the boards shall , on or before July 1, 2002, establish disciplinary policies and procedures to reflect emerging and...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993....

As used in this article the following definitions shall apply: (a) Board means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. (b) Licensed midwife means an individual...

(a) The license to practice midwifery authorizes the holder, under the supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon, to attend cases of normal childbirth and to provide prenatal,...

(a) A licensed midwife shall disclose in oral and written form to a prospective client all of the following: (1) All of the provisions of Section 2507. (2) If the licensed midwife does...

(a) No person, other than one who has been licensed to practice midwifery by the board, shall hold himself or herself out as a licensed midwife, or use any other term indicating or implying that...

The board shall issue a license to practice midwifery to all applicants who meet the requirements of this article and who pay the fee required by Section 2520....

A person is qualified for a license to practice midwifery when he or she satisfies one of the following requirements: (a) (1) Successful completion of a three-year...

(a) An approved midwifery education program shall offer the opportunity for students to obtain credit by examination for previous midwifery education and clinical experience. The...

(a) Within 60 days following January 1, 1998, the board shall adopt regulations setting forth educational requirements. To develop these regulations, the board shall update...

The board shall approve specific educational programs intended to meet the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 2512.5 and Section 2514 for the course of academic study, documentation...

Each applicant shall show by evidence satisfactory to the board that he or she has met the educational standards established by the board pursuant to this article or the equivalent thereof....

A person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of Section 2052, prior to the effective date of this article, shall not be barred from licensure under this article solely because...

(a) Licenses issued pursuant to this article shall be renewable every two years upon payment of the fee prescribed by Section 2520 and submission of documentation that the licenseholder has...

The board may suspend or revoke the license of a midwife for any of the following: (a) Unprofessional conduct, which includes, but is not limited to, all of the following: (1)...

(a) (1) The fee to be paid upon the filing of a license application shall be fixed by the board at not less than seventy-five dollars ($75) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300). (2)...

Any person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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