Bill Text: FL S0878 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medical Faculty Certification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-24 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 173 (Ch. 2016-54) [S0878 Detail]

Download: Florida-2016-S0878-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 878
       
       
        
       By Senator Sachs
       
       
       
       
       
       34-00586A-16                                           2016878__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to medical faculty certification;
    3         amending s. 458.3145, F.S.; revising the list of
    4         schools at which certain faculty members are eligible
    5         to receive a medical faculty certificate; providing an
    6         effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subsection (1) and subsection
   11  (4) of section 458.3145, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   12         458.3145 Medical faculty certificate.—
   13         (1) A medical faculty certificate may be issued without
   14  examination to an individual who:
   15         (a) Is a graduate of an accredited medical school or its
   16  equivalent, or is a graduate of a foreign medical school listed
   17  with the World Health Organization;
   18         (b) Holds a valid, current license to practice medicine in
   19  another jurisdiction;
   20         (c) Has completed the application form and remitted a
   21  nonrefundable application fee not to exceed $500;
   22         (d) Has completed an approved residency or fellowship of at
   23  least 1 year or has received training which has been determined
   24  by the board to be equivalent to the 1-year residency
   25  requirement;
   26         (e) Is at least 21 years of age;
   27         (f) Is of good moral character;
   28         (g) Has not committed any act in this or any other
   29  jurisdiction which would constitute the basis for disciplining a
   30  physician under s. 458.331;
   31         (h) For any applicant who has graduated from medical school
   32  after October 1, 1992, has completed, before entering medical
   33  school, the equivalent of 2 academic years of preprofessional,
   34  postsecondary education, as determined by rule of the board,
   35  which must include, at a minimum, courses in such fields as
   36  anatomy, biology, and chemistry; and
   37         (i) Has been offered and has accepted a full-time faculty
   38  appointment to teach in a program of medicine at:
   39         1. The University of Florida;,
   40         2. The University of Miami;,
   41         3. The University of South Florida;,
   42         4. The Florida State University;,
   43         5. The Florida International University;,
   44         6. The University of Central Florida;, or
   45         7. The Mayo Medical School at the Mayo Clinic College of
   46  Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida; or
   47         8. The Florida Atlantic University.
   48         (4) In any year, the maximum number of extended medical
   49  faculty certificateholders as provided in subsection (2) may not
   50  exceed 30 persons at each institution named in subparagraphs
   51  (1)(i)1.-6. and 8. and at the facility named in s. 1004.43 and
   52  may not exceed 10 persons at the institution named in
   53  subparagraph (1)(i)7.
   54         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.