HB361: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure.

Legislative Summary

Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean for clinical affairs of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and the dean of the University of Pikeville College of Osteopathic Medicine to appoint a designee to sit on the State Board of Medical Licensure; amends KRS 311.601 to allow future practicing pediatricians to apply course curriculum to the pediatric abusive head trauma continuing education requirements; amends KRS 311.842 to change how the physician assistants on the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee are selected, to establish that the chair must be a practicing physician assistant, and to limit members to two consecutive terms; amends KRS 311.844 to remove the HIV/AIDS continuing education requirement, and to allow graduating physician assistant students to apply course curriculum to the pediatric head trauma continuing education requirements; and amends KRS 311.854 to remove the application requirement to list the name, address, and area of practice of supervising physicians.