GENERAL GOVERNMENT CABINET

Board of Medical Licensure

(As Amended at ARRS, October 13, 2015)

 

      201 KAR 9:305. Continued licensure of

athletic trainers.

 

      RELATES

TO: KRS 214.610, 311.901(1), 311.905(2), 311.909(1)(o)

      STATUTORY

AUTHORITY: KRS 214.610(1), 311.901(1)

      NECESSITY,

FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 311.901(1) requires the Kentucky Board of Medical

Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensure

and regulation of athletic trainers and requires continuing education courses

on the transmission, control, treatment, and prevention of the human immunodeficiency

virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This administrative regulation

establishes the criteria for the continued licensure of athletic trainers.

 

      Section

1. Definition. "CEU" means the completion of ten (10) hours of

educational courses approved by the:

      (1)

Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure; or

      (2)

Board of Certification, Inc.

 

      Section

2.(1)[(1)] An athletic trainer licensed to practice

in the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall complete six (6) CEUs during each three

(3) year renewal cycle beginning with the renewal cycle that ends on June 30,

2015.

      (2)(a)

Upon initial licensure or within the first three (3) year renewal cycle from

initial licensure, each licensee shall complete an educational course approved

by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on the transmission, control,

treatment, and prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV/AIDS.

      (b) The hours of the course required by paragraph

(a) of this subsection shall be counted as part of the six (6) CEUs required by

subsection (1) of this section for the three (3) year renewal cycle during

which the HIV/AIDS course was completed.[(2)(a) During each

ten (10) year period of practice, each licensee shall complete a minimum of two

(2) hours of continuing education in HIV/AIDS courses approved pursuant to KRS

214.610.

      (b)

The hours required by paragraph (a) of this subsection shall be counted as part

of the six (6) CEUs required by subsection (1) of this section for the three

(3) year renewal cycle during which the HIV/AIDS course was completed.]

 

PRESTON

P. NUNNELLEY, M.D., President

      APPROVED

BY AGENCY: July 13, 2015

      FILED

WITH LRC: July 14, 2015 at 10 a.m.

      CONTACT

PERSON: Leanne K. Diakov, General Counsel, Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure,

310 Whittington Parkway, Suite 1B, Louisville, Kentucky 40222, phone (502)

429-7150, fax (502) 429-7118.