Temporary Licenses to Teach or Lecture in Certain Programs

PURPOSE: Section 334.046, RSMo authorizes the Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to grant temporary licenses to certain physicians to teach or lecture in certain pro grams. This rule contains the requirements for temporary licenses, defines certain terms used in those requirements, establishes a procedure for applying for temporary licenses and provides for the automatic expiration of temporary licenses. (1) This rule shall be known as The Visiting Professor Rule. (2) As used in this rule, unless specifically provided otherwise, the term— (A) Accredited medical school shall mean any medical col lege approved and accredited as reputable by the American Medical Association (AMA) or the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and any osteopathic college approved and accredited as reputable by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA); (B) Accredited hospital shall mean a hospital located in Missouri and licensed by the Missouri Department of Health— Bureau of Health Facility Regulations; (C) Otherwise qualified physician shall mean an individual who meets all requirements for permanent licensure as a phy sician and surgeon in Missouri pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 334, RSMo and corresponding rules of the board; and (D) Program shall mean a course of classroom instruction in medical or osteopathic education; a post graduate training course, including, but not limited to, an internship, residency or fellowship; a continuing medical education course which involves participatory, hands-on interaction between an in structor or a physician enrolled in the course and a patient; and a continuing medical education course which involves actual AND INSURANCE live demonstrations of any aspect or technique of the healing arts by an instructor. (E) Visiting professor license shall mean any temporary li cense granted pursuant to the requirements of this rule, and shall include fourteen (14)-day visiting professor licenses. (F) Fourteen (14)-day visiting professor license shall mean a visiting professor license granted pursuant to this rule which— 1. Allows the holder of the license to teach or lecture on no more than fourteen (14) days, cumulatively, in any twelve (12)-month period, regardless of whether the twelve (12)-month period coincides with the twelve (12)-month duration of the li cense; and 2. Requires the holder of the license to notify the board, at least ten (10) days prior to beginning any period of teaching or lecturing in Missouri, of the duration and the beginning and end dates of the particular period of teaching or lecturing for which the holder is giving notice. (3) The board may grant a visiting professor license to an oth erwise qualified physician to teach or lecture in a program sponsored by an accredited medical school or an accredited teaching hospital. (4) The board, in its sole discretion, pursuant to this rule may issue a visiting professor license to an applicant who has not met all of the requirements for permanent licensure as a physician and surgeon in Missouri, if the applicant is licensed as a physician and surgeon in another state or international country. (5) A visiting professor license shall automatically expire twelve (12) months from the date of its issuance. A visiting professor license issued pursuant to this rule may be renewed so long as the applicant has continuously taught or lectured at the same accredited medical school or accredited teaching hospital where the applicant was to teach or lecture when the license was first issued, except that fourteen (14)-day visiting professor licenses issued pursuant to this rule may not be renewed. A visiting professor license issued pursuant to this rule shall not be renewed if it was inactive for any reason during the imme diately preceding year. (6) Applicants seeking a visiting professor license under this rule shall utilize the following procedure: (A) The applicant is required to make application, under oath, upon either the fourteen (14)-day visiting professor li cense application form prepared by the board or the regular visiting professor license application form (see 20 CSR 21502.060) prepared by the board, depending upon the type of license desired by the applicant; (B) The board will not consider an application until the appli cation is fully completed and accompanied by all documents requested in the application; and (C) The individual in charge of the program sponsored by the accredited medical school or the accredited teaching hospital where the applicant will teach or lecture shall send the com pleted application to the executive secretary of the board at the following address: State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, PO Box 4, Jefferson City, MO 65102. AUTHORITY: sections 334.046 and 334.125, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-2.065. Original rule filed Jan. 19, 1988, effective April 15, 1988. Amended: Filed Jan. 3, 1991, effective June 10, 1991. Emergency amendment filed July 17, 1992, effective Aug. 1, 1992, expired Nov. 28, 1992. Emergency amendment filed Nov. 16, 1992, effective Nov. 29, 1992, expired March 28, 1993. Amended: Filed July 17, 1992, effective April 8, 1993. Amended: Filed Jan. 5, 1993, effective Aug. 9, 1993. Amended: Filed Oct. 4, 1993, effective April 9, 1994. Amended: Filed July 25, 2000, effective Dec. 30, 2000. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-2.065, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Dec. 14, 2007, effective June 30, 2008. *Original authority: 334.046, RSMo 1986, amended 1989, 1996, 1997; and 334.125, RSMo 1959, amended 1993, 1995.