Applicants for Licensure as Clinical Perfusionists by Examination

PURPOSE: This rule provides specific instructions to applicants regarding examination procedures. (1) The Missouri Advisory Commission for Clinical Perfusionists and the Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts recognizes the examination given by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion as Missouri’s licensing examination. (2) The board shall not issue a license as a clinical perfusionist to any applicant who has failed to achieve a passing score cumulatively three (3) times or more on the Basic Science Portion or the Clinical Application Portion of the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (ABCP) examination or any licensing examination. The board may waive the provisions of this section if the applicant provides proof of achieving the following after failing the licensing examination three (3) times: (A) Proof of American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion certification; and (B) Documentation of a minimum of fifteen (15) American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion approved continuing professional education units each calendar year. Five (5) of the fifteen (15) continuing professional education units must be ABCP Category 1; and (C) Documentation of performing forty (40) cases each calendar year as primary perfusionist for cardiopulmonary bypass, ECMO, VAD, Isolated Limb Perfusion or VENO-VENO bypass; and (D) Proof that no license issued to the applicant has been disciplined in any state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia. AUTHORITY: sections 324.133, 324.136 and 324.139, RSMo Supp. 1997.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 150-8.020. Original rule filed Dec. 2, 1998, effective June 30, 1999. Moved to 20 CSR 2150-8.020, effective Aug. 28, 2006. *Original authority: 324.133, RSMo 1997; 324.126, RSMo 1997; and 324.139, RSMo 1997.