| Continuing Education

| Continuing Education. A. Every acupuncturist must earn or receive not less than thirty (30) hours of acupuncture related continuing education courses as precedent to renewing their license for the next fiscal year. This thirty (30) hours is per two-year cycle. Excess hours may not be carried over to another two-year cycle. For the purpose of this regulation, the two-year period begins July 1, 2010, and every two years thereafter. Continuing education courses must be sponsored and/or approved by one of the following organizations: 1. Mississippi Council of Advisors in Acupuncture 2. Mississippi Oriental Medicine Association 3. American Society of Acupuncturists 4. National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 5. American Acupuncture Council 6. The Acupuncture and TCM Board of Reproductive Medicine 7. Future NCCAOM approved CEU organizations B. All persons licensed as acupuncturists must comply with the following continuing education rules as a prerequisite to license renewal. 1. Acupuncturists receiving their initial license to perform acupuncture in Mississippi after June 30 are exempt from the minimum continuing education requirement for the two-year period following their receiving a license. The thirty (30) hour continuing education certification will be due within the next two-year cycle. 2. The approved hours of any individual course or activity will not be counted more than once in a two (2) year period toward the required hour total regardless of the number of times the course or activity is attended or completed by any individual. 3. The Board may waive or otherwise modify the requirements of this rule in cases where there is illness, military service, disability or other undue hardship that prevents a license holder from obtaining the requisite number of continuing education hours. Requests for waivers or modification must be sent in writing to the Executive Director prior to the expiration of the renewal period in which the continuing education is due. 4. Submission of current four-year cycle NCCAOM recertification may count as sufficient in fulfilling the two-year cycle CE requirements in Mississippi, at the discretion of the Executive Director of the board.