California Business and Professions Code 2488 – The board shall issue a certificate to practice podiatric medicine by …
The board shall issue a certificate to practice podiatric medicine by credentialing if the applicant has submitted directly to the board from the credentialing organizations verification that he or she is licensed as a doctor of podiatric medicine in any other state and meets all of the following requirements:
(a) The applicant has graduated from an approved school or college of podiatric medicine.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 2488
- Board: means the Podiatric Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2461
- certificate: as used in this chapter are deemed to be synonomous. See California Business and Professions Code 2040
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Podiatric licensing authority: refers to any officer, board, commission, committee, or department of another state that may issue a license to practice podiatric medicine. See California Business and Professions Code 2461
- podiatric medicine: means the diagnosis, medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative, and electrical treatment of the human foot, including the ankle and tendons that insert into the foot and the nonsurgical treatment of the muscles and tendons of the leg governing the functions of the foot. See California Business and Professions Code 2472
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
(b) The applicant, within the past 10 years, has passed either part III of the examination administered by the National Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners of the United States or a written examination that is recognized by the board to be the equivalent in content to the examination administered by the National Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners of the United States.
(c) The applicant has satisfactorily completed a postgraduate training program approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education.
(d) The applicant, within the past 10 years, has passed any oral and practical examination that may be required of all applicants by the board to ascertain clinical competence.
(e) The applicant has committed no acts or crimes constituting grounds for denial of a certificate under Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 475).
(f) The board determines that no disciplinary action has been taken against the applicant by any podiatric licensing authority and that the applicant has not been the subject of adverse judgments or settlements resulting from the practice of podiatric medicine that the board determines constitutes evidence of a pattern of negligence or incompetence.
(g) A disciplinary databank report regarding the applicant is received by the board from the Federation of Podiatric Medical Boards.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 775, Sec. 92. (SB 798) Effective January 1, 2018.)