Oregon Statutes 677.515 – Practice of medicine by physician assistant; scope of practice
(1) A physician assistant may practice medicine by providing any medical service, including prescribing and administering controlled substances in Schedules II through V under the federal Controlled Substances Act:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 677.515
- Board: means the Oregon Medical Board. See Oregon Statutes 677.010
- 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.
- Physician: means a person who holds a degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, or a person who holds a degree of Doctor of Podiatric Medicine if the context in which the term 'physician' is used does not authorize or require the person to practice outside the scope of a license issued under ORS § 677. See Oregon Statutes 677.010
(a) That is within the scope of practice of the physician assistant; and
(b) For which the physician assistant has obtained informed consent as provided in ORS § 677.097, if informed consent is required.
(2) This chapter does not prohibit a student enrolled in a program for educating physician assistants approved by the Oregon Medical Board from rendering medical services if the services are rendered in the course of the program.
(3) The degree of autonomous judgment that a physician assistant may exercise shall be determined at the physician assistant’s primary location of practice by the community standards of care and the physician assistant’s education, training and experience.
(4) A physician assistant’s scope of practice is based on the physician assistant’s education, training and experience.
(5) The board may not limit the privilege of administering, dispensing and prescribing prescription drugs to population groups federally designated as underserved, or to geographic areas of the state that are federally designated health professional shortage areas, federally designated medically underserved areas or areas designated as medically disadvantaged and in need of primary health care providers by the Director of the Oregon Health Authority or the Office of Rural Health. All prescriptions written pursuant to this subsection must bear the name, office address and telephone number of the physician assistant who writes the prescription.
(6) This chapter does not require or prohibit a physician assistant from practicing in a hospital licensed pursuant to ORS § 441.015 to 441.119 and 441.993.
(7) Prescriptions for medications prescribed by a physician assistant in accordance with this section and ORS § 475.005, 677.010, 677.500, 677.511 and 677.535 and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist may be filled by the pharmacist according to the terms of the prescription, and the filling of such a prescription does not constitute evidence of negligence on the part of the pharmacist if the prescription was dispensed within the reasonable and prudent practice of pharmacy. [Formerly 677.065; 1985 c.747 § 52; 1989 c.830 § 32; 1993 c.571 § 27; 1999 c.119 § 3; 1999 c.582 § 5; 2001 c.744 1,2; 2005 c.366 § 3; 2009 c.595 § 1055; 2010 c.43 § 4; 2011 c.550 § 5; 2012 c.34 § 4; 2015 c.403 § 4; 2018 c.50 § 17; 2021 c.349 2,12; 2023 c.314 § 6]