KRS 311.601: Adoption of administrative regulations -- Continuing education

requirements.

(1) The board may adopt reasonable rules and regulations to effectuate and implement

the provisions of KRS 311.550 to 311.620, including but not limited to regulat ions

designed to ensure the continuing professional competency of present and future

licensees. As an adjunct to the power conferred upon the board by this section, the

board may require licensees to submit to interrogation as to the nature and extent of

their postgraduate medical education and to require licensees found to be deficient

in their efforts to keep abreast of new methods and technology, to obtain additional

instruction and training therein.

(2) As part of the continuing medical education which the board adopts to ensure

continuing professional competency of present and future licensees, the board shall

ensure that:

(a) Current practicing pediatricians, including those certified in medicine and

pediatrics, radiologists, family practitioners, and those physicians practicing

in an emergency medicine or urgent care setting, demonstrate completion of a

one (1) time course of at least one (1) hour of continuing medical education

approved by the board and covering the recognition and prevention of

pediatric abusive head trauma, as defined in KRS 620.020, prior to December

31, 2017; and

(b) Future practicing pediatricians, including those certified in medicine and

pediatrics, radiologists, family practitioners, and those physicians who will

practice in an emergency medicine or urgent care setting, demonstrate

completion of a one (1) time course of at least one (1) hour of continuing

medical education, or its equivalent, approved by the board and covering the

recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma, as defined in

KRS 620.020, within five (5) years of licensure. Future practicing

pediatricians, including those certified in medicine and pediatrics,

radiologists, family practitioners, and those physicians who will practice in an

emergency medicine or urgent care setting may apply pediatric abusive head

trauma curriculum taught in their medical school education to count towards

the required one (1) hour of continuing medical education.