N.Y. Education Law § 6541: Requirements for license

§ 6541. Requirements for license. 1. To qualify for a license as a

physician assistant, each person shall pay a fee of one hundred fifteen

dollars to the department for admission to a department conducted

examination, a fee of forty-five dollars for each reexamination and a

fee of seventy dollars for persons not requiring admission to a

department conducted examination and shall also submit satisfactory

evidence, verified by oath or affirmation, that he or she:

(a) at the time of application is at least twenty-one years of age;

(b) is of good moral character;

(c) has received an education including a bachelor's or equivalent

degree in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;

(d) has satisfactorily completed an approved program for the training

of physician assistants. The approved program for the training of

physician assistants shall include not less than forty weeks of

supervised clinical training and thirty-two credit hours of classroom

work. Applicants for a license as a physician assistant who have

completed an approved program leading to a bachelor's degree or

equivalent in physician assistant studies shall be deemed to have

satisfied this paragraph. The commissioner is empowered to determine

whether an applicant possesses equivalent education and training, such

as experience as a nurse or military corpsman, which may be accepted in

lieu of all or part of an approved program; and

(e) in the case of an applicant for a license as a physician

assistant, has obtained a passing score on an examination acceptable to

the department.

2. The department shall furnish to each person applying for a license

pursuant to this section an application form calling for such

information as the department deems necessary and shall issue to each

applicant who satisfies the requirements of subdivision one of this

section a license as a physician assistant in a particular medical

specialty for the period expiring December thirty-first of the first

odd-numbered year terminating subsequent to the issuance of such

license.

3. Every licensee shall apply to the department for a renewal of his

or her license. The department shall mail to every licensed physician

assistant an application form for renewal, addressed to the licensee's

post office address on file with the department. Upon receipt of such

application properly executed, together with evidence of satisfactory

completion of such continuing education requirements as may be

established by the commissioner of health pursuant to section

thirty-seven hundred one of the public health law, the department shall

issue a renewal. Renewal periods shall be triennial and the renewal fee

shall be forty-five dollars.