Kan. Admin. Regs. § 100-15-4 - Continuing education standards; definitions
(a) Continuing
education" shall mean an activity designed to maintain, develop, or increase
the knowledge, skills, and professional performance of persons licensed to
practice a branch of the healing arts. Each continuing education activity shall
have significant intellectual or practical content, shall be relevant to the
branch of the healing arts for which the practitioner is licensed, and shall
meet at least one of the following content requirements:
(1) Have a direct bearing on patient
care;
(2) have a direct bearing on
the person's ability to deliver patient care; or
(3) relate to the teaching, ethical, legal,
or social responsibilities of a person licensed to practice the healing arts.
(b) "Category I"
continuing education shall mean a continuing education activity that meets the
requirements of subsection (a) and is presented by a person qualified by
practical or academic experience, using any of the following methods:
(1) Lecture, which shall mean a discourse
given before an audience for instruction;
(2) panel discussion, which shall mean the
presentation of a number of views by several professional individuals on a
given subject, with none of the views considered a final solution;
(3) workshop, which shall mean a series of
meetings designed for intensive study, work, or discussion in a specific field
of interest;
(4) seminar, which
shall mean a directed advanced study or discussion in a specific field of
interest;
(5) symposium, which
shall mean a conference of more than a single session organized for the purpose
of discussing a specific subject from various viewpoints and by various
speakers; or
(6) any other
structured, interactive, and formal learning method that the board deems to
meet the requirements of subsection (a).
(c) "Category II" continuing education shall
mean attendance at a lecture, panel discussion, workshop, seminar, symposium,
college course, professional publication, in-service training, or professional
activity that the board determines does not meet the requirements of category
I, but that is in a health-related field indirectly related to healing arts
skill and knowledge. Category II continuing education shall include the
following:
(1) Clinical consultations with
other healing arts practitioners that contribute to a practitioner's education;
(2) participation in activities to
review the quality of patient care;
(3) instructing healing arts and other health
care practitioners;
(4)
patient-centered discussions with other health care practitioners;
(5) participating in journal clubs;
(6) using searchable electronic databases in
connection with patient care activities; and (7) using self-instructional
materials.
(d) "Category
III" continuing education shall mean an internet or live continuing education
activity that also meets the requirements of either a category I or category II
continuing education activity and meets at least one of the following content
requirements:
(1) Acute or chronic pain
management;
(2) the appropriate
prescribing of opioids; or
(3) the
use of prescription drug monitoring programs.
(e) Credit for continuing education
activities shall be awarded on the basis of one credit for each 50 minutes
actually spent in attendance at a continuing education activity.
(f) Each instructor of a healing arts
continuing education activity shall be awarded category I continuing education
credit at the rate of one credit for each three hours of the instructor's
first-time preparation of the presentation of a category I continuing education
activity.
(g) For successful
completion of a postbaccalaureate program awarding a degree in an area related
to the healing arts, 25 credits of category I continuing education shall be
awarded. A copy of the transcript shall be maintained as proof of successful
completion of the program.
(h) For
successful completion of one year of postgraduate training, 50 credits of
category I continuing education credit shall be awarded.
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