RELATES TO:
KRS 311B.050,
311B.100(2),
311B.120,
311B.180,
311B.190
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS 311B.050
requires the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to promulgate
administrative regulations to administer and enforce KRS Chapter 311B and to
regulate the licensure of medical imaging technologists, advanced imaging
professionals, and radiation therapists other than a licensed practitioner of
the healing arts.
KRS
311B.100(2) requires the
board to establish licensure qualifications. This administrative regulation
establishes procedures for the provisional licensure of nuclear medicine
technologists and radiation therapists who are seeking post-primary
certification in computed tomography (CT) and radiographers or radiation
therapists who are seeking post-primary certification in positron emission
tomography (PET) to gain clinical competency.
Section 1. Eligibility for Provisional CT
Training License. An individual who is licensed in a primary discipline of
nuclear medicine or radiation therapy, certified by the American Registry of
Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) or the Nuclear Medicine Technology
Certification Board (NMTCB), and who is seeking post-primary computed
tomography certification may work under the direct supervision of a licensed
and certified CT technologist to gain clinical competency. An individual who
wishes to complete clinical training in computed tomography shall submit a
Provisional License Application. A provisional license shall expire twenty-four
(24) months from the date of issuance.
Section
2. Eligibility for Provisional PET Training License. An individual
who is licensed in a primary discipline of radiography or radiation therapy,
certified by the ARRT, and who is seeking post-primary PET certification may
work under the direct supervision of a licensed and certified PET technologist
with the permission of an authorized user to gain clinical competency. An
individual who wishes to complete clinical training in PET shall submit a
Provisional License Application. A provisional license shall expire twenty-four
(24) months from the date of issuance.
Section
3. Application for Provisional Training License. A licensee shall
submit a:
(1) Completed and signed KBMIRT Form
7 Provisional License Application; and
(2) Nonrefundable provisional training
license fee as mandated in
201 KAR 46:020, Section
4.
Section 4. Upon
completion of post-primary ARRT or NMTCB computed tomography or NMTCB (PET)
certification, a provisional licensee shall submit documentation of registry or
certification and shall receive an updated license.
Section 5. If a provisional training licensee
has not submitted documentation of appropriate registry or certification prior
to expiration of the provisional license, the licensee shall reapply for a new
provisional license pursuant to the process established in this administrative
regulation and pay the nonrefundable provisional training license fee mandated
in
201 KAR 46:020, Section 4. A
provisional license may be renewed once.
Section
6. Incorporation by Reference.
(1) "Provisional License Application", KBMIRT
Form 7, March 2020, is incorporated by reference.
(2) This material may be inspected, copied or
obtained, subject to applicable copyright law, at the Board of Medical Imaging
and Radiation Therapy, 125 Holmes Street, Suite 320, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601,
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
