22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care related activities all states license emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day movement of EMS personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal recognition to EMS personnel licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety...
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34-24-404
Section 34-24-404 Confidentiality of information, records, and proceedings. All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other documents furnished to or produced by the Alabama Physician Wellness Committee and any findings, conclusions, recommendations, or reports resulting from the investigations, interventions, treatment, or rehabilitation, or other proceedings of such committee are declared to be privileged and confidential. All records and proceedings of such committee shall be confidential and shall be used by such committee and the members thereof only in the exercise of the proper function of the committee and shall not be public records nor available for court subpoena or for discovery proceedings. Nothing contained herein shall apply to records made in the regular course of business of a physician, osteopath, hospital, or other health care provider, and information, documents, or records otherwise available from original sources are not to be construed as...
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22-18-40
Section 22-18-40 State Emergency Medical Control Committee. (a) The board shall be assisted in formulating rules and policy pertaining to emergency medical services by the State Emergency Medical Control Committee (SEMCC). Each member of the SEMCC shall have voting privileges. Members of the SEMCC shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred in the performance of the duties of their office at the same rate paid state employees. The chair of SEMCC may establish subcommittees of SEMCC comprised of representatives from ambulance, fire, rescue, and other EMS groups, as needed. (b) The SEMCC shall be composed as follows: (1) The medical directors of each EMS region designated by the board as ex officio members. (2) One member who shall be a physician appointed by the Alabama Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. (3) One member who shall be a physician appointed by the State Committee on Trauma of the American College of...
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25-5-311
Section 25-5-311 Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board; creation, members, functions. There is established a Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board composed of five physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Labor. The initial board shall be selected from a list of 15 physicians who are members of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, submitted by the association. Members of the board shall serve terms of five years. In order that the appointments be staggered, one member shall serve an initial term of six years, one member shall serve an initial term of two years, one member shall serve an initial term of three years, one member shall serve an initial term of four years, and the remaining member shall serve an initial term of five years. Thereafter, successors shall be appointed by the secretary from among a list of three nominees submitted by the Medical Association of the State...
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20-2-251
Section 20-2-251 Certifying board; advisory committee; access to records; protocols, formularies, medical regimens. (a) The Board of Medical Examiners is hereby designated as the certifying board for the registration and approval of a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP) or a certified nurse midwife (CNM) in obtaining or renewing a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC). The board may adopt regulations concerning the application procedures, fees, and grounds for the restriction, limitation, suspension, or revocation of a QACSC, excluding the charge of expenses for conducting an investigation or expenses of a hearing, and to provide for hearings in connection with the same. The board shall establish a unique QACSC number that identifies the particular applicant as a certified registered nurse practitioner or certified nurse midwife with a valid QACSC. However, nothing in this article shall permit the board to encroach on the powers, duties,...
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32-6-42
Section 32-6-42 Responsibilities. The board shall have the following responsibilities: (1) advise the director on medical criteria relating to the safe operation of motor vehicles; (2) recommend to the director procedures and guidelines for licensing individuals with physical or mental impairment; (3) initiate the development of medically acceptable report forms; (4) direct research of medically impaired individuals; (5) recommend a training course for driver examiners in the medical aspects of licensure; (6) spearhead efforts to orient the general physician population as well as the public in the medical aspects of driver licensure; (7) assist in the development of regional driver license medical advisory boards to be constituted similarly to the board established by this division; and (8) evaluate individual problem cases that require more than one opinion or that cannot be screened out in light of guidelines established by the board. The board may formulate such advice from records...
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34-24-384
Section 34-24-384 Rules and regulations; reimbursement by physician. The Board of Medical Examiners and the Medical Licensure Commission are each authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this division. The Board of Medical Examiners is specifically authorized to establish criteria for determining any amounts to be expended on behalf of an impaired physician for education, rehabilitation, and treatment and may require that any physician on whose behalf such funds are expended repay or reimburse the Alabama Physicians Education Fund in accordance with rules established by the board. Reimbursement shall be required on any funds expended for the treatment of alcohol and/or drug related problems in accordance with a schedule agreeable to the board or commission. (Acts 1986, No. 86-451, p. 817, ยง5.)...
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16-47-222
Section 16-47-222 Applications and awards; repayment of loans. (a) The board shall establish and award, according to the judgment of the board, loans to provide for the training of qualified applicants for admission or students in any accredited master's degree program for physician assistant studies at a medical school or college. The board may permit eligible people to apply for a loan under the Alabama Physician's Assistants Service Program in any scholastic year and for any previously completed scholastic year. The board's awarding of loans shall be done after consultation with the physician's assistant advisory committee of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners. (b) The board may award to an eligible person a loan or loans totaling in value as much as the average in-state tuition and required fees charged at public institutions in Alabama for completing on time a master's degree program for physician assistant studies. But a loan or loans may be awarded only to people who have...
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34-18-41
Section 34-18-41 Appointment. The Alabama Association of Medical Technicians, through its executive committee, shall submit to the Governor a list containing the names of two regular physicians who are properly qualified as to training, licensure, and ethical standing, two physician-pathologists who are listed by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and six medical technicians who, in addition to two years' college instruction, shall have completed a full internship in a school of training listed and approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, or approved by the Alabama State Board of Censors, or who, prior to the time of appointment, had served an apprenticeship instruction of at least one year under a qualified physician-pathologist, and who shall have been engaged in medical technology for not less than five years after completion of training; and the Governor shall appoint the members...
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34-21-85
Section 34-21-85 Joint committee designated to recommend rules and regulations; requirements to engage in advanced practice nursing. The joint committee shall be the state authority designated to recommend rules and regulations to the State Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Nursing for the purpose of regulating the collaborative practice of physicians and certified registered nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives. No person may practice as a certified registered nurse practitioner or a certified nurse midwife in this state unless that person possesses a certificate of qualification issued by the Board of Nursing and practices under written protocols approved by the State Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Nursing and signed by a qualified collaborating physician or physicians and certified registered nurse practitioner or certified nurse midwife or is exempt from the requirement of a written protocol according to rules promulgated by the State Board of...
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