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1 BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY Chapter 35 Page 1 of 424 Last Revision Date: 12/06/2021 NEW JERSEY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE TITLE 13 LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY CHAPTER 35 BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY Chapter 35 Page 2 of 424 Last Revision Date: 12/06/2021 CHAPTER TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBCHAPTER 1. MEDICAL SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, EXTERNSHIPS AND CLERKSHIPS .. 13 13:35 Observership program .. 13 13:35 Fifth Pathway .. 14 13:35 (Reserved) .. 15 13:35 Military Service in lieu of or internship or postgraduate training.

2 15 13:35 Registration and permit requirements for graduate medical education programs in medicine or podiatry .. 15 SUBCHAPTER 1A. (RESERVED) .. 25 SUBCHAPTER 2. LIMITED LICENSES: PODIATRY, DIAGNOSTIC TESTING CENTERS AND MISCELLANEOUS .. 26 13:35 Approved colleges of podiatry .. 26 13:35 Podiatry internship or postgraduate work .. 26 13:35 Military Service in lieu of internship in podiatry .. 26 13:35 Podiatrist supervision and administration of hyperbaric oxygen therapy .. 26 13:35 (Reserved) .. 27 13:35 Medical standards governing screening and diagnostic medical testing offices; determinations with respect to the validity of certain diagnostic tests.

3 27 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 13:35 Limited privileges and conditions of practice permitted for a graduate physician pending licensure .. 43 13:35 (Reserved) .. 43 SUBCHAPTER 2A. LIMITED LICENSES: MIDWIFERY .. 43 13:35 Purpose and scope .. 43 13:35 Definitions .. 44 13:35 Midwifery Liaison Committee .. 45 13:35 Application for licensure .. 45 13:35 Independent practice .. 46 13:35 Consulting physicians; clinical guidelines.

4 47 BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY Chapter 35 Page 3 of 424 Last Revision Date: 12/06/2021 13:35 Licensure; biennial license renewal; license suspension; reinstatement of suspended license; inactive status; return from inactive status .. 48 13:35 Antepartum management .. 50 13:35 Management of antepartum women at increased risk .. 50 13:35 Intrapartum management .. 53 13:35 Management of intrapartum women at increased risk .. 54 Postpartum care .. 55 13:35 Well woman care .. 56 13:35 Prescriptive authorization .. 56 13:35 Limited ultrasound examination.

5 58 13:35 Colposcopies .. 59 13:35 Circumcisions .. 60 13:35 Telemedicine: purpose and scope .. 61 13:35 Telemedicine: definitions .. 61 13:35 Telemedicine: standard of care .. 62 13:35 Telemedicine: licensee patient relationship .. 63 13:35 Telemedicine: provision of services through telemedicine or telehealth .. 64 13:35 Telemedicine: prescriptions .. 65 13:35 Telemedicine: records .. 66 13:35 Telemedicine: prevention of fraud and abuse .. 66 13:35 Telemedicine: privacy and notice to patients .. 66 SUBCHAPTER 2B. LIMITED LICENSES: PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.

6 67 13:35 Purpose and scope .. 67 13:35 Definitions .. 68 13:35 Practice requirements .. 69 13:35 Scope of practice .. 70 13:35 Eligibility for licensure .. 71 13:35 Refusal to issue, suspension or revocation of license .. 72 13:35 License renewal, continuing education requirement .. 72 13:35 Credit hour requirements .. 72 13:35 Waiver of continuing education requirement .. 73 13:35 Supervision .. 73 13:35 Recordkeeping .. 75 13:35 Requirements for issuing prescriptions for medications; special requirements for issuance of CDS .. 76 13:35 (RESERVED).

7 78 13:35 LICENSE RENEWAL .. 78 13:35 Sexual misconduct .. 83 BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY Chapter 35 Page 4 of 424 Last Revision Date: 12/06/2021 13:35 Credit towards licensure for education, training, and experience received while serving as a member of the Armed Forces .. 85 SUBCHAPTER 2C. TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS .. 86 13:35 Purpose and scope .. 86 13:35 Definitions .. 87 13:35 Standard of care .. 88 13:35 Licensee patient relationship .. 89 13:35 Provision of healthcare services through telemedicine or telehealth.

8 90 13:35 Prescriptions .. 91 13:35 Records .. 92 13:35 Prevention of fraud and abuse .. 92 13:35 Privacy and notice to patients .. 92 SUBCHAPTER 3. LICENSING EXAMINATIONS AND ENDORSEMENTS, LIMITED EXEMPTIONS FROM LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS; POSTGRADUATE TRAINING .. 93 13:35 Licensing examination; physicians .. 93 13:35 Endorsement; physicians .. 94 13:35 Endorsement; podiatric physicians .. 95 13:35 (Reserved) .. 95 13:35 (Reserved) .. 95 13:35 Bioanalytical laboratory director license, plenary or specialty, granted to physicians .. 95 13:35 Limited exemption from licensure; physicians.

9 97 13:35 Administrative processing of license application .. 97 13:35 (Reserved) .. 98 13:35 Subversion or attempt to subvert the licensing examination process .. 98 13:35 Standards for licensure of physicians graduated from medical schools not approved by American national accrediting agencies .. 99 13:35 Standards for licensure of physicians graduated from medical schools approved by recognized national accrediting agencies .. 101 13:35 Standards for licensure of physicians with post secondary educational deficiencies .. 102 13:35 Criminal history record information.

10 103 13:35 Biennial license renewal; license suspension; reinstatement of suspended license; inactive status; return from inactive status .. 103 13:35 Postgraduate training .. 105 SUBCHAPTER 4. SURGERY .. 105 13:35 Major surgery; qualified first assistant .. 105 13:35 (Reserved) .. 106 BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY Chapter 35 Page 5 of 424 Last Revision Date: 12/06/2021 SUBCHAPTER 4A. SURGERY, SPECIAL PROCEDURES AND ANESTHESIA SERVICES PERFORMED IN AN OFFICE SETTING .. 106 13:35 Purpose .. 106 13:35 Scope .. 107 13:35 Definitions.