052-5 Wyo. Code R. § 5-8 - [Effective 4/4/2024] Consideration of applications
(a) The
applicant for physician assistant licensure may be required to appear for a
licensure interview before the advisory council. An applicant may be required
to appear if one or more of the following applies:
(i) Is seventy (70) years old or
older;
(ii) Has been licensed as a
physician assistant for more than thirty-five (35) years;
(iii) Has answered "Yes" to one or more
questions on the application form regarding physical or mental impairment,
substance or alcohol abuse, criminal convictions, liability claims, prior
disciplinary actions, restrictions or conditions on medical licensure,
including relinquishment or surrender of a physician assistant license, or
restriction, suspension, or resignation while under investigation, of hospital
privileges;
(iv) Information
acquired or received by the board indicates the applicant may not possess
sufficient medical training, skill or experience appropriate for the
applicant's intended practice in this state;
(v) The applicant's education and/or training
verification documents indicate an unexplained delay in completion of his
education or training;
(vi) The
applicant's verification documents indicate more than one attempt at passage of
any examination necessary to obtain initial licensure or to maintain ongoing
licensure;
(vii) The applicant's
verification documents indicate failure to pass the NCCPA recertification
examination;
(viii) One or more
advisory council member(s) determine that there are issues raised by the
application and/or any supporting or verification documents that should be
addressed in an interview with advisory council members;
(ix) Whose temporary license was deferred by
the application review committee;
(x) The applicant has not previously engaged
in active practice as a physician assistant for a period of at least twelve
(12) continuous months;
(xi) The
applicant has been convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to a charge
of driving while under the influence of an intoxicant within five (5) years of
the date of his/her application;
(xii) The applicant has not been engaged in
active practice as a physician assistant in the immediately-preceding two (2)
year period;
(xiii) Failure to
fully and completely answer one or more questions on the application form or
failing to answer one or more questions truthfully; or,
(xiv) The applicant's post graduate work
and/or employment history indicate an unexplained gap.
(b) The supervising physician or supervising
physician assistant shall complete and submit a supervision agreement form
describing his willingness to undertake full responsibility for the physician
assistant's professional actions and such other actions as may affect patients,
and setting forth the conditions of his supervision of the physician
assistant;
(c) Physicians or
physician assistants who have conditions or restrictions upon their license or
privileges issued by the board or other state medical licensing board or health
care facility may apply to supervise a physician assistant. All applications
submitted by physicians or physician assistants with restrictions or conditions
on their license or clinical privileges shall be reviewed by the board and the
application to supervise a physician assistant may be denied on the grounds
that the supervising physician or supervising physician assistant has
restrictions or conditions on their license. The board may, in its discretion,
require an interview with an applicant, or the applying supervising physician
or supervising physician assistant, under this subsection.
(d) If a physician assistant requires
supervision pursuant to subsection
7(c) of this chapter, the
advisory council may require a supervising physician or supervising physician
assistant to interview in person before the advisory council to determine the
supervising physician's or supervising physician assistant's ability to
properly supervise the physician assistant and his willingness to accept the
responsibility of supervision of a physician assistant.
(e) If a physician assistant who requires
supervision pursuant to subsection
7(c) of this chapter
changes supervising physician or supervising physician assistant, but remains
in the same practice situation and location, the physician assistant shall
submit an application on a form approved by the board explaining the change.
The supervising physician or supervising physician assistant shall also
complete and submit an application describing his willingness to undertake full
responsibility for the physician assistant's professional actions and such
other actions as may affect patients. Under these circumstances, an interview
may be required if deemed appropriate by the advisory council or the board. If
initial licensure fees have been paid, no further fees will be
assessed.
(f) If a physician
assistant who requires supervision pursuant to subsection
7(c) of this chapter
changes job situations or locations within the state under a new supervising
physician or supervising physician assistant, the physician assistant shall
submit an application on a form approved by the board explaining the change,
and pay a supervisor change fee. The supervising physician or supervising
physician assistant shall also complete and submit a supervising agreement form
describing his willingness to undertake full responsibility for the physician
assistant's professional actions and such other actions as may affect patients.
A subsequent interview may be required by the advisory council or the
board.
(g) If a physician assistant
who requires supervision pursuant to subsection
7(c) of this chapter leaves
the state for employment and returns, a new supervising physician or
supervising physician assistant application and fees must be submitted to the
advisory council and board for approval. An interview may be
required.
(h) Following review of
the application documents and, where appropriate an interview, the advisory
council shall make its recommendations to the board regarding licensure of a
physician assistant to practice in Wyoming. The final decision remains with the
board.
(i) If a licensed physician
requires the emergency assistance of a physician assistant who requires
supervision pursuant to subsection
7(c) of this chapter, the
supervising physician or supervising physician, and the physician assistant to
be supervised shall, within two (2) business days of the emergent situation,
submit to the board on form prescribed by the board a statement detailing the
circumstance of the emergency and the need for the assistance of the physician
assistant without the board's prior approval. If it is determined that the
situation was not an emergency or if it was not appropriate to involve the
physician assistant, both the supervising physician or supervising physician
assistant and the physician assistant may be subject to disciplinary
action.
(j) Applications submitted
to the board for initial licensure as a physician assistant expire six (6)
calendar months after the date the application document is received in the
board office.
(k) Licensure
interviews shall be conducted in person (unless otherwise specifically
permitted by these rules) and shall consist of oral questions by the physician
assistant advisory council and oral responses by the applicant. By his or her
responses to questions posed in the licensure interview, the applicant must
demonstrate to the satisfaction of a majority of the board that he or she is
qualified to practice as a physician assistant in this state, that (1) he or
she possesses a minimum fund of general and identified scope of practice
medical knowledge appropriate for the applicant's intended practice in this
state, (2) he or she possesses sufficient medical training and medical
experience appropriate for the applicant's intended practice in this state, (3)
he or she possesses personal and professional character and integrity befitting
practice as a physician assistant, and (4) that there are no other factors
contained in the application or disclosed in the licensure interview that would
demonstrate that the applicant would be unable to practice as a physician
assistant in a safe and competent manner.
(l) Licensure interviews may be conducted by
video conference or other electronic means in the sole discretion of the
advisory council.
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