Title 32 — Professions and Occupations

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Active license" means a valid and existing license to practice medicine. 2. "Adequate records" means legible medical records, produced by hand or electronically, containing, at a minimum, sufficient information to identi…

A. The Arizona medical board is established. The board consists of twelve members, four of whom shall represent the public and eight of whom shall be actively practicing medicine. One of the four public members shall be a licensed practical nurse or a professional nurse, as defin…

A. The primary duty of the board is to protect the public from unlawful, incompetent, unqualified, impaired or unprofessional practitioners of allopathic medicine through licensure, regulation and rehabilitation of the profession in this state. The powers and duties of the board …

A. The board shall make available to the public a profile of each licensee. The board shall make this information available through an internet website and, if requested, in writing. The profile available to the public may not contain any information received from the federal bur…

A. The board shall hold regular quarterly meetings on a date and at the time and place designated by the chairman. The board shall hold special meetings, including meetings using communications equipment that allows all members participating in the meeting to hear each other, as …

A. Subject to title 41, chapter 4, article 4, the committee on executive director selection and retention established by section 32-1403 shall appoint an executive director of the board who shall serve at the pleasure of the committee. The executive director shall not be a board …

A. The Arizona medical board fund is established. Pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the board shall deposit fifteen percent of all monies collected under the provisions of this chapter in the state general fund and deposit the remaining eighty-five percent in the Arizona me…

(L24, Ch. 222, sec. 16. Eff. 7/1/28) A. The Arizona medical board fund is established. Pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the board shall deposit ten percent of all monies collected under the provisions of this chapter in the state general fund and deposit the remaining nine…

A. When the board receives a complaint concerning a physician who is also licensed pursuant to chapter 29 of this title, the board shall immediately notify the board of homeopathic and integrated medicine examiners. If the boards disagree and if both boards continue to claim juri…

B. For the purposes of this section: 1. "Medical preceptor" means a medical professional who is licensed pursuant to this chapter and who maintains an active practice in this state. 2. "Preceptorship": (a) Means a mentoring experience in which a medical preceptor provides a progr…

A. This article does not apply to any person while engaged in: 1. The provision of medical assistance in case of an emergency. 2. The administration of family remedies including the sale of vitamins, health foods or health food supplements or any other natural remedies, except dr…

A. An applicant for a license to practice medicine in this state pursuant to this article shall meet each of the following basic requirements: 1. Graduate from an approved school of medicine or receive a medical education that the board deems to be of equivalent quality. 2. Succe…

Beginning September 1, 2017, applicants for expedited licensure pursuant to section 32-3241 shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the board for the purpose of obtaining a state and federal criminal records check pursuant to section 41-1750 and Public Law 92-544. The departme…

In addition to the basic requirements for licensure prescribed in section 32-1422, any applicant who has graduated from an unapproved school of medicine shall meet each of the following requirements: 1. Be able to read, write, speak, understand and be understood in the English la…

A. In addition to the requirements for licensure prescribed in sections 32-1422 and 32-1423, an applicant for licensure under this article who attended a foreign school of medicine and successfully completed all the formal requirements to receive the degree of doctor of medicine …

A. An applicant who meets the applicable requirements provided in section 32-1422, 32-1423 or 32-1424, has passed steps one and two of the United States medical licensing examination or one of the examination combinations prescribed in section 32-1426, subsection A, paragraph 6, …

A. An applicant who is licensed in another jurisdiction or whose license under this chapter has been revoked or surrendered or has expired and who meets the applicable requirements prescribed in section 32-1422, 32-1423 or 32-1424, has paid the fees required by this chapter and h…

B. Each application submitted pursuant to this section shall contain the oath of the applicant that: 1. All of the information contained in the application and accompanying evidence or other credentials submitted are true. 2. The credentials submitted with the application were pr…

1. Holds an active and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a state, territory or possession of the United States or an inactive license pursuant to section 32-1431. 2. Has never had the license revoked or suspended. 3. Is not the subject of an unresolved complaint. 4. Ap…

A. The board may issue a registration to allow a doctor of medicine who is not a licensee to provide locum tenens medical services to substitute for or temporarily assist a doctor of medicine who holds an active license pursuant to this chapter or a doctor of osteopathy who holds…

A. Except as provided in section 32-4301, each person holding an active license to practice medicine in this state shall renew the license every other year on or before the licensee's birthday and shall pay the fee required by this article, accompanied by a completed renewal form…

A. A person holding a current active license to practice medicine in this state may request an inactive license from the board if both of the following are true: 1. The licensee is not presently under investigation by the board. 2. The board has not commenced any disciplinary pro…

A. A board approved school of medicine in this state or a teaching hospital's accredited graduate medical education program in this state may invite a doctor of medicine to provide and promote professional education through lectures, clinics or demonstrations. The doctor of medic…

A. The dean of a board approved school of medicine or the chairman of a teaching hospital's accredited graduate medical education program may invite a doctor of medicine who is not licensed in this state to demonstrate and perform medical procedures and surgical techniques for th…

A. The board shall grant a one year renewable training permit to a person participating in a teaching hospital's accredited internship, residency or clinical fellowship training program to allow that person to function only in the supervised setting of that program. Before the bo…

The executive director may grant a one year training permit to a person who: 1. Participates in a program at an approved school of medicine or a hospital that has an approved hospital internship, residency or clinical fellowship program if the purpose of the program is to exchang…

1. Within a two-year period immediately preceding initial application for a transitional training permit, was either: (a) Qualified to submit, and submitted, a valid application to an accredited internship or residency program but was not selected for a position. (b) Selected for…

On request of an active licensee, the board may cancel that person's license if both of the following are true: 1. The licensee is not presently under investigation by the board. 2. The board has not commenced any disciplinary proceeding against the licensee.

A. A person who holds an active license to practice medicine in this state shall satisfy a continuing medical education requirement that is designed to provide the necessary understanding of current developments, skills, procedures or treatment related to the practice of medicine…

A. Each active licensee shall promptly and in writing inform the board of the licensee's current residence address, office address and telephone number and of each change in residence address, office address or telephone number that may later occur. B. The board may assess the co…

A. The board shall by a formal vote, at its annual fall meeting, establish nonrefundable fees and penalties that do not exceed the following: 1. For processing an application for an active license, seven hundred dollars. 2. For issuance of an active license, seven hundred dollars…

A. The board shall issue a training permit to a qualified military health professional who is practicing allopathic medicine in the United States armed forces and who is discharging the health professional's official duties by participating in a clinical training program based at…

A. Beginning July 1, 2017, the board may issue a temporary license, which may not be renewed or extended, to allow a physician who is not a licensee to practice in this state for a total of up to two hundred fifty consecutive days if the physician meets all of the following requi…

A. The board may not require an applicant for licensure pursuant to this article to hold or maintain a specialty certification as a condition of licensure in this state. This subsection does not prohibit the board from considering an applicant's specialty certification as a facto…

A. The board on its own motion may investigate any evidence that appears to show that a doctor of medicine is or may be medically incompetent, is or may be guilty of unprofessional conduct or is or may be mentally or physically unable safely to engage in the practice of medicine.…

A. In connection with the investigation by the board on its own motion, or as the result of information received pursuant to section 32-1451, subsection A, the board or its duly authorized agents or employees at all reasonable times may examine and copy any documents, reports, re…

A. The board shall initiate an investigation pursuant to section 32-1451 if a medical regulatory board in another jurisdiction in the United States has taken disciplinary action against a licensee for an act that occurred in that jurisdiction that constitutes unprofessional condu…

A. The board shall not act on its own motion or on any complaint received by the board in which an allegation of unprofessional conduct or any other violation of this chapter against a professional who holds an Arizona license occurred more than four years before the complaint is…

Except for disciplinary matters brought pursuant to section 32-1401, paragraph 27, subdivision (aa), the board has the burden of proof by clear and convincing evidence for disciplinary matters brought pursuant to this chapter.

A. The board may establish a confidential program for the treatment and rehabilitation of doctors of medicine who are licensed pursuant to this chapter and physician assistants who are licensed pursuant to chapter 25 of this title and who are impaired by alcohol or drug abuse. Th…

A. The board may establish a confidential program for the evaluation, treatment and monitoring of persons who are licensed pursuant to this chapter and chapter 25 of this title and who have medical, psychiatric, psychological or behavioral health disorders that may impact their a…

Except as provided in section 41-1092.08, subsection H, an appeal to the superior court in Maricopa county may be taken from final decisions of the board pursuant to title 12, chapter 7, article 6.

A. An injunction shall issue forthwith to enjoin the practice of medicine by either of the following: 1. One not licensed to practice medicine or exempt from the requirement therefor pursuant to this chapter. 2. A doctor of medicine whose continued practice will or well might cau…

A. The following acts are class 5 felonies: 1. The practice of medicine by a person not licensed or exempt from licensure pursuant to this chapter. 2. Securing a license to practice medicine pursuant to this chapter by fraud or deceit. 3. Impersonating a member of the board in is…

A. A medical assistant may perform the following medical procedures under the direct supervision of a doctor of medicine, physician assistant or nurse practitioner: 1. Take body fluid specimens. 2. Administer injections. B. A medical assistant may place and remove urinary cathete…

A. Notwithstanding section 32-1401, it is not an act of unprofessional conduct for a doctor of medicine to report to the department of health services the name of a patient's spouse or sex partner or a person with whom the patient has shared hypodermic needles or syringes if the …

A. On written application, the board may issue a new license to a physician whose license was previously revoked by the board or surrendered by the applicant if the applicant demonstrates to the board's satisfaction that the applicant is completely rehabilitated with respect to t…

[Repealed or reserved.]

Any health care provider licensed or certified to practice as such in this state or elsewhere, or a licensed ambulance attendant, driver or pilot as defined in section 41-1831, or any other person who renders emergency care at a public gathering or at the scene of an emergency oc…

A health care provider licensed or certified pursuant to title 32 who agrees with any person or school to voluntarily attend an amateur athletic practice, contest or other event to be available to render emergency health care within the provider's authorized scope of practice and…