(a) As used in this chapter:(a) “Board” means the State Board of Medical Licensure.(b) “Physician assistant” means a person who meets the board’s criteria for licensure as a physician assistant and is licensed as a physician assistant by the board. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the licensure of anesthesiologist’s assistants.(c) “Supervising physician” means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds an unrestricted license from the board, and who is in the full-time practice of medicine and who has been approved by the board to supervise physician assistants.(d) “Supervision” means overseeing and accepting responsibility for the medical services rendered by a physician assistant in a manner approved by the board.
(a) “Board” means the State Board of Medical Licensure.
(b) “Physician assistant” means a person who meets the board’s criteria for licensure as a physician assistant and is licensed as a physician assistant by the board. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the licensure of anesthesiologist’s assistants.
(c) “Supervising physician” means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds an unrestricted license from the board, and who is in the full-time practice of medicine and who has been approved by the board to supervise physician assistants.
(d) “Supervision” means overseeing and accepting responsibility for the medical services rendered by a physician assistant in a manner approved by the board.