Section 12.48.210. Hours of continuing education required.

	(a)  An applicant for renewal of a biennial optometry license, must document at least 36 contact hours of continuing education credit that meets the requirements of 12 AAC 48.200, and that was completed during the concluding licensing period.  
	(b)  Continuing education credit received under (a) of this section must include at least 24 contact hours of ocular pathology or pharmacology.  
	(c)  No more than three contact hours of credit in practice management is acceptable as continuing education credit under (a) of this section for each license period.  
	(d)  An applicant for renewal of an optometry license must submit official verification of having successfully completed, not earlier than the four years immediately before the date of application for renewal  
		(1) eight hours of continuing education in the use and prescription of pharmaceutical agents that meets the requirements of 12 AAC 48.200(b) or (c); and  
		(2) seven hours of continuing education in the injection of nontopical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents that meets the requirements of 12 AAC 48.200(b) or (c); and  
		(3) may include continuing education hours used to satisfy the requirements of this paragraph in the total continuing education hours required under (a) and (b) of this section for renewal of a license.  
	(e)  An applicant for renewal of an optometry license for the first time must document completion of at least one-half of the continuing education requirements in this section for each complete calendar year that the applicant was licensed during the concluding license period.  

Authorities

08.72.050;08.72.181;08.72.272

Notes

Reference

12 AAC 48.011
12 AAC 48.200
12 AAC 48.230

Authority

AS 08.72.050 AS 08.72.181 AS 08.72.272 Editor's note: As of Register 109, 12 AAC 48.025 was redesignated as 12 AAC 48.210. The history note for the section under its former number was carried forward to the new location.

History

Eff. 4/24/71, Register 37; am 2/10/83, Register 85; am 2/26/89, Register 109; am 3/20/93, Register 125; am 11/2/2002, Register 164; am 4/11/2008, Register 186; am 10/16/2011, Register 200; am 12/2/2012, Register 204

References

12.48.025;12.48.210