§ 37:1360.57 — Certificate of advanced practice

Louisiana § 37:1360.57

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 37: Professions and Occupations

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§1360.57. Certificate of advanced practice
A medical psychologist who obtains a medical psychology license in accordance with
R.S. 37:1360.55 and who possesses all of the following additional qualifications to the
satisfaction of the board shall be issued a certificate of advanced practice:
(1) Three years of experience practicing as a medical psychologist.
(2) Treatment of a minimum of one hundred patients involving the use of a range of
psychotropic medications, including but not limited to antipsychotics, antidepressants,
psychostimulants, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, and hypnotics, that demonstrate the
competence of the medical psychologist.
(3) The recommendation of two collaborating physicians, each of whom holds an
unconditional license to practice medicine in Louisiana, and who are each familiar with the
applicant's competence to practice medical psychology.
(4) The recommendation of the Medical Psychology Advisory Committee.
(5) The completion of a minimum of one hundred hours of continuing medical
education relating to the use of medications in the management of patients with psychiatric
illness commencing with the issuance of a license by the board in accordance with R.S.
37:1360.55.

Legislative History

Acts 2009, No. 251, §11, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2024, No. 731, §1.