§ 8705. Requirements and procedures for professional licensure.
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§ 8705. Requirements and procedures for professional licensure. To
qualify for a license as a professional medical physicist, an applicant
shall fulfill the following requirements:
1. Application: file an application with the department;
2. Education: have received an education including a master's or
doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in accordance
with the commissioner's regulations. Such person shall have completed
such courses of instruction as are deemed necessary by the commissioner
to practice in the medical physics specialty in which the applicant has
applied for a license;
3. Experience: have experience in his or her medical physics specialty
satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's
regulations;
4. Examination: pass an examination in his or her medical specialty
satisfactory to the board and in accordance with the commissioner's
regulations. The examination requirement may be waived by the board on
recommendation of the commissioner for certain applicants with extensive
experience as a medical physicist;
5. Age: be at least twenty-one years of age;
6. Fee: pay a fee of three hundred dollars to the department for
admission to a department conducted examination for licensure, a fee of
one hundred fifty dollars for licensure with special competency in the
first specialty and twenty-five dollars for each additional specialty,
and a fee of three hundred dollars for each biennial registration
period.