§ 8708. Licensure without examination.
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§ 8708. Licensure without examination. 1. Within eighteen months of
the effective date of regulations implementing the provisions of this
article, the department may issue a license to practice medical physics
with special competency in one or more specialties in this state,
without an examination, to a person who meets the requirements of
subdivisions one, five and six of section eighty-seven hundred five of
this article and who in addition has an earned bachelor's, master's or
doctoral degree from an accredited college or university that signifies
the completion of a course of study acceptable to the department, and
has demonstrated to the department's satisfaction, in the case of an
earned bachelor's degree, the completion of at least fifteen years of
full-time work experience in the medical physics specialty for which
application is made, or, in the case of an earned master's or doctoral
degree, the completion of at least two years of full-time work
experience in the five years preceding the date of application in the
medical physics specialty for which application is made and the
equivalent of one year or more of full-time work experience in the ten
years preceding the date of application for each additional specialty
for which application is made.
2. On receipt of an application and fee pursuant to section
eighty-seven hundred five of this article, the department may issue a
license to practice medical physics with special competency in one or
more specialties in this state to a person who holds a license to
practice medical physics in another state, territory or jurisdiction
that has requirements for licensing of medical physicists which the
department determines to be substantially the same as the requirements
of this article.