§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.

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