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2023 Florida Statutes (including 2023C)
Chapter 458
MEDICAL PRACTICE Entire Chapter
MEDICAL PRACTICE Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 458
MEDICAL PRACTICE
458.301
Purpose.
458.303
Provisions not applicable to other practitioners; exceptions, etc.
458.305
Definitions.
458.307
Board of Medicine.
458.309
Rulemaking authority.
458.310
Restricted licenses.
458.311
Licensure by examination; requirements; fees.
458.3115
Restricted license; certain foreign-licensed physicians; examination; restrictions on practice; full licensure.
458.3124
Restricted license; certain experienced foreign-trained physicians.
458.313
Licensure by endorsement; requirements; fees.
458.3135
Temporary certificate for visiting physicians to practice in approved cancer centers.
458.3137
Temporary certificate for visiting physicians to obtain medical privileges for instructional purposes in conjunction with certain plastic surgery or other medical or surgical training programs and educational symposiums.
458.314
Certification of foreign educational institutions.
458.3145
Medical faculty certificate.
458.3147
Medical school eligibility of military academy students or graduates.
458.315
Temporary certificate for practice in areas of critical need.
458.3151
Temporary certificate for active duty military and veterans practicing in areas of critical need.
458.316
Public health certificate.
458.3165
Public psychiatry certificate.
458.317
Limited licenses.
458.3175
Expert witness certificate.
458.319
Renewal of license.
458.3191
Physician survey.
458.3192
Analysis of survey results; report.
458.3193
Confidentiality of certain information contained in physician workforce surveys.
458.320
Financial responsibility.
458.321
Inactive status.
458.323
Itemized patient billing.
458.324
Breast cancer; information on treatment alternatives.
458.325
Electroconvulsive and psychosurgical procedures.
458.3255
Electronic-communications diagnostic-imaging or treatment services.
458.326
Intractable pain; authorized treatment.
458.3265
Pain-management clinics.
458.327
Penalty for violations.
458.328
Office surgeries.
458.329
Sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine.
458.3295
Concerted effort to refuse emergency room treatment to patients; penalties.
458.331
Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the board and department.
458.3311
Emergency procedures for disciplinary action.
458.3312
Specialties.
458.335
Prescription or administration of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO).
458.336
Drugs to treat obesity; rules establishing guidelines.
458.337
Reports of disciplinary actions by medical organizations and hospitals.
458.339
Physician’s consent; handwriting samples; mental or physical examinations.
458.341
Search warrants for certain violations.
458.343
Subpoena of certain records.
458.345
Registration of resident physicians, interns, and fellows; list of hospital employees; prescribing of medicinal drugs; penalty.
458.347
Physician assistants.
458.3475
Anesthesiologist assistants.
458.348
Formal supervisory relationships, standing orders, and established protocols; notice; standards.
458.3485
Medical assistant.
458.351
Reports of adverse incidents in office practice settings.