Section 677.512 – Licensure; renewal; fees; rules.
(1) A person seeking licensure as a physician assistant shall complete an application form provided by the Oregon Medical Board and submit the form to the board, accompanied by nonrefundable fees for the application and for the license in amounts determined by rule of the board. (2) The board may issue a license to a […]
Section 677.812 – Surgery on ankle; limitations.
Surgery of the ankle as defined in ORS 677.805 must be conducted: (1) In a hospital or in an ambulatory surgical center licensed by the Oregon Health Authority under ORS 441.025; and (2) By a podiatric physician and surgeon who meets the qualifications for ankle surgery established by rule of the Oregon Medical Board. [1999 […]
Section 677.515 – Medical services provided by physician assistant.
(1) A physician assistant may provide any medical service, including prescribing and administering controlled substances in Schedules II through V under the federal Controlled Substances Act: (a) That is within the scope of practice of the physician assistant; and (b) For which the physician assistant has obtained informed consent as provided in ORS 677.097, if […]
Section 677.814 – Assisting in surgery.
A podiatric physician and surgeon may assist in performing surgery on any part of the body. [2009 c.465 §2; 2013 c.129 §17]
Section 677.518 – Authority to sign reports of death.
A physician assistant, practicing under the supervision of a supervising physician or a supervising physician organization, is authorized to complete and sign reports of death. Reports of death signed by a physician assistant shall be accepted as fulfilling all of the laws dealing with reports of death. A physician assistant who prepares a report of […]
Section 677.520 – Performance of medical services by unlicensed physician assistant prohibited.
Performance of any medical services by a physician assistant after the revocation or suspension of the license by the Oregon Medical Board, after expiration of a temporary license or in the absence of renewal of a license constitutes the unauthorized practice of medicine and subjects the physician assistant to the penalties provided in ORS 677.990. […]
Section 677.525 – Fees; how determined.
Every physician assistant shall pay to the Oregon Medical Board nonrefundable fees as determined by the board pursuant to ORS 677.265. [Formerly 677.232; 1983 c.486 §48; 1989 c.830 §34]
Section 677.474 – Administration of controlled substances for pain allowed; exceptions.
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and notwithstanding ORS 678.010 to 678.410 and ORS chapters 679 and 689, a health care professional may prescribe or administer controlled substances to a person in the course of treating that person for a diagnosed condition causing pain. (2) A health care professional shall not be subject […]
Section 677.480 – Discipline.
ORS 677.474 does not prohibit a health professional regulatory board from placing on probation or denying, revoking, limiting or suspending the license of any health care professional who does any of the following: (1) Prescribes or administers a controlled substance or treatment that is nontherapeutic in nature or nontherapeutic as administered or prescribed or that […]
Section 677.487 – Continuing medical education related to Alzheimer’s disease.
(1) The Oregon Medical Board shall encourage each physician with a specialty in primary care or geriatrics, or another specialty designated by the board, to obtain continuing medical education in the detection and early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and in the appropriate prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to treat patients with Alzheimer’s disease. (2) The continuing […]