Section 302 – Qualifications to practice podiatry.

Effective 5/12/2020
58-5a-302. Qualifications to practice podiatry.
An applicant for licensure to practice podiatry shall:

• (1) submit an application in a form as prescribed by the division;

• (2) pay a fee as determined by the department under Section 63J-1-504;

• (3) provide satisfactory documentation of having successfully completed a program of professional education preparing an individual as a podiatric physician, as evidenced by having received an earned degree of doctor of podiatric medicine from a podiatry school or college accredited by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education;

• (4) if licensed on or after July 1, 2015, satisfy the division and board that the applicant:
  • (a) has successfully completed 24 months of resident training in a program approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education; or
  • (b)
    • (i) has successfully completed 12 months of resident training in a program approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education after receiving a degree of doctor of podiatric medicine as required under Subsection (3);
    • (ii) has been accepted in, and is successfully participating in, progressive resident training in a Council on Podiatric Medical Education approved program within Utah, in the applicant’s second or third year of postgraduate training; and
    • (iii) has agreed to surrender to the division the applicant’s license as a podiatric physician without any proceedings under Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act, and has agreed the applicant’s license as a podiatric physician will be automatically revoked by the division if the applicant fails to continue in good standing in a Council on Podiatric Medical Education approved progressive resident training program within the state; and

• (5) pass examinations required by rule.

Amended by Chapter 339, 2020 General Session