499, 585, 828 and 893, F.S.; and the 2006 Edition of the “Practitioner’s Manual,” an informational outline of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, published by the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] of the United States Department of Justice, which is hereby incorporated by reference and available at http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference. asp?No=Ref-12135. [Please note that the DEA is updating its manuals. For more information, see https://deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/index. html.] … (4) In order to obtain licensure, the candidate must receive a passing score on each portion of the examination. The candidate must receive a score of 425 on the NAVLE. A candidate who fails to achieve a passing score on any part of the examination will only be required to retake the parts failed so long as those scores remain valid. (5) A passing score on the veterinary Laws and Rules examination shall be a score of seventy percent (70%) or better. All questions shall be weighted equally and percentages shall be rounded off to whole numbers. In rounding percentages, any percentage which is point five (.5) or above shall be rounded up to the next whole number. Percentages less than point five (.5) shall be dropped. To be valid, a passing score on the veterinary law portion of the examination must have been achieved on an examination taken within the two year period prior to the date of the administration of the first examination offered in Florida subsequent to the filing of the application for licensure. (6) The North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE) may be taken in another state or Canada and the scores may, upon submission of an application for licensure and the application fee, be transferred to Florida for purposes of satisfying the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination’s (NAVLE) portion of the examination for licensure. The concerned North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE) must have been taken and successfully completed as outlined above within five years prior to the date of the administration of the first examination offered in Florida subsequent to the filing of the application for licensure. Examination and Reexamination Fees (61G18-12.002; updated in 2022) (1) Any time a person applies to take or retake any or all portions of an examination, as set forth below, that person must submit an application on forms provided by the department, an application fee of $100.00, and an examination fee for each portion of the examination to be taken. (2) For those applicants taking the Laws and Rules examination, when the examination is not conducted by a professional testing service pursuant to Section 455.2171, F.S., the examination fee shall be $165.00 payable to the department. When the examination is conducted by a professional testing service pursuant to Section 455.2171, F.S., the examination fee shall be $140.25 payable to the department plus $24.75 payable to the testing service. When conducted by a professional testing service, applicants retaking the Laws and Rules examination shall only pay the fee payable to the testing service. (3) The examination and reexamination fees are refundable only if the applicant is ruled ineligible to take the examination. Continuing Education Requirements for Active Status License Renewal (61G18-16.002; updated in 2020) (1) All licensed veterinarians shall be required to obtain continuing professional education which contributes to the advancement, extension, or enhancement of professional skills and knowledge in the field of veterinary medicine.
(2) Licensed veterinarians shall complete a minimum of thirty (30) hours of continuing professional education in veterinary medicine every biennium. Beginning on June 1, 2012, no less than one (1) hour of continuing education shall be in the area of dispensing legend drugs and no less than two (2) hours of continuing education shall be in the area of the laws and rules governing the practice of veterinary medicine. For the purposes of this rule, the laws and rules governing the practice of veterinary medicine are Chapters 455 and 474, F.S., and rule Division 61G18, F.A.C. (a) One (1) hour equals a minimum of fifty (50) minutes and a maximum of sixty (60) minutes. Total hours of lecture time cannot be added up and divided into 50-minute intervals to obtain 1 hour of credit for each 50-minute interval. (b) Not more than fifteen (15) hours shall be non- interactive, correspondence courses. Interactive Distance Education Courses are not correspondence courses. (c) “Interactive Distance Education Course” means a competency-based learning course presented through live, synchronous technology or through prerecorded video coupled with a means for course attendees to ask questions of the instructor(s) and receive responses in a timely manner. Such courses may be presented through video conferencing technologies or interactive computer-based applications. (d) Five (5) hours of continuing education in laws and rules may be obtained once per biennium by attending one full day or eight (8) hours of a Board meeting (whichever is shorter) at which disciplinary hearings are conducted by the Board of Veterinary Medicine by complying with the following: 1. The licensee must sign in with the Executive Director of the Board or designee before the meeting day begins. 2. The licensee must remain in continuous attendance. 3. The licensee must sign out with the Executive (e) Not more than five (5) hours in complementary and alternative medicine modalities shall be credited toward the required number of continuing professional education hours referenced above. (f) A licensed veterinarian shall receive credit for no more than five (5) hours of continuing professional education in business or practice management courses during any biennium period. (g) A licensed veterinarian shall receive credit for no more than five (5) hours of continuing professional education in wellness and wellbeing seminars during any biennium period. (3) During the license renewal period of each biennium, an application for renewal will be mailed to each licensee at the last address provided to the Board. Failure to receive any notification during this period does not relieve the licensee of the responsibility of meeting the requirement. The application for renewal shall include a form on which the licensee shall state that he has completed the required continuing education. The licensee must retain for a period of not less than three years from the date the course was taken certificates of attendance or verification from the provider, to document completion of the continuing Director of the Board or designee at the end of the meeting day or at such other earlier time as affirmatively authorized by the Board. A licensee may receive continuing education credit for attending the Board meeting only if he or she is attending on the date solely for the purpose of obtaining continuing education; he or she may not receive credit if appearing at the Board meeting for another purpose.
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