Section 8705. Requirements and procedures for professional licensure  


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  • To
      qualify for a license as a professional medical physicist, an  applicant
      shall fulfill the following requirements:
        1. Application: file an application with the department;
        2.  Education:  have  received  an  education  including a master's or
      doctoral degree from an accredited college or university  in  accordance
      with  the  commissioner's  regulations. Such person shall have completed
      such courses of instruction as are deemed necessary by the  commissioner
      to  practice in the medical physics specialty in which the applicant has
      applied for a license;
        3. Experience: have experience in his or her medical physics specialty
      satisfactory to the board and  in  accordance  with  the  commissioner's
      regulations;
        4.  Examination:  pass  an examination in his or her medical specialty
      satisfactory to the board and  in  accordance  with  the  commissioner's
      regulations.  The  examination requirement may be waived by the board on
      recommendation of the commissioner for certain applicants with extensive
      experience as a medical physicist;
        5. Age: be at least twenty-one years of age;
        6. Fee: pay a fee of three  hundred  dollars  to  the  department  for
      admission  to a department conducted examination for licensure, a fee of
      one hundred fifty dollars for licensure with special competency  in  the
      first  specialty  and twenty-five dollars for each additional specialty,
      and a fee of  three  hundred  dollars  for  each  biennial  registration
      period.