1. (a) Any physician associate who notifies the Board in writing on forms prescribed by the Board may elect to place that physician associate’s license on inactive status. A physician associate whose license is inactive shall be excused from payment of renewal fees and shall not practice as a physician associate. Any licensee who engages in practice while that licensee’s license is inactive shall be considered to be practicing without a license, which shall be grounds for discipline under § § 1774B of this title. A physician associate whose license has been inactive for 3 years or less may reactivate the license by paying the renewal fee pursuant to § § 1774A of this title and meeting the requirements for ordinary license renewal as determined by the Board.
2. (b) If a physician associate whose license has been on inactive status for in excess of 3 years and who has not practiced as a physician associate in any jurisdiction of the United States for over 3 years requests to reactivate the license, the Board may grant a re-entry license and may, after consultation with the Council, impose additional practice and collaboration requirements for the re-entry license. A re-entry license granted under this subsection shall be valid for no longer than 6 months and may be renewed only once at the Board’s discretion. In the month immediately preceding the month during which the re-entry license will expire, a physician associate may apply to the Board for a full license as a physician associate. The Board shall grant a full license to a physician associate who meets all qualifications for licensure and whom the Board determines is qualified to practice. If the Board determines that a physician associate is still not qualified to receive a full license at the conclusion of the re-entry license period, the Board may only once renew the re-entry license. If the Board elects to renew a re-entry license instead of issuing a full license, the Board shall provide to the physician associate a written explanation for that decision when issuing the renewed re-entry license.

Additional practice requirements that the Board may choose to impose as a condition of a re-entry license may include any of the following:

1. (1) Requiring the collaborating physician to be physically on-site while the physician associate is practicing.
2. (2) Requiring the collaborating physician to review and countersign a portion of patient charts for patients seen by the physician associate.
3. (3) Requiring the physician associate to possess current certification from the NCCPA.
4. (4) Requiring the physician associate to take a review course or to complete a specified amount of Category 1 CME, as determined by the Council and agreed upon by the Board as appropriate.
5. (5) Requiring documentation of a specific minimum number of clinical practice hours performed under the re-entry license.
6. (6) Requiring the physician associate to have a collaborative agreement with a physician for a specified number of hours.
7. (c) Subsection (b) of this section also applies to a physician associate who has not placed the physician associate’s license on inactive status in this State but who has previously practiced as a physician associate in another jurisdiction of the United States and has not actively engaged in clinical practice for a period in excess of 3 years immediately prior to applying for a license under this subchapter.

78 Del. Laws, c. 387, § 2; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 83 Del. Laws, c. 16, § 2; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 1; 85 Del. Laws, c. 253, § 1