- A. License. A physician shall obtain a license to practice medicine in Maryland before the physician may perform, delegate, assign, or supervise cosmetic medical procedures or the use of cosmetic medical devices.
B. Education.
- (1) A physician who performs, assigns, supervises, or delegates the performance of cosmetic medical procedures by a non-physician first shall obtain training in the indications for and performance of the cosmetic medical procedures and operation of any cosmetic medical device to be used.
- (2) Training programs provided by a manufacturer or vendor of cosmetic medical devices or supplies may not be a physician's only education in the cosmetic medical procedures or the operation of the cosmetic medical devices to be used.
- (3) ACCME or AOA approved continuing education, or completion of an ACGME or AOA accredited postgraduate program that includes training in the cosmetic medical procedure performed satisfies this requirement.
Authority: Health Occupations Article, §§14-205, 14-306, 14-404, 14-606, and 15-302, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: August 23, 2010 (37:17 Md. R. 1185)
Regulation .02B amended effective March 14, 2016 (43:5 Md. R. 386); December 31, 2018 (45:26 Md. R. 1246)