1. A. For the purpose of protecting the health and well-being of the residents of this state and for maintaining and continuing informed professional knowledge and awareness, the board shall establish mandatory continuing educational requirements for licensees under its authority.
2. B. The board may suspend the license of a licensee who fails to comply with continuing medical education or continuing education requirements until the requirements are fulfilled and may take any further disciplinary action if the licensee fails to remediate the deficiencies, including revocation of license.

History: 1978 Comp., § 61-6-21, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 269, § 17; 2003, ch. 19, § 20; 2021, ch. 54, § 40.

ANNOTATIONS

Recompilations. — Laws 1989, ch. 269, § 18 recompiled former 61-6-21 NMSA 1978, relating to injunction to prevent practice without a license, as 61-6-22 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 1989.

The 2021 amendment, effective June 18, 2021, required the New Mexico medical board to establish mandatory continuing education requirements for licensees under its authority, and authorized the board to take disciplinary action if licensees fail to comply with continuing medical education; in Subsection A, deleted "The board may establish rules pertaining to continuing medical education for licensees." and added the remainder of the subsection; and in Subsection B, after "fulfilled", added "and may take any further disciplinary action if the licensee fails to remediate the deficiencies, including revocation of license".

The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, in Subsection A, deleted "and regulations" near the beginning, substituted "for licensees" for "for physicians and continuing education for physician assistants" at the end; in Subsection B, substituted "license of a licensee" for "license or registration of any physician or physician assistant" near the beginning, and deleted "such time as" following "requirements until".