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333.090 Qualifications of laboratory director -- Limit on tests.
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Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the director
of a medical laboratory shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in
Kentucky.
The director of a medical laboratory may be the holder of an earned doctoral degree,
with a chemical, physical or biological science as his major subject, from an
institution accredited by an appropriate agency of the state or by any other
equivalent accrediting agency acceptable to the cabinet or from an institution which,
in the opinion of the cabinet, maintains standards equivalent to those of an
institution accredited as aforesaid, who subsequent to graduation has had at least
two (2) years of experience in the medical laboratory specialty for which he was
trained.
In the event an individual has been serving as a director of a medical laboratory in
Kentucky for a period of not less than a year prior to January 1, 1969, he may
continue to direct such medical laboratory notwithstanding the requirement of
subsections (1) and (2) of this section, provided, however, that the cabinet may
require (in the interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state)
as a condition precedent to the issuance of an original or renewal license hereunder,
that such individuals demonstrate their ability satisfactorily to perform medical
laboratory examinations and to direct a medical laboratory.
Tests performed in a laboratory directed by a nonphysician shall be limited to the
specialties or subspecialties of medical laboratory procedures for which the director
is personally qualified through education and experience and no medical
interpretation of test results, diagnosis, prognosis, or suggested treatment shall be
made.
History: Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 16.
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