2018 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 5 - Medicine
ARTICLE 8.5 - Special Permits
Section 2168.1.
(a) Any person who meets all of the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special faculty permit:
(1) Is academically eminent. For purposes of this article, “academically eminent” means the applicant meets either of the following criteria:
(A) He or she holds or has been offered a full-time appointment at the level of full professor in a tenure track position, or its equivalent, at a California medical school approved by the Division of Licensing.
(B) He or she is clearly outstanding in a specific field of medicine or surgery and has been offered by the dean of a medical school in this state a full-time academic appointment at the level of full professor or associate professor, and a great need exists to fill that position.
(2) Possesses a current valid license to practice medicine issued by another state, country, or other jurisdiction.
(3) Is not subject to denial under Section 480 or any provision of this chapter.
(4) Pays the fee prescribed for application for, and initial licensure as, a physician and surgeon.
(5) Has not held a position under Section 2113 for a period of two years or more preceding the date of the application. The Division of Licensing may, in its discretion, waive this requirement.
(b) The Division of Licensing shall exercise its discretion in determining whether an applicant satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).
(c) (1) The division shall establish a review committee comprised of two members of the division, one of whom shall be a physician and surgeon and one of whom shall be a public member, and one representative from each of the medical schools in California. The committee shall review and make recommendations to the division regarding the applicants applying pursuant to this section, including those applicants that a medical school proposes to appoint as a division chief or head of a department or as nontenure track faculty.
(2) The representative of the medical school offering the applicant an academic appointment shall not participate in any vote on the recommendation to the division for that applicant.
(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 130, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2008.)
