2014 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 37-A - (3710 - 3711) SPECIALIST ASSISTANTS
3711 - Commissioner; powers and duties.

  3711.  Commissioner; powers and duties. The commissioner shall have
  the following powers and duties:
1. to promulgate regulations defining and restricting the duties which
  may be assigned to specialist  assistants,  the  degree  of  supervision
  required and the manner in which such duties may be performed;
2.  to  promulgate  regulations  establishing  such  different medical
  specialties for which specialist assistants may  be  registered  by  the
  education  department pursuant to section sixty-five hundred forty-eight
  of the education law as will most effectively increase  the  quality  of
  medical  care  available  in  this  state;  provided,  however,  that no
  category of specialist assistant shall be established: (a) for areas  in
  which  allied  health professions are licensed pursuant to the education
  law or this chapter; or (b) relating  to  the  practice  of  surgery  or
  practice  in the intensive care unit of any general hospital, as defined
  pursuant to article twenty-eight of this chapter.
3. to conduct and support continuing studies respecting the nature and
  scope of the duties of specialist assistants in order to  promote  their
  effective functioning as members of the health care team;
4.  to  determine  the  desirability  of  and  to  establish rules for
  requiring continuing education of specialist assistants;
5. to furnish the education department with suggested  criteria  which
  may  be used by the education department to help determine the education
  and training requirements for a specialist assistant;
6. to adopt such other rules and regulations as may  be  necessary  or
  appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article.