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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 391
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Article - Health Occupations
11-404.1.
(a) Unless certified under this section, a licensed optometrist may not
administer or prescribe any therapeutic pharmaceutical agents or remove superficial
foreign bodies from a human eye, adnexa, or lacrimal system.
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Board
shall certify a licensed optometrist as a therapeutically certified optometrist if the
licensed optometrist submits to the Board evidence satisfactory to the Board that the
licensed optometrist:
(i) Has successfully completed at least 110 hours of a therapeutic
pharmaceutical agents course approved by the Board;
(ii) Has successfully passed a pharmacology examination relating
to the treatment and management of ocular disease, which is prepared, administered,
and graded by the National Board of Examiners in Optometry or any other nationally
recognized optometric organization as approved by the Secretary; [and]
(iii) Is currently certified by the Board to administer topical ocular
diagnostic pharmaceutical agents under § 11-404 of this subtitle; AND
(IV) HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A 24-HOUR AN 8-HOUR
COURSE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF TOPICAL PHARMACEUTICAL AGENTS AND THE
REMOVAL OF RESIDUAL PARTICULATE MATTER THROUGH THE USE OF AN ALGER
BRUSH STEROIDS APPROVED BY THE BOARD.
(2) (i) Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, an
optometrist who has graduated on or after July 1, [199?] 2005 from an accredited
school of optometry recognized by the Board is not subject to the requirements of
paragraph (1) of this subsection.
(ii) If an optometrist who has graduated on or after July 1, [1992]
2005 from an accredited school of optometry recognized by the Board is not certified
under this section within 3 years of graduation, the optometrist shall successfully
complete a therapeutic pharmaceutical agents course and successfully pass a
pharmacology exam under paragraph (1) of this subsection before the Board may
certify the optometrist.
11-404.2.
(a) In this section, "refer" means that a therapeutically certified optometrist:
(1) Informs the patient that the patient should see an ophthalmologist
and give the ophthalmologist an opportunity to physically examine the patient; and
(2) Refrains from rendering further treatment for the specific condition
that is the basis for the referral until the patient has been physically examined by an
ophthalmologist.
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