3701 - Commissioner; powers and duties. - New York Statutes

§ 3701. 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 physician's assistants and specialist's assistants by their supervising physician, 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's assistants may be registered by the education department pursuant to section sixty-five hundred forty-one 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's assistant shall be established: (a) for areas in which allied health professions are presently licensed under the education law or the public health law; 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 physician's assistants and specialist's 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 physician's assistants and specialist's assistants; 5. to furnish the education department with suggested criteria which may be used by the education department to help determine whether an applicant for registration as a physician's assistant or specialist's assistant possesses equivalent education and training, such as experience as a nurse or military corpsman, which may be accepted in lieu of all or part of an approved program; 6. to adopt such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article.