Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 3534.3

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Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate physician assistants who request participation in the program and to make recommendations to the program manager. In making recommendations, a committee shall consider any recommendations from professio

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Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities:
(a)
To evaluate physician assistants who request participation in the program and to make recommendations to the program manager. In making recommendations, a committee shall consider any recommendations from professional consultants on the admission of applicants to the diversion program.
(b)
To review and designate treatment facilities to which physician assistants in the diversion program may be referred, and to make recommendations to the program manager.
(c)
The receipt and review of information concerning
physician assistants participating in the program.
(d)
To call meetings as necessary to consider the requests of physician assistants to participate in the diversion program, to consider reports regarding participants in the program, and to consider any other matters referred to it by the board.
(e)
To consider whether each participant in the diversion program may with safety continue or resume the practice of medicine.
(f)
To set forth in writing the terms and conditions of the diversion agreement that is approved by the program manager for each physician assistant participating in the program, including treatment, supervision, and monitoring requirements.
(g)
To hold a general meeting at least twice a year, which shall be open and public, to evaluate
the diversion program’s progress, to prepare reports to be submitted to the board, and to suggest proposals for changes in the diversion program.
(h)
For the purposes of Division 3.6 (commencing with Section 810) of Title 1 of the Government Code, any member of a committee shall be considered a public employee. No board or committee member, contractor, or agent thereof, shall be liable for any civil damage because of acts or omissions which may occur while acting in good faith in a program established pursuant to this article.

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  Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To evaluate physician assistants who request participation in the program and to make recommendations to the program manager. In making recommendations, a committee shall consider any recommendations from professional consultants on the admission of a…