New Medical Specializations Added to Licensing Requirements
This proposed bill would add three new medical specializations—clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist—to the list of terms that can legally be used by healthcare professionals in their names to indicate they are practicing medicine or osteopathic medicine. Before this change, only certain existing terms were allowed for such use. This affects anyone who wants to represent themselves as having expertise in these new specializations. The effective date is not specified.
Only certain existing terms were allowed for healthcare professionals to use in their names to indicate they are practicing medicine or osteopathic medicine.
This proposed bill would add three new medical specializations—clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and medical virtualist—to the list of terms that can legally be used by healthcare professionals in their names to indicate they are practicing medicine or osteopathic medicine. Before this change, only certain existing terms were allowed for such use. This affects anyone who wants to represent themselves as having expertise in these new specializations. The effective date is not specified.