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(a) An applicant for renewal of an optometry license must document at least 24 contact hours of continuing education credit that meets the requirements of 12 AAC 48.200, and that was completed during the concluding licensing period.
(b) Continuing education credit received for a license period under (a) of this section must include at least 12 contact hours of ocular pathology or pharmacology.
(c) No more than three contact hours of credit in practice management is acceptable as continuing education credit under (a) of this section for each license period.
(d) An applicant for renewal of a pharmaceutical agent prescription and use endorsement must document, in addition to the requirements of (a) of this section, at least 12 contact hours of ocular pathology or pharmacology that was completed during the concluding licensing period.
(e) An applicant for renewal of an optometry license for the first time must document completion of at least one-half of the continuing education requirements in this section for each complete calendar year that the applicant was licensed during the concluding license period.
History: Eff. 4/24/71, Register 37; am 2/10/83, Register 85; am 2/26/89, Register 109; am 3/20/93, Register 125; am 11/2/2002, Register 164
Authority: AS 08.72.050
Editor's note: As of Register 109, 12 AAC 48.025 was redesignated as 12 AAC 48.210. The history note for the section under its former number was carried forward to the new location.
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