Section 3516.5.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and in accordance with regulations established by the Medical Board of California, the director of emergency care services in a hospital with an approved program for the training of emergency care physician assistants, may apply to the Medical Board of California for authorization under which the director may grant approval for emergency care physicians on the staff of the hospital to supervise emergency care physician assistants.

(b) The application shall encompass all supervising physicians employed in that service.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize any one emergency care physician while on duty to supervise more than four physician assistants at any one time.

(d) A violation of this section by the director of emergency care services in a hospital with an approved program for the training of emergency care physician assistants constitutes unprofessional conduct within the meaning of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000).

(e) A violation of this section shall be grounds for suspension of the approval of the director or disciplinary action against the director or suspension of the approved program under Section 3527.

(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 332, Sec. 45. Effective January 1, 2013.)