                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REQUISITE TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF ASSISTANTS (§ 54.1-2950)

The Board shall establish a testing program to determine the training and
educational achievements of the physician assistant or the Board may accept
other evidence, such as experience or completion of an approved training
program, in lieu of testing and shall establish this as a prerequisite for
approval of the licensee&#8217;s application.
		Pending the outcome of the next examination administered by the National
Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, the Board may grant
provisional licensure to graduates of physician assistants curricula that are
approved by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician
Assistant. Such provisional licensure shall be granted at the discretion of the
Board.

HISTORY: 1973, c. 529, § 54-281.7; 1984, c. 46; 1988, c. 765; 1997, c. 806;
2013, c. 144; 2016, c. 450.