Section 601.8 - Licensure Qualifications(a) Eligibility. To be eligible for a license, a person must: (1) have an earned master's or doctoral degree: (A) from a program of study in medical physics that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP);(B) from a regionally accredited college or university in physics, medical physics, biophysics, radiological physics, medical health physics or equivalent courses; or(C) from a regionally accredited college or university:(i) in physical science (including chemistry), applied mathematics or engineering; and(ii) have twenty semester hours (30 quarter hours) of upper division semester hour credit or graduate level physics courses, if offered:(I) by the faculty of a Department of Physics and would be acceptable in meeting undergraduate or graduate degree requirements in physics of the offering department; or(II) by the faculty of a program accredited in medical physics by the CAMPEP; or(III) by the faculty of another science department and acceptable to the board.(2) have demonstrated, to the board's satisfaction, the completion of at least two years of full-time work experience;(3) have work experience in more than one specialty to include six additional months of full-time equivalent work experience in each additional specialty; and(4) submit a completed application as required by the Act, § 602.203.(b) Work experience. Full-time work experience shall be at least 32 hours per week in the specialty area. Part-time work experience may be aggregated in order to meet the minimum of 32 work hours per week. All work experience must have been completed in the five years preceding the date of application for licensure as a medical physicist, upgrade or temporary license in the medical physics specialty for which application is made.(c) Foreign academic credit. Degrees and course work received at foreign universities shall be acceptable only if such course work could be counted as transfer credit by regionally accredited universities. An applicant having a foreign degree(s) must furnish at the applicant's own expense an evaluation of the foreign degree(s) from a commercial evaluation service. The degree evaluation must be sent directly to the board by the evaluation service. An applicant must submit with the application complete certified copies or documented proof of the degree(s) awarded (masters or doctorate) and the date it was awarded. Documents written in languages other than English shall be accompanied by a certified English translation.(d) Approved specialty examination. An applicant under this section must successfully complete one of the following examinations in each specialty for which application is submitted: (1) for the therapeutic radiological physics specialty, the examination offered by: (A) the American Board of Radiology or its successor organization in therapeutic radiological physics, radiological physics or therapeutic medical physics;(B) the American Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in radiation oncology physics; or(C) the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics or radiation oncology physics;(2) for the medical nuclear physics specialty, the examination offered by: (A) the American Board of Radiology or its successor organization in medical nuclear physics, radiological physics or nuclear medical physics;(B) the American Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in nuclear medicine physics;(C) the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine or its successor organization in physics and instrumentation or in molecular imaging science; or(D) the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics or nuclear medicine physics;(3) for the diagnostic radiological physics specialty, the examination offered by: (A) the American Board of Radiology or its successor organization in diagnostic radiological physics, radiological physics or diagnostic medical physics;(B) the American Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in diagnostic imaging physics or diagnostic radiology physics; or(C) the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics; or(4) for the medical health physics specialty, the examination offered by:(A) the American Board of Radiology or its successor organization in radiological physics;(B) the American Board of Health Physics or its successor organization in health physics or comprehensive health physics;(C) the American Board of Medical Physics or its successor organization in medical health physics;(D) the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine or its successor organization in radiation protection; or(E) the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine or its successor organization in general medical physics.(e) Upgrade. Following successful completion of the required examination as set out in subsection (d) of this section and the relevant work experience, a temporary licensee may upgrade the temporary license to a medical physicist license.(1) A medical physicist license shall not be issued until the applicant has passed the examination. The application procedures set out in § 601.6 of this title (relating to Application Procedures) shall apply except that the applicant need not file a transcript unless additional relevant course work has been completed.(2) The temporary licensee must also submit three current professional references as follows: (A) two medical physicists. If the applicant is applying for one specialty, both physicists must be practicing in that specialty area. If the applicant is applying for two or more specialties, one physicist must be practicing in one of those specialties and the other physicist must be practicing in another one of the specialties for which the applicant is making application; and(B) one licensed physician practicing in at least one of the specialties for which the applicant is making application; however, if the applicant is applying for a license in the specialty area of medical health physics, the physician may be practicing in diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, or nuclear medicine.(f) Expired temporary license. A person whose temporary license has expired may not upgrade the temporary license to a medical physicist license. Application must be made under the provisions set out in § 601.6 of this title.22 Tex. Admin. Code § 601.8
The provisions of this §601.8 adopted to be effective December 15, 1992, 17 TexReg 8440; amended to be effective June 27, 1995, 20 TexReg 4344; amended to be effective October 7, 1996, 21 TexReg 9234; amended to be effective February 4, 1999, 24 TexReg 559; amended to be effective August 5, 2001, 26 TexReg 5808; amended to be effective January 2, 2008, 32 TexReg 10003; amended to be effective August 30, 2012, 37 TexReg 6594