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Terms Used In 10 Guam Code Ann. § 12215

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
(a) At the time of renewal of licensure, the Board shall require the licensee to demonstrate to its satisfaction his or her continuing qualification for medical licensure. The application form for license reregistration shall be designed to require the licensee to update and/or add to the information in the Board’s file relating to the licensee and his or her professional activity. It shall also require the licensee to report to the Board the following information.

(1) any action taken against the licensee by:

(A) any jurisdiction or authority, United States or foreign that licenses or authorizes the practice of medicine;

(B) any peer review body;

(C) any health care organization;

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(D) any professional medical society or association;

(E) any law enforcement agency; (F) any court; and
(G) any governmental agency for acts or conduct similar to acts or conduct described in the medical practice act as grounds for disciplinary action;

(2) any adverse judgment, settlement or award against the licensee arising from a professional liability claim.

(3) the licensee’s voluntary surrender of, or voluntary limitation on, any license or authorization to practice medicine in any jurisdiction, including military, public health and foreign;

(4) any denial to the licensee of a license or authorization to practice medicine by any jurisdiction, including military, public health and foreign;

(5) the licensee’s voluntary resignation from the medical staff of any health care organization or voluntary limitation of his or her staff privileges at such an organization if that action occurred while the licensee was under formal or informal investigation by the organization, or a committee hereof, for any reason related to possible medical incompetence, unprofessional conduct, or mental or physical impairment;

(6) the licensee’s voluntary resignation or withdrawal from a national, state or county medical society, association or organization if that action occurred while the licensee was under formal or informal investigation or review by that body for any reason related to possible medical incompetence, unprofessional conduct, or mental or physical impairment;

(7) whether the licensee has abused or has been addicted to or treated for addiction to alcohol or any chemical substance during the registration period;

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(8) whether the licensee has had any physical injury or disease or mental illness within the registration period that affected or interrupted his or her practice of medicine; and

(9) the licensee’s completion of continuing medical education or other forms of professional maintenance and/or evaluation, including specialty board certification or recertification, within the registration period.

(b) The Board shall be authorized, at its discretion, to require continuing medical education for license re-registration and to require documentation of that education.

(c) The licensee shall be required to sign the application form for license re-registration and have it notarized. Failure to report fully and correctly shall be grounds for disciplinary action by the Board.

(d) The Board shall be directed to establish an effective system for reviewing re-registration forms. It shall also be authorized to initiate investigations and/or disciplinary proceedings based on information submitted by licensees for license re-registration.

2013 NOTE: In maintaining the general codification scheme of the GCA the Compiler changed the hierarchy of subsection (a)(1) beginning with “”numbers”” to “”Uppercase letters.””