[Effective 1/1/2025]

(a) The board of medical examiners, in consultation with the board of osteopathic examination, shall promulgate rules regulating the use of graduate physician collaborative practice arrangements for graduate physicians. The rules must specify:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-20-109

  • Graduate physician: means a medical school graduate who:
    (A) Is a resident and citizen of the United States or a legal resident alien in the United States. See Tennessee Code 63-20-102
  • Graduate physician collaborative practice arrangement: means an agreement between a licensed physician and a graduate physician that meets the requirements of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-20-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) The geographic areas to be covered;
(2) The methods of treatment that may be covered by the graduate physician collaborative practice arrangement;
(3) The educational methods and programs to be performed during the collaborative practice service, developed in consultation with deans of medical schools and primary care residency program directors in this state, which must facilitate the advancement of the graduate physician’s medical knowledge and capabilities, the successful completion of which may lead to credit toward a future residency program that deems the documented educational achievements of the graduate physician through the methods and programs acceptable; and
(4) Require review of the services provided under a graduate physician collaborative practice arrangement.
(b) A collaborating physician shall not enter into a graduate physician collaborative practice arrangement with more than three (3) graduate physicians at the same time.
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