STATE BOARD REQUIREMENTS

Directing Discipline: State Medical Board Responsiveness to State Legislatures.

State medical boards are increasingly responsible for regulating medical and osteopathic licensure and professional conduct in the United States. Yet, there is great variation in the extent to which such boards take disciplinary action against physicians, indicating that some boards are more zealous regulators than others. We look to the political roots of such variation and seek to answer a si...

Effectiveness of State Reserve Requirements

In recent years many banks have withdrawn from the FRS, and the primary reason given is that they must hold a larger share of their assets in non-earning form as members than if they were nonmembers.1 The FRS has proposed to reduce member bank reserve requirements as a means of making membership more attractive. State bank regulators, however, might wish to counter this action in order to keep ...

Editorial Board

State medical board regulation of minimally invasive cosmetic procedures.

BACKGROUND There is little information regarding commonalities, differences, and trends in the regulation of minimally invasive cosmetic procedures (MICP) across different state medical boards in the United States. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess current state medical board regulations regarding MICP, so as to better understand current and emerging trends in rules regarding delegation, and mana...

Improving state medical board policies: influence of a model.

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 31 (2003): 119–129. © 2003 by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. espite advances in medical knowledge regarding pain management, pain continues to be significantly undertreated in the United States. There are many drug and nondrug treatments, but the use of controlled substances, particularly the opioid analgesics, is universally accepted for the ...