TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 18

PHYSICIANS AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

54-1805.  state board of medicine established. (1) There is hereby established in the division of occupational and professional licenses a state board of medicine to be composed of eleven (11) members.

(2)(a)  Six (6) members shall be physicians who are licensed and engaged in the active practice of medicine in this state, one (1) member shall be licensed and engaged in the active practice of osteopathic medicine in this state, one (1) member shall be licensed and engaged in the active practice of podiatric medicine in this state, one (1) member shall be a physician assistant who is licensed and engaged in the active practice of medicine in this state, and two (2) members shall be public members.

(b)  All members of the board shall be residents of this state.

(c)  All members of the board shall be appointed by the governor for five (5) year terms and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor.

(d)  Public members must be persons of integrity and good reputation who have lived in this state for at least five (5) years immediately preceding their appointment, who have never been authorized to practice a healing art, and who have never had a substantial personal, business, professional, or pecuniary connection with a healing art or with a medical education or health care facility, except as patients or potential patients.

(3)  Appointments to fill vacancies occurring from some other reason than expiration of a term for which a member was appointed shall be made in the same manner as hereinabove set forth for the unexpired term.

(4)  The board shall elect a chairman from its membership. The members of the board, except for state employees, shall be compensated as provided by section 59-509(p), Idaho Code. Six (6) members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and the board may act by virtue of a majority vote of members present at a meeting.

History:

[54-1805, added 1977, ch. 199, sec. 6, p. 540; am. 1980, ch. 247, sec. 64, p. 627; am. 1990, ch. 106, sec. 1, p. 213; am. 1998, ch. 39, sec. 1, p. 166; am. 2000, ch. 469, sec. 125, p. 1586; am. 2016, ch. 340, sec. 22, p. 943; am. 2019, ch. 26, sec. 5, p. 56; am. 2021, ch. 222, sec. 16, p. 630; am. 2026, ch. 217, sec. 3, p. 907.]