Removes the requirement that postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience required for licensure as a dentist needs to be clinically-based.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9967
SPONSOR: Glick TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to dental residencies
qualified for licensure
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Subdivision 3 of section 6604 of the Education Law is amended
to remove the clinically-based restriction on accredited dental residen-
cy programs that satisfy the experience requirement for dental licen-
sure.
Section 2: Provides that the bill shall take effect immediately.
JUSTIFICATION:
Certain well-recognized accredited dental residency programs in oral
medicine, orofacial pain, and dental public health are excluded from
satisfying the experience requirement for dental licensure because they
are not deemed to be purely clinically-based specialty residencies. This
prevents qualified dental school graduates with accredited residency
training from obtaining a license when their residency programs are
perfectly adequate to allow them to practice the profession of dentis-
try. This bill eliminates an unnecessary restriction on dental residency
programs, recognizing that the New York State Education Department
assesses all formal outcome assessments evaluating any resident's compe-
tence to practice dentistry.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is new legislation.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
This legislation will have no fiscal implications.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9967
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to dental residencies
qualified for licensure
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6604 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 726 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (3) Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and in
5 accordance with the commissioner's regulations, provided that such expe-
6 rience shall consist of satisfactory completion of a [clinically-based]
7 postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program, of
8 at least one year's duration, in a hospital or dental facility accred-
9 ited for teaching purposes by a national accrediting body approved by
10 the department, provided, further that any such residency program shall
11 include a formal outcome assessment evaluation of the resident's compe-
12 tence to practice dentistry acceptable to the department;
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15406-01-2
