California Business and Professions Code

§ 2198

BPC § 2198 Effective Jan 1, 2004Div. 2 · Ch. 5 · Art. 10.5

Statute text

(a)This article shall be known and may be cited as the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act of 2003. The cultural and linguistic physician competency program is hereby established and shall be operated by local medical societies of the California Medical Association and shall be monitored by the Division of Licensing.

(b)This program shall be a voluntary program for all interested physicians. As a primary objective, the program shall consist of educational classes which shall be designed to teach physicians the following:

(1)A foreign language at the level of proficiency that initially improves their ability to communicate with non-English speaking patients.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 510, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2004.