(a) Any person who meets all of the following eligibility requirements may apply for a special faculty permit:
(1) Is academically eminent. For purposes of this article, “academically eminent” means the applicant meets either of the following criteria:
(A) The person holds or has been offered a full-time appointment at the level of full professor in a tenure track position, or its equivalent, at an academic medical center, as defined in Section 2168, or a California medical school approved by the board.
(B) The person is clearly outstanding in a specific field of medicine or surgery and has been offered by the dean of a medical school or the dean or chief medical officer of an academic medical center a full-time academic appointment at the level of full professor or associate professor, and a great need exists to fill that position.
(2) Possesses a current valid license to practice medicine issued by another state, country, or other jurisdiction.
(3) Is not subject to denial under Section 480 or any provision of this chapter.
(4) Pays the fee prescribed for application for, and initial licensure as, a physician and surgeon.
(5) Has not held a position under Section 2113 for a period of two years or more preceding the date of the application. The board may, in its discretion, waive this requirement.
(b) The board shall exercise its discretion in determining whether an applicant satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).
(c) (1) The board shall establish a review committee composed of two members of the division, one of whom shall be a physician and surgeon and one of whom shall be a public member, one representative from each of the medical schools, and one individual selected pursuant to paragraph (3) to represent academic medical centers in California. The committee shall review and make recommendations to the board regarding the applicants applying pursuant to this section, including those applicants that a medical school or academic medical center proposes to appoint as a division chief or head of a department or as nontenure track faculty.
(2) The representative of the medical school or academic medical center offering the applicant an academic appointment shall not participate in any vote on the recommendation to the board for that applicant.
(3) The academic medical centers shall select by consensus, one individual to represent academic medical centers on the review committee.
(d) The board shall not approve more than five applications submitted pursuant to this section by academic medical centers in any calendar year.
(e) As used in this section, “academic medical center” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 2168.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 280, Sec. 4. (AB 2273) Effective January 1, 2021.)