Scope of practice, delegatory authority, agent of supervising physician

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  • (a) Physician assistants practice medicine with physician supervision, as provided in section 50j. Physician assistants may perform those duties and responsibilities, including the ordering, prescribing and dispensing and administering of drugs and medical devices that are delegated by their supervising physician or physicians.

  • (b) Physician assistants may provide any medical service that is delegated by the supervising physician when the service is within the physician assistant's skills, forms a component of the physician's scope of practice, and is provided with supervision. Physician assistants may not perform any tasks that are outside of the scope of practice of the supervising physician or physicians. The scope of practice of a supervising physician encompasses those tasks that the physician has adequate training and experience to perform. Each supervising physician must submit his written attestation to the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners stating that he has adequate training and experience for the physician assistant duties that he will supervise. Within 20 business days of the date of initiation, change, or termination of a contract to supervise a physician assistant, each physician with the respective change in supervising capacity of a physician assistant must submit to the Virgin Islands Board of Medical Examiners an update of his physician assistant's scope of service parameters.

  • (c) With the supervising physician's approval, physician assistants may pronounce death and may authenticate with their signature any form that may be authenticated by a physician's signature.

  • (d) Physician assistants shall be considered the agents of their supervising physicians in the performance of all practice-related activities, including but not limited to, the ordering of diagnostic, therapeutic, and other medical services.


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