Article archive / December 1, 2009
Originally published: . Volume 1, No. 4. Source pages: 1, 5.
Application materials for medical psychologists are now posted on the State Medical Board’s webpage. Materials include a list of qualifications for licensure as a medical psychologist (MP) and for the Certificate of Advanced Practice.
The instructions noted that MPs need a license in psychology issued by LSBEP, a post-doctoral master’s degree in clinical psychopharmacology, and to have passed a national exam in psychopharmacology approved by the board.
Also noted was “Each applicant must pass the Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists (PEP) offered through the American Psychological Association's College of Professional Psychology.”
For the Certificate of Advanced Practice, recommendations of collaborating physicians are required. “The recommendation of two collaborating physicians”…“who are familiar with your competence to practice medical psychology is required for a certificate of advanced practice.” MPs with three years from the issuance of the original Certificate of Prescriptive Authority from the psychology Board, may qualify for Advanced Practice.
A listing of the key provisions of the Medical Psychology Practice Act was given beginning with the introduction, “Act 251 (2009) provides for the regulation of medical psychologists by Board of Medical Examiners and for further development of medical psychologists as a profession.”
Also mentioned on the site was the first meeting of the Medical Psychology Advisory Committee, held on September 16, 2009 in Baton Rouge at the Office of the Louisiana State Medical Society at 6767 Perkins Road.
This and other information can be found at http://www.lsbme.louisiana.gov/index.html.
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