North Dakota Century Code Title 23. Health and Safety § 23-16-18. Maintenance of certification

a. “Continuing medical education” means continued postgraduate medical education required by the North Dakota board of medicine intended to educate medical professionals about new developments in the medical field.

b. “Maintenance of certification” means a process requiring periodic recertification examinations or other activities to maintain specialty medical board certification. Recertification may be provided by a medical professional organization, such as one or more of the medical specialty boards of the American board of medical specialties, the American osteopathic association, the national board of physicians and surgeons, or any other board a credentialing entity recognizes.

c. “Physician” means a physician licensed under chapter 43-17.

d. “Specialty medical board certification” means certification by a board specializing in one particular area of medicine and having requirements in addition to those the North Dakota board of medicine requires to practice medicine.

a. The facility's designation, certification, or accreditation is contingent on the facility requiring a specific maintenance of certification by physicians seeking staff privileges or credentialing at the facility and the differentiation is limited to those physicians whose maintenance of certification is required for the facility's designation, certification, or accreditation; or

b. The voting physician members of the facility's organized medical staff vote to authorize the differentiation and the facility's governing body approves the vote.