THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT / THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK / ALBANY, NY 12234

 

                                                                                                                            

 

TO:                                  The Higher Education and Professional Practice Committee

 

FROM:                             Johanna Duncan-Poitier

 

SUBJECT:                        Report of the Committee on the Professions Regarding Licensing Petitions

 

DATE:                              September 15, 2005

 

STRATEGIC GOAL:         Goal 3

 

AUTHORIZATION(S):

 

 

Executive Summary

 

 

Issue for Decision (Consent Agenda)

 

          Should the Regents approve the recommendations of the Committee on the Professions pertaining to licensing petitions as listed on the attachment?

 

Proposed Handling

 

          The question will come before the Higher Education & Professional Practice Committee at its October 2005 meeting where it will be voted on and action taken.  It will then come before the Full Board at its October 2005 meeting for final action.

 

Procedural History

 

          Section 6506(5) of the Education Law and Part 24.7 of the Rules of the Board of Regents authorizes the Regents to waive education, experience and examination requirements for a professional license as well as confer the degree Doctor of Medicine.

 

Background Information

 

          There are 11 licensing petitions and 3 requests for the conferral of the degree Doctor of Medicine for review and approval.

 

 


Recommendation

 

It is recommended that the Regents approve the recommendations of the Committee on the Professions regarding licensing petitions.

 

Timetable for Implementation

 

          Approval of the Committee on the Professions’ recommendations will be effective October 7, 2005.


 

 

 

Cases Presented to Board of Regents on:  October 7, 2005                                                                                 SUMMARY REPORT

 

 

PROFESSION

EDUCATION

EXAMINATION

 

 

Experience

Confer Degree Doctor of Medicine

 

 

Three-Year

Limited License

Pre-Professional

 

Professional

Post-Graduate

 

Proficiency

 

Licensing

Architecture

 

 

 

 

 

05-23-03

to

05-26-03

 

 

 

Dentistry

 

05-10-50

 

 

 

 

 

 

05-18-59

 

Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05-115-60C

to

05-117-60C

 

Psychology

 

 

05-02-68

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veterinary Medicine

 

 

 

 

05-26-05

 

 

05-20-74

05-21-74

 

Veterinary Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05-01-77

 

 

OTHER:   .

 

 

 

 

Total for fiscal year to date:          186

 

Total for calendar year to date:    226

 


 

ARCHITECTURE

 

Petition for:  Waiver of New York State requirements pertaining to acceptability of licensing examinations for licensure by endorsement.

 

Summary Statement:  The petitioners listed below are all graduates of professionally accredited architecture programs who have applied for licensure in New York.  All have achieved, at a minimum, a Bachelor of Architecture degree.  All petitioners have substantial documented licensed experience in other states.

 

          Prior to 1983, certain states did not require the Equivalency Examination (EE) or the Qualifying Test (QT) if a candidate had a degree from an accredited architecture program, and granted licensure upon passage of the Professional Examination (PE).  Prior to 1975, most states recognized the Examination Syllabus (ES).  The petitioners passed either the national Professional Examination (PE) given prior to 1983, or portions of the national Examination Syllabus (ES) given prior to 1975.  Prior to 1983, New York State required passage of the Equivalency Examination (EE), or passage of the Qualifying Test (QT) in addition to passage of the national Professional Examination.  Each of the petitioners satisfied the examination requirement in his/her initial state of licensure by passing an acceptable licensing examination and attained licensure in that state.

 

          Section 7304(4) of Education Law and Section 69.3 of the Commissioner’s Regulations require for endorsement that “… an architect licensed in another state or jurisdiction as the result of successful completion of only the professional examination in use before 1983 may be granted licensure upon presentation of evidence of two years of work experience of a grade and character satisfactory to the State Board for Architecture and passage of a practical examination satisfactory to the State Board for Architecture …”

 

          The Department has no documentation of professional disciplinary actions against the petitioners.

 

          Each petitioner satisfied the examination requirement in his/her initial state of licensure and has extensive professional practice starting prior to 1983.  Since the above information illustrates evidence of competence within the profession, and in lieu of the practical examination, the Executive Secretary of the State Board for Architecture recommends that the examination requirement be considered satisfied and each applicant’s licensure in another state be accepted for endorsement in New York State.


 

NAME OF PETITIONER

LICENSURE

05-23-03

Robert Keenan

Chatham, NJ 07928

(1) Massachusetts, 1980; also licensed in     California.

 

05-24-03 

Karl R. Sonnenberg

                   Beaverton, OR 97007

 

(1) Indiana, 1978; also licensed in Ohio, Alaska, and North Carolina.

05-25-03  

Kenneth W. Tipton

Baton Rouge, LA 70810

(1)  Louisiana 1983; also licensed in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, and North Carolina.

 

05-26-03

                  Gary A. Whitfield

               Dana Point, CA 92629

 

(1)  California, 1976; also licensed in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

 

 

 

Recommendation:  The Committee on the Professions, in concurrence with the Executive Secretary of the State Board for Architecture, recommends that each applicant’s licensing examination requirement be considered satisfied for licensure through the endorsement route.


DENTISTRY

05-10-50

Guido Batalocco

Rochester, NY  14620

 

(Universita Degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, laurea, July 2002)

 

Petition for:  Acceptance of education.

 

Statement of Problem:  Dr. Batalocco did not complete the two academic years of study required in an accredited dental school program culminating in certification that the applicant has achieved the level of knowledge and clinical proficiency expected of a graduate of that school.  Such study is required for applicants completing a program of dental education in an unregistered or unaccredited dental school. 

 

          Dr. Batalocco completed the two-year advanced program in general dentistry at the Eastman Dental Center of the University of Rochester on June 30, 2005. This program is acknowledged by the State Board for Dentistry as the substantial equivalent of the two-year program required in regulation.

 

APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS:

QUALIFICATIONS:

Section 61 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education requires:

 

(1) Not less than 60 semester hours of preprofessional education including courses in general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology or zoology, and physics.

(1) Liceo Scientifico “G. Marconi,” Grosseto, Italy, 1996-97 and Universita Degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, 1997-98.

(2) Four academic years of dental education culminating in a degree in an acceptable dental school.

(2) Four years of acceptable dental education culminating in the degree of laurea at Universita Degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, 1998-2002.

(3) Two academic years of study in an accredited dental school program culminating in certification that the applicant has achieved the level of knowledge and clinical proficiency expected of a graduate of that school.

(3) Two-year advanced program in general dentistry at the University of Rochester, Eastman Dental Center, Rochester, New York, June 2005.


 

(4) Satisfactory scores on Parts I and II of the National Dental Board Examinations.

(4)

(5) Satisfactory performance on the clinical examination administered by the Northeast Regional Board of Dental Examiners.

(5)

(6) United States citizen or alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.

(6)

(7) Evidence of the required course in the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment.

(7)

 

RECOMMENDATION: The Committee on the Professions, in concurrence with the Executive Secretary of the State Board for Dentistry, recommends that the applicant's successful completion of the advanced program in general dentistry at the University of Rochester be accepted as the substantial equivalent of the required two academic years of dental study in a registered or accredited dental school program.


THREE-YEAR LIMITED LICENSE IN DENTISTRY

 

Petition for: Three-year limited license to practice Dentistry under Section 6604(6) of the Education Law.

 

Statement of Problem: The applicant listed below has satisfied the education and examination requirements for licensure as a dentist in New York State. The only requirement for full licensure that cannot be satisfied at this time is United States citizenship or immigration status as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.

 

          The applicant has an opportunity to practice dentistry in an area which has been designated a Federal Dental Health Professions Shortage Area and requests a three-year waiver of the citizenship requirement under Section 6604(6) of the Education Law. The applicant must sign an affidavit stating the exact location of the shortage area where she will practice before the three-year limited license will be issued.

 

Applicable Guidelines: Section 6604(6) of Education Law relates to the requirement of United States citizenship or permanent resident status for licensure as a dentist in New York State and allows the Board of Regents to grant a one-time, three-year waiver of this requirement for an alien dentist to practice in New York State if all other licensure requirements are satisfied and to grant an additional extension not to exceed six years to enable the alien to secure citizenship or permanent resident status, provided such status is being actively pursued.

 

NAME OF PETITIONER

05-18-59

Jennifer Arscott

New York, NY  10011

 

ACTION: The Department shall issue a three-year limited license to the applicant to practice dentistry in New York State in a Federal Dental Health Professions Shortage Area upon approval by the Department of all documentation needed to verify satisfaction of all dentistry licensure requirements other than citizenship and an acceptable Affidavit of Agreement on the applicant’s location of employment.  The limited license may be renewed upon the lawful submission of an application for an extension of not more than six years, at the discretion of the Department.


PSYCHOLOGY

05-02-68

Barbara Duarte Esgalhado

Brooklyn, New York 11201

 

(Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, Doctor of Philosophy in Developmental Psychology, May 1998)

 

Petition for:  Acceptance of predoctoral experience to satisfy the internship requirement.

 

Statement of Problem:   Dr. Esgalhado earned a doctoral degree in developmental psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has completed all the required didactic areas for licensure except for coursework in scientific and professional ethics and standards of practice and in issues of cultural and ethnic diversity.  Dr. Esgalhado’s doctoral program did not include an internship requirement.  Currently, Commissioner’s Regulations requires at least one year of predoctoral supervised practicum, internship, field experience, or applied research appropriate to the practice of psychology.

 

          The coursework in the developmental psychology doctoral program completed by Dr. Esgalhado was designed to prepare graduates not only for research but also for the practice of psychology.  While a doctoral student, Dr. Esgalhado completed over 2000 clock hours in the Early Childhood Group Therapy Program of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services Institute for Infants, Children, and Families.  This three-year training and experience that she completed contained the elements that would be required of a formal internship.

 

          Dr. Esgalhado asks that her three years of training and experience at the Institute for Infants, Children, and Families be accepted as the substantial equivalent of the supervised internship required in Regulations.  The Executive Secretary of the State Board for Psychology supports her request.

 

APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS:

 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

Sections 7603 and 6507 of the Education Law require:

 

(1)  Acceptable doctoral degree and program in psychology.

(1) Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, Master of Philosophy, 1996 and Doctor of Philosophy in Developmental Psychology, 1998.

 


 

(2)  Two years of satisfactory supervised experience.

(2)

(3)  Acceptable scores on a satisfactory licensing examination.

(3)  

(4)  Evidence of good moral character.

(4)  Good moral character.

(5)  Evidence of completion of the required course in identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment.

(5) 

 

RECOMMENDATION:  The Committee on the Professions, with the concurrence of the Executive Secretary of the State Board for Psychology, recommends that the applicant’s petition to have her predoctoral experience be accepted to satisfy the internship requirement be approved.

 


 

THREE-YEAR LIMITED LICENSE IN VETERINARY MEDICINE

 

Petition for:  Three-year limited license to practice veterinary medicine under Section 6704(6) of the Education Law.

 

Statement of Problem: The applicants listed below have met the education and examination requirements for licensure as veterinarians in New York State. The only requirement for full licensure that cannot be satisfied at this time is United States citizenship or immigration status as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.

 

          Each applicant also has a pending application for full veterinary medical licensure, which cannot be granted until he/she satisfies the citizenship or permanent residency requirement.

 

Applicable Guidelines: Section 6704(6) of Education Law relates to the requirement of United States citizenship or permanent resident status for licensure as a veterinarian in New York State and allows the Board of Regents to grant a one-time, three-year waiver (plus an extension of not more than one year) for an alien veterinarian to practice in New York State if all other licensure requirements are satisfied.

 

Name of Petitioner

05-20-74

Paul Nicholas de Silvia

Montague, NJ 07827

05-21-74

Suliman Ahmad Al-Ghazlat

New York, NY 10022

 

ACTION: The Department shall issue a limited license for a maximum of three years to practice veterinary medicine in New York State to each applicant, conditional upon approval by the Department of all documentation needed to verify satisfaction of all veterinary medicine licensure requirements other than citizenship. The limited license may be renewed upon the lawful submission of an application for an extension of not more than one year, at the discretion of the Department.


VETERINARY MEDICINE 

05-26-05                                    

Dale A. Hendrickson

Farmland, IN 47340-8924

 

(Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, D.V.M., 1968)

 

Petition for:  Waiver of New York State requirements pertaining to acceptability of licensing examinations for licensure by endorsement.

 

Statement of Problem:  Dr. Hendrickson graduated from an accredited college of veterinary medicine and took the National Board (NBE) examination in 1968.  Dr. Hendrickson has not taken the Clinical Competency Test (CCT), which was offered only from 1984 to 2000.  For New York State licensure, applicants who passed the NBE must also take the CCT.  Both the NBE and the CCT have been replaced by the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE).

 

Dr. Hendrickson is licensed in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio based on the NBE.  He has documented 36 years of practice.

 

In view of Dr. Hendrickson’s documentation of numerous years of practice as evidence of clinical competence, the Executive Secretary of the State Board for Veterinary Medicine recommends that the applicant’s license be accepted for endorsement in New York State, waiving the CCT examination requirement.

 

 

APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS: 

QUALIFICATIONS:

Section 6704 of the Education Law and Section 59.6 and Part 62 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education require:

 

(1) Completion of six years of preprofessional and professional postsecondary studies satisfactory to the department and graduation with a satisfactory degree in veterinary medicine.

(1)  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, D.V.M., June 1968.


 

(2) Acceptable scores on satisfactory licensing examinations or passing scores on an acceptable state licensing examination not in use in New York State and at least two years of satisfactory professional experience following licensure.

(2)(a) Passing score on June 1968 NBE examination; did not take the CCT.

 

(2)(b) Licensed as a veterinarian in Ohio, June 1968; Indiana, July 1968; Michigan, June 1991; North Carolina, June 1994; Kentucky, December 1997; and Illinois, July 2004. 

 

(2)(c) More than two years of satisfactory professional experience following licensure.

(3) United States citizenship or immigration status as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent resident status in the United States.

(3) United States citizen.

(4) Evidence of good moral character.

(4) Good moral character.

 

 

RECOMMENDATION:  The Committee on the Professions, in concurrence with the Executive Secretary of the State Board for Veterinary Medicine, recommends waiver of the CCT examination requirement and endorsement of the applicant's license.


 

THREE-YEAR LIMITED LICENSE IN VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY

 

Petition for:  Three-year limited license to practice veterinary technology under Section 6711(6) of the Education Law.

 

Statement of Problem: The applicant listed below has met the education and examination requirements for licensure as a veterinary technician in New York State. The only requirement for full licensure that cannot be satisfied at this time is United States citizenship or immigration status as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.

 

          The applicant also has a pending application for full veterinary technology licensure, which cannot be granted until she satisfies the citizenship or permanent residency requirement.

 

Applicable Guidelines: Section 6711(6) of Education Law relates to the requirement of United States citizenship or permanent resident status for licensure as a veterinary technician in New York State and allows the Board of Regents to grant a one-time, three-year waiver (plus an extension of not more than one year) for an alien veterinary technician to practice in New York State if all other licensure requirements are satisfied.

 

Name of Petitioner

05-01-77

Wonok Han

Astoria, New York 11106

 

ACTION: The Department shall issue a limited license for a maximum of three years to practice veterinary technology in New York State to the applicant, conditional upon approval by the Department of all documentation needed to verify satisfaction of all veterinary technology licensure requirements other than citizenship. The limited license may be renewed upon the lawful submission of an application for an extension of not more than one year, at the discretion of the Department.


 

MEDICINE

 

Petition for: Conferral of the degree Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) pursuant to Section 6529 of the Education Law.

 

Summary Statement: The petitioners listed below are all graduates of foreign medical schools who have been licensed in New York.

 

          The applicable requirements of Section 3.57 of the Rules of the Board of Regents require completion of a medical education program in a foreign medical school satisfactory to the Department which does not grant the degree Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), and in which the philosophy and curriculum were equivalent, as determined by the Department in accordance with the policy of the Board of Regents, to those in programs leading to the degree Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at medical schools in the United States satisfactory to, or registered by, the Board of Regents and the Department.  Secondly, petitioners must have licensure to practice medicine in New York State in accordance with provisions of Section 6524 or 6528 of the Education Law or their equivalent as determined by the Board of Regents pursuant to their authority under Section 6506 of the Education Law.

 

 

NAME OF PETITIONER

QUALIFICATIONS

05-115-60C

Glen Sorrentino

Tyler, TX 75707

(1)  Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, Physician & Surgeon, 6/8/01.

(2)  License #236549, issued on 6/16/05.

05-116-60C

Klaus Schreiber

Tarrytown, NY 10591

(1)  Justus Lieberg University, Giessen Germany, Physician, 10/31/68.

(2)  License #11573, issued on 1/25/72.

 

05-117-60C

Carolene Madden

Las Cruces, NM 88011

(1)  Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, Physician & Surgeon, 6/8/01.

(2)  License #236666, issued on 6/23/05.

 

RECOMMENDATION: The Committee on the Professions, in concurrence with the State Board for Medicine, recommends that the petitioners be awarded the degree Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in accordance with provisions of Section 6529 of the Education Law.