New Mexico Register / Volume XXXIII, Issue 3 / February 8, 2022

This is an amendment to 16.6.9 NMAC, Section 8 effective 2/8/2022.

16.6.9.8 SUPERVISION OF INTERNS:

A. The purpose for the intern program in New Mexico shall be to safely complete advanced training for the graduating naprapathic intern in the areas including, but not limited to, history taking, exams, patient report of findings, treatment recommendations, treatment room control, staff management, general clinic policies, problem solving skills, team concepts, goal setting, administrative skills, and other training the [doctor] naprapathic practitioner may feel appropriate to complete the intern's advanced naprapathic training. This purpose enhances the professional training of the intern, the naprapathic college curriculum, the teaching skills of the [doctor] naprapathic practitioner, the professional status of the profession of naprapathic and the professional standard of naprapathic health care available to New Mexico consumers.

B. Supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner must have a current New Mexico license in "good standing" with the board and have been treating patients as a [naprapathy] naprapathic practitioner for at least three years.

C. Supervising doctor must have written verification from the college that the intern is in a [CCE, or] board approved equivalent thereof, accredited naprapathic college sanctioned intern program, and the [doctor] naprapathic practitioner must assure compliance to the guidelines of the institution’s intern program.

D. Supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner must personally train intern in naprapathic procedure.

E. Supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner must be physically in the [same treatment room] clinic overseeing the intern to provide care for any patient.

F. Public must be informed that the intern is an "intern naprapath”, not a licensed [in the state", and must sign an informed consent document approved by the board to this effect] naprapathic practitioner in the state.

G. Supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner may allow intern to assist in various exams and therapies [after being trained and cleared by the supervising doctor] on proper naprapathic procedures.

H. The supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner must inform the college if the intern is deemed professionally competent in the diagnosis or treatment of naprapathic patients.

I. A supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner may not supervise more than [two] six interns at one time.

J. Supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner shall register with the board the interns' names, the college they are from, and the term of the internship, and provide proof of malpractice insurance for the supervising [doctor] naprapathic practitioner in a minimum amount of $1,000,000 per person - $3,000,000 per occurrence coverage, at least 15 days before the first day of the internship.

K. The board is to be sent a copy of any report sent to the college involving the intern at the time the report is sent to the college.

[16.6.9.8 NMAC - N, 9/30/2004; A, 5/24/2010; A, 9/22/2011; A, 2/8/2022]