For the purposes of this article:
(a) “Commission” means the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission.
(b) “Division” means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California.
(c) “Practice of medicine” or “medical practice” means all activities authorized by a physician’s and surgeon’s certificate, except activities performed in the course of employment as a public health officer, as a medical school faculty member where teaching time is more than 25 percent of the working day, or as a resident or first-year postgraduate trainee.
(d) “Primary care services” means those medical services involving the specialties of general practice, family practice, general internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, and general pediatrics.
(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 582, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2004.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018