[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR35.51]

[Page 574]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 35_MEDICAL USE OF BYPRODUCT MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart B_General Administrative Requirements
 
Sec. 35.51  Training for an authorized medical physicist.

    Except as provided in Sec. 35.57, the licensee shall require the 
authorized medical physicist to be an individual who--
    (a) Is certified by a specialty board whose certification process 
includes all of the training and experience requirements in paragraph 
(b) of this section and whose certification has been recognized by the 
Commission or an Agreement State; or
    (b)(1) Holds a master's or doctor's degree in physics, biophysics, 
radiological physics, medical physics, or health physics and has 
completed 1 year of full-time training in therapeutic radiological 
physics and an additional year of full-time work experience under the 
supervision of an authorized medical physicist at a medical institution 
that includes the tasks listed in Sec. Sec. 35.67, 35.433, 35.632, 
35.633, 35.635, 35.642, 35.643, 35.645, and 35.652, as applicable; and
    (2) Has obtained written certification that the individual has 
satisfactorily completed the requirements in paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section and has achieved a level of competency sufficient to function 
independently as an authorized medical physicist for each type of 
therapeutic medical unit for which the individual is requesting 
authorized medical physicist status. The written certification must be 
signed by a preceptor authorized medical physicist who meets the 
requirements in Sec. 35.51, or, before October 24, 2005, Sec. 35.961, 
or equivalent Agreement State requirements for an authorized medical 
physicist for each type of therapeutic medical unit for which the 
individual is requesting authorized medical physicist status.

[67 FR 20370, Apr. 24, 2002; 67 FR 62872, Oct. 9, 2002, as amended at 68 
FR 19324, Apr. 21, 2003; 69 FR 55737, Sept. 16, 2004]