SB 1278 Summary

• Requires licensing boards for physicians (MD/DO), advance practice registered nurses, and podiatrists to develop preceptorship awareness campaigns educating licensed professionals on becoming preceptors for graduate students in their fields.

• Defines "preceptorship" as a mentoring experience providing personalized instruction, training, and supervision to enable students to obtain professional degrees and become licensed, excluding mentoring for certain medical services specified in section 36-2301.01.

• Amends physician dispensing laws for both MDs and osteopathic physicians to prohibit Schedule II opioid controlled substances except for implantable devices or medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders.

• Allows physicians in emergency departments to dispense up to a two-day supply of noncontrolled medications without individual registration if they dispense only to emergency department patients and work exclusively in the emergency department.

• Updates civil penalty language for unlicensed drug dispensing from "not less than three hundred dollars" to "at least $300" and from "one thousand dollars" to "$1,000" for both MD and DO physicians.