H.C.R. 157 Summary

• Urges the Hawaii Medical Board to adopt rules requiring clinical physician practitioners to complete 12 hours of continuing medical education on palliative care every four years to maintain licensure.

• Palliative care education addresses symptom relief including pain, nausea, fatigue, depression, and anxiety.

• Excludes non-clinical physicians from the requirement, including medical examiners, pathologists, nuclear medicine doctors, podiatrists, public health physicians, sports medicine physicians, and those performing strictly administrative functions.

• Directs certified copies of the resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Hawaii Board of Medical Examiners.