# COMAR Title 30 — Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS)

## Subtitle 08 — Designation of Trauma and Specialty Referral Centers

### Chapter 18 — Designated Acute Stroke Ready Center

#### Regulation .10 Qualifications of Stroke Center Director and Clinicians.

*COMAR 30.08.18.10*

A. The stroke center medical director shall be a physician with special competence in caring for the acute stroke patient who is clinically active at the facility and is Board certified or Board eligible in:

  (1) Neurology;

  (2) Internal medicine; or

  (3) Emergency medicine.

B. The stroke center medical director’s qualifications shall include active participation in the Stroke Quality Improvement Council (QIC) and 8 or more hours of category 1 CME credits related to stroke care annually.

C. Qualifications for stroke center physicians who care for stroke patients shall include 4 or more hours of category 1 or 2 CME credits per year related to stroke care.

D. Training for nonphysician stroke center professional staff who care for acute stroke patients shall include 4 or more hours of continuing medical education per year in the area of cerebrovascular disease.