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Committee advances bill to convert military medical training into Kentucky credentials
Summary
The Senate Standing Committee on Health Services voted unanimously to advance House Bill 303, which would let people with U.S. military medical training have that education evaluated and credited toward state medical licenses and certifications.
Representative Steve Bratcher, the bill’s sponsor, told the Senate Standing Committee on Health Services that House Bill 303 would allow people who served in the U.S. military and received medical training to have that service evaluated and credited toward state credentials.
"House bill 303 is a bill that allows people that have been serving in the military, regardless of what branch, and have been trained in a medical field to be able to transition that education and that training over to a credential in the state," Bratcher said. He gave an example: an Air Force medic could have training recognized so they "can take the exact set for the state exam for an LPN license now without any additional training." He said the…
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