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SECTION 4530-4532
4530. The board shall prepare and maintain a list of accredited schools which offer an accredited program for psychiatric technicians. 4531. The course of instruction of an accredited school shall consist of not less than the number of hours or semester units of instruction required for the other program administered by the board. The subjects of instruction shall include the principles of the care of the mentally disabled and the developmentally disabled. Clinical inpatient experience shall be an integral part of that prescribed or equivalent course of study and training. The experience shall be obtained in a state hospital, except where the board finds that the requirement is not feasible due either to the distance of a state hospital from the school or the unavailability, as determined by the Department of Developmental Services or the Department of Mental Health, of state hospital clinical training placements. 4532. The board shall provide for the periodic inspection of all psychiatric technician schools in this State. Written reports of the inspection shall be made to the board, which shall then approve as accredited the schools which meet the standards prescribed by it. If the board determines from a report that any accredited school is not maintaining its prescribed standards, it shall immediately give the school a notice in writing specifying the defect. If the defect is not corrected the board shall, after written notice, remove the school from the accredited list.
