License: Funeral Service Trainee

Department of Health Professions Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers

6606 West Broad Street

4th Floor

Richmond, VA 23230-1717

(804) 662-9908

Funeral service internship. A. The internship shall consist of at least 3,000 hours of training to be completed within no less than 12 months and no more than 48 months. For good cause shown, the board may grant an extension of time for completion of an internship. B. The funeral service intern shall be assigned a work schedule of not less than 20 hours nor more than 60 hours per week in order to receive credit for such training. For good cause shown, the board may waive the limitation on an intern's work schedule. C. A funeral service intern shall receive training in all areas of funeral service. Intern application package. A. Any person who meets the qualifications of _x0015_54.1-2817 of the Code of Virginia may seek registration with the board as a funeral service intern by submission of an application package, which shall include documentation of the qualifications and signatures of any supervising licensees. B. Applicants shall submit school transcripts as part of an application package, including the required fee and any additional documentation as may be required to determine eligibility. Qualifications of training site. The board shall approve only an establishment or two combined establishments to serve as the training site or sites which: 1. Have a full and unrestricted Virginia license; 2. Have complied in all respects with the provisions of the regulations of the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers; and 3. Have 50 or more funerals and 50 or more bodies for embalming over a 12-month period for each person to be trained. This total must be maintained throughout the period of training. If the establishment does not meet the required number of funerals or embalmings, the funeral service intern may seek approval for an additional training site. Reports to the board: six-month report; partial report. A. The intern, the supervisor or supervisors, and the establishment shall submit a written report to the board at the end of every 1,000 hours of training. The report shall: 1. Specify the period of time in which the 1,000 hours has been completed and verify that the intern has actually served in the required capacity during the preceding period; and 2. Be received in the board office no later than 10 days following the end of the completion of 1,000 hours. Late reports may result in additional time being added to the internship. B. If the internship is terminated or interrupted prior to completion of 1,000 hours or if the intern is changing supervisors or training sites, the intern and the supervisor shall submit a partial report to the board with a written explanation of the cause of program termination or interruption or of the change in training or supervision. 1. The partial report shall provide the amount of time served and the dates since the last reporting period. Credit for partial reports shall be given for the number of hours of training completed. 2. Partial reports shall be received in the board office no later than 10 days after the interruption or termination of the internship or after the change in supervisors or training sites. Credit may be deducted for late reports.