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examination materials, or misused certification examination materials;

(11) has had a certificate or license as a health care provider revoked or suspended by the licensing or certifying authority of a state, territory, or country, or by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians;

(12) has knowingly, willfully, or grossly negligently violated patient privacy or confidentiality by releasing information to persons who are not directly involved in the care or treatment of the patient, or otherwise authorized to receive the information;

(13) has falsified or altered training records, certification records, or patient records, or participated in the release or issuance of false continuing medical education documents, including verifying continuing medical education for an individual who did not legitimately attend an educational session, or signing an individual into an educational session that the individual did not actually attend; or

(14) has committed an act that constitutes a violation of a federal, state or local law, and that recklessly endangers other EMS providers, public safety officials, students in an approved EMS training program, patients, or the general public. (c) The department will revoke, suspend, or deny an individual’s certification or recertification as an ETT instructor, EMS instructor, EMS instructor coordinator, or MICP course coordinator for one or more of the following reasons:

(1) improperly disclosing testing materials or the content of department administered examinations;

(2) knowingly enrolling, in a department approved training program, students who did not meet the requirements outlined in the applicable course approval provisions of this chapter;

(3) knowingly teaching more than one course that is required to be approved by the department without the courses being approved by the department under this chapter;

(4) using a curriculum that did not contain all of the objectives required for a course for which department approval is required under 7 AAC 26.050 or 7 AAC 26.450, as applicable; or

(5) teaching a course approved by the department that did not provide the minimum number of hours required under this chapter. (d) Revocations, suspensions, and refusals to certify or recertify on a ground set out in (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section are permanent. If the department, on a ground set out in (a)(3) of this section, revokes or suspends the certification of or refuses to certify or recertify an individual, the individual is not eligible to become certified again until 36 months after termination of the individual’s sentence, parole, or probation, whichever term ends latest. However, the department may lengthen or shorten this period based on the factors set out under (f) of this section. If the department, on a ground set out in (a)(4) of this section, revokes or suspends the certification of or does not certify or recertify an individual, if the individual is otherwise eligible for certification and if the department receives a written request from the individual that the