NEW! CE Broker
Information for Providers and
Licensees - Licensees may subscribe now and receive the
personal benefits of continuing education tracking through
February 28, 2007. The renewal of your license will be affected by
continuing education tracking through the CE Broker system
beginning with the March 1, 2005 through February 28, 2007
licensure cycle.
64B6-5.001(1), F.A.C. - As a condition of the biennial renewal of an
active license, each hearing aid specialist must attend a total of 20
credit hours per biennium of board approved continuing education. The
following must be included within the required 20 hours:
1) 2 hours HIV/AIDS and other communicable illness (may take up to 4
hours)
2) 2 hours relating to hearing aid laws and rules
3) 2 hour course on preventing medical errors
Two hours of continuing education per year may be granted for
attendance at a regularly scheduled board meeting.
No person initially licensed in the biennium prior to renewal shall
be required to attend continuing education programs as a condition of
renewing the initial license.
Do not send CE information to the board office. Licensees are
required to retain continuing education documentation for four years.
Audits will be conducted at random to insure compliance with continuing
education requirements.
This profession does not approve continuing education providers, they
do approve continuing education programs or courses. Programs approved
by the International Institute of Hearing Instrument Studies shall
automatically be approved for credit.
Providers of individual programs may request approval upon showing
that they are relevant to and enhance the licensee's ability to dispense
hearing aids. Such request shall specifically state whether program
attendance will be restricted in any way. These individual program
requests should be submitted electronically to the Department of Health
at: CE Broker.
