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CE Broker
Information for Providers and
Licensees - Licensees may subscribe now and receive the
personal benefits of continuing education tracking through November
30, 2009. The renewal of your license will be affected by continuing
education tracking through the CE Broker system beginning with the
December 1, 2007 through November 30, 2009 licensure cycle.
Every licensee must complete 24 hours of approved continuing education (CE)
within the two year (biennium) licensure period which includes the following:
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Two (2) hours of prevention of medical errors education
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As of July 1, 2006, licensees will no longer be required by Chapter 456, F.S.,
to take an HIV/AIDS course for each renewal. However, physical therapists and
physical therapist assistants are required to take an approved HIV/AIDS for
their first renewal only.
Applicants licensed in the second half of the biennium (On and after December
1) are exempt from this CE requirement for their first renewal except for the one (1) hour HIV/AIDS.
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Up to twelve hours may come from home study/online courses
For a listing of approved courses or to have a course you have already taken
approved, please contact the Florida Physical Therapy Association (FPTA) at
(850) 513-0083 or their website: http://www.fpta.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=63
** It is the licensees’ responsibility to keep CE certificates and APTA/FPTA
provider numbers in their records for four (4) years. Courses that have not
been pre-approved may be submitted for approval to the FPTA by the licensee.
The Board of Physical Therapy accepts the following for continuing education
credit:
(a) courses sponsored by a program in physical therapy at a college or
university which provides a curriculum for training physical therapists or
physical therapist assistants when approved by the physical therapy or
physical therapy assistants program, which is accredited by, or has status
with an accrediting agency approved by the United States Department of
Education, or;
(b) courses sponsored by the American Physical Therapy Association or any of
its components, 1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, or;
(c) courses approved by the Florida Physical Therapy Association, 2104 Delta
Way Unit 7, Tallahassee, FL 32303 so long as they meet the criteria
set forth in 64B17-9.001(3), F.A.C. Their website is http://www.fpta.org.
(d) Attendance at Florida Board meetings where disciplinary cases are being
heard if the licensee is not on the agenda or appearing for another purpose.
The number of risk management contact hours for such attendance is based on
the definition of contact hour as set forth in subsection (2).
(e) Members of the Board’s Probable Cause Panel shall receive five hours of
continuing education risk management credit per biennium for their service on
the Panel.
(f) Licensees who take and pass the Florida laws and rules examination shall
receive two (2) hours of continuing education per biennium. The continuing
education credit shall be awarded only for the biennium in which the
examination was taken and passed. Continuing education credit shall not be
awarded to licensees that take and pass the examination as a result of a
disciplinary proceeding or as a board ordered condition of initial licensure,
re-activation or reinstatement.
Information about Inactive Status:
If I place my license on inactive status and pay the inactive renewal fee, am
I exempt from the continuing education requirements? You are not required to
obtain continuing education to place or maintain your license on inactive
status. However, to reactivate an inactive license, you will be required to
show 20 hours of continuing education for each biennium of inactive status and
24 hours of continuing education for the preceding biennium during which the
licensee held an active license. If you are not practicing in Florida or in
the physical therapy profession and would like to keep your license, you may
want to place your license in the inactive status.
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