Continuing Education

As a condition of biennial licensure renewal:

• Each licensee must complete forty (40) hours of continuing psychological education.

• UPDATE REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REQUIREMENT: The Domestic Violence CE is now a 2-hour requirement every third renewal. The last biennial renewal in which this course was required was the period June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2006.
  The next licensure renewal in which this requirement must be met, for ALL licensees, is for the biennial period June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2012.


• Three (3) of the forty (40) hours must be on professional ethics and Florida statutes and rules affecting the practice of psychology.


• Two (2) of the forty (40 hours must relate to prevention of medical errors, including a study of root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety. If the course is offered by a facility licensed pursuant to chapter 395 for its employees, the Board will approve up to one (1) hour of the two (2) hour course to be specifically related to error reduction and prevention methods used in that facility.


• Passage of the laws and rules examination of the Board constitutes forty (40) hours of continuing education credit, including credit for professional ethics and Florida Statutes and rules affecting the practice of psychology.


• Passage of the laws and rules examination, however, does not satisfy the requirement for the two (2) credit hours of continuing education on domestic violence required every third biennial licensure renewal period, nor the requirement for two (2) hours relating to prevention of medical errors.

The Board of Psychology does not approve individual programs. Therefore, see 64B19-13.003, F.A.C. for qualifying criteria of courses to be offered.

Approved Medical Errors Courses: In order to receive credit for medical errors courses, psychologists must take courses that have been approved by the Board of Psychology. The following providers offer medical errors courses approved by the Board. As courses are approved the Web page will be updated.

A list of approved continuing education providers is available at www.CEBroker.com.

Continuing Education Providers

To become a board approved provider, please see: CE Broker Information for Providers and Licensees.

Medical Errors Providers: In order for providers to offer medical errors courses for psychologists, each medical errors course must be approved by the Board. To submit a medical errors course, please complete a course application online at www.CEBroker.com. Providers that are not already Board approved or rule/statute approved (see Section 64B19-13.003, F.A.C.) must also complete a provider application online at www.CEBroker.com.

Many of the programs that have been developed to allow Florida health care practitioners to satisfy the course requirement on prevention of medical errors are exclusively geared for clinicians working within medical settings. This may be inadequate for psychologists, in terms of clinical relevance and applicability. Consequently, in order to be approved to offer the medical errors prevention course to psychologists, providers must develop course content that moves beyond that which is typically found in the medically-oriented programs (i.e., wrong site surgery). In addition to including a study of root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety, providers should discuss areas within mental health practice that carry the potential for "medical" errors. Examples would include improper diagnosis, failure to comply with mandatory abuse reporting laws, inadequate assessment of potential for violence (e.g., suicide, homicide), failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder.

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