Alabama Administrative Code › Title 700 - ALABAMA BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY › Chapter 700-X-2 - LICENSURE › Section 700-X-2-.10 - Renewal Of License

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) Annual
			 Renewal Required. Each license expires on October 1 of the year following its
			 issuance.
(2) Renewal Fee Required.
			 A renewal fee shall be required for annual renewal of license.
(3) Expired Renewal Fee. Anyone wishing to
			 renew an expired license after November 1st of the license issuance year shall
			 pay an Expired Renewal Fee. This Fee is in addition to the restoration fee set
			 by Administrative Regulation
			 700-X-2-.09. After the five-year
			 period, a license shall only be obtained by complying with the provisions
			 relating to the issuance of an original license.
(4) Continuing Education Required. Continuing
			 education activities are required to assure continued competency of licensees
			 and thereby public protection. Successful completion of continuing education
			 activities shall be a requirement for the renewal of licenses and for initial
			 licensure without examination.
(5)
			 Effective October 1, 2014, the Board does not pre-approve continuing education
			 providers, sponsors or individual programs. It is the licensee's
			 responsibility, using her/his professional judgment, to determine if the
			 continuing education activities they complete are applicable, appropriate, and
			 meet the requirements of the Board. All continuing education offerings,
			 regardless of source will be accepted provided that it is directly related to
			 the licensee's practice of physical therapy and meets the following general
			 guidelines.
(a) General Guidelines
1. Maintain, improve or expand skills or
			 knowledge of the practice of physical therapy
2. Contribute to the professional competency
			 of the licensee by means of an organized activity with clearly described or
			 outlined course content, dates or timelines for completion, and times of
			 instruction or activity engagement expectations
3. Pertain to common subjects related to the
			 practice of physical therapy and are based upon referenced scientific evidence;
			 practice-based evidence; case studies; clearly identified anecdotal experience;
			 current or proposed regulation of practice; accepted professional guidelines;
			 policy documents; or best practices
4. Conducted by experts in the subject matter
			 -individuals with special education, training, and experience,
5. Include stated program
			 goals/objectives.
6. Identify
			 target audience or describes prerequisite levels of experience
7. Describe requirements for successful
			 progression or completion when using self-directed methods of learning (i.e.,
			 self-study, online, video, audio, teleconference, etc.). Self-directed methods
			 of instruction may utilize a post-test but cannot result in a pass/fail
			 grade
8. Include a certificate or
			 other sufficient proof of completion -For a concurrent session conference that
			 does not provide documentation of individual session(s) completed, each
			 individual course attended must be verified by having a conference official or
			 course instructor sign or stamp the session description in the conference
			 program if the conference does not use an automated format that allows for
			 individual course verification