California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 13.2 - Physical Therapy Board of California › Article 2 - Applications and Examinations › Section 1398.26.5 - Clinical Service Requirements for Foreign Educated Applicants

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The period of
				clinical service required by Section
				2653 of the Code shall be
				certified by at least one supervising physical therapist (the supervising
				physical therapist is the Center Coordinator of Clinical Education and/or the
				credentialed Clinical Instructor) licensed by the board, or by a physical
				therapy licensing authority in another jurisdiction which is accepted by the
				board.
(b) For the purposes of this
				regulation, supervision means the supervising physical therapist must be onsite
				in the same facility and available to the physical therapist license applicant
				to provide assistance with any patient care.
(c) Effective January 1, 2008, the Center
				Coordinator of Clinical Education (CCCE) must be an American Physical Therapy
				Association (APTA) credentialed Clinical Instructor. Effective January 1, 2010,
				all Clinical Instructors must be APTA credentialed.
(d) The certification shall be submitted in a
				report to the board and shall document the supervising physical therapist's
				determination that the physical therapist license applicant possesses the
				skills necessary to perform any physical therapy evaluation or any physical
				therapy procedure of patient care within the California healthcare system. The
				supervising physical therapist's evaluation of the physical therapist license
				applicant shall be prepared utilizing the
Physical Therapist Clinical
				Performance Instrument
issued by the American Physical Therapy
				Association in December of 1997, incorporated by reference herein, or the
				Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy's Supervised Clinical Practice
				Performance Evaluation Tool, dated September 2013, incorporated by reference
				herein, and completed pursuant to subsection (g). The certification shall
				include two evaluations of the physical therapist license applicant's skills.
				One evaluation shall determine the skill level mid-way through the period of
				clinical service and the other evaluation shall determine the skill level at
				the end of the clinical service. Both evaluations shall be reported at the end
				of the period of clinical service.
(e) Three (3) months of the required nine (9)
				months of clinical service shall be waived by the board if the physical
				therapist license applicant successfully completes a course in Law and
				Professional Ethics as offered by a post-secondary educational institution or
				by successfully completing four (4) continuing education units in Ethics
				offered by a continuing education provider recognized by a California
				healthcare board.
(f) One (1) month
				of clinical service shall be waived for each month of licensed clinical
				practice in another state up to the required total of nine (9)
				months.
(g) To create an account
				for access to the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy's Clinical
				Practice Performance Evaluation Tool on their website at fsbpt.org/SCPPET, the
				supervising physical therapist must enter their email, first and last name,
				create a password, and choose California as the jurisdiction.
1. New section
				  filed 12-9-2004; operative 1-8-2005 (Register 2004, No. 50).
2.
				  Change without regulatory effect amending subsections (b), (d) and (e) filed
				  9-21-2015 pursuant to section
				  100, title 1, California Code of
				  Regulations (Register 2015, No. 39).
3. Amendment of subsections (a)
				  and (c)-(d) and new subsection (g) filed 5-9-2023; operative 5-9-2023 pursuant
				  to Government Code section
				  11343.4(b)(3)
				  (Register 2023, No. 19).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 2615,
					 Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections
					 2650
					 and
					 2653,
					 Business and Professions Code.