Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64B17 - Board of Physical Therapy Practice › Chapter 64B17-9 - CONTINUING EDUCATION › Section 64B17-9.001 - Continuing Education

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Every person
				licensed pursuant to Chapter 486, F.S., shall be required to complete
				twenty-four contact hours of continuing education courses approved by the Board
				in the twenty-four months preceding each biennial renewal period as established
				by the Department. With the exception of the required courses in the prevention
				of medical errors and HIV/AIDS, applicants who become licensed in the second
				half of the biennium are exempt from this continuing education requirement for
				their first renewal.
(2) A contact
				hour shall consist of fifty clock minutes. One half contact hour shall consist
				of twenty-five clock minutes. Ten contact hours, also referred to as CE Hours
				(CEH), constitute one continuing education unit (CEU).
(3) Acceptable subject areas for physical
				therapy continuing education include professional ethics, clinical education,
				clinical practice, clinical research, clinical management, clinical science,
				Florida law relating to physical therapy, basic sciences, risk management, and
				HIV/AIDS. No more than five contact hours of courses in risk management shall
				be accepted within a biennium. Up to three contact hours in HIV/AIDS education
				pursuant to rule Chapter 64B17-8, F.A.C., may be included in the 24 contact
				hours. Up to three contact hours in prevention of medical errors education
				pursuant to rule Chapter 64B17-8, F.A.C., may be included in the 24 contact
				hours.
(4) The Board will accept up
				to twelve contact hours for home study during a biennium.
(5) Course instructors providing continuing
				education to licensees under this chapter shall receive up to six contact hours
				credit per biennium. This shall be awarded on a contact hour for each contact
				hour presented. However, instructors teaching their normal course of
				instruction shall not be granted contact hours toward their continuing
				education.
(6) Clinical Instructors
				shall receive 1 contact hour for every 120 hours of clinical internship limited
				to a maximum of 8 contact hours per instructor per bienium. Clinical
				instructors must be credentialed by the American Physical Therapy Association
				(APTA) to receive clinical continuing education credits.
(7) The Board recognizes continuing education
				credit for the following:
(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 therapist
				assistants program, which is accredited by, or has status with an accrediting
				agency approved by the United States Department of Education. One credit hour
				of a college course is equivalent to 15 contact hours.
(b) Courses sponsored or approved by the
				American Physical Therapy Association.
(c) Courses sponsored or approved by the
				Florida Physical Therapy Association, so long as they meet the criteria set
				forth in subsection  64B17-9.001(3),
				F.A.C.
(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)
				Former Board members who serve on the Board's Probable Cause Panel shall
				receive five contact hours of continuing education risk management credit per
				biennium for their service on the Panel.
(f) Licensees who file DOH form DH-MQA 1144,
				"Final Order/Continuing Education Credit Florida Laws and Rules Application, "
				(revised 05/2021), incorporated herein by reference, which is available through
www.floridasphysicaltherapy.gov/resources
,
				or at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-13350
,
				and 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 who take
				and pass the examination as a result of a disciplinary proceeding or as a board
				ordered condition of initial licensure or reinstatement.