Why is Continuing Competence so Important?

Maintaining your competence is critical to your career, the physical therapy profession and the public.

• Patients have every right to assume that a health care provider's license to practice provides assurance of his or her current professional competence.

• Clinicians themselves want assurance that those with whom they practice possess and use current knowledge and skills, and are fully competent.

Should You Take the Jurisprudence Exam?

The jurisprudence exam or jurisprudence assessment module may help you fulfill a portion of your licensure renewal or continuing competence/continuing education (CC/CE) requirements.

• Contact your licensing authority

  Find out if the jurisprudence exam is available in your state.

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More Continuing Competence Resources

• Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development

  FSBPT’s Continuing Competence Committee has developed Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development with three primary actions to complete: 1. Jurisprudence & Ethics Assessment, 2. Practice/Work (Skills and Knowledge) Self-Inventory, and 3. A Healthy Practice Self-Inventory.

• Standards for Continuing Competence Activities

  View the standards adopted by FSBPT for the development and evaluation of high quality continuing competence activities.

• Continuing Competence Articles and Resources

  Explore relevant continuing competence problems and solutions.

• Continuing Competence FAQs

  Learn about the goals and purpose of FSBPT's continuing competence initiative.