Why is continuing competence so important?

Maintaining your competence is critical to your career, the physical therapy profession and the public. Here's why:

• 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.

Plan for, track and manage your competence

aPTitude^®. Use our free continuing competence online management system to search for, find and keep track of activities that meet your specific and unique needs.

Assess your current competence

oPTion^®. Use oPTion to help assess your current competence and plan for continuing competence activities. Register for oPTion.

Should you take the jurisprudence exam?

The jurisprudence exam 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.

• Register to take the exam

  Licensees in Florida and Nebraska* may elect to take an FSBPT administered jurisprudence exam for purposes of meeting a portion of their licensure renewal or CC/CE requirements.

  *Nebraska does not pre-approve continuing education programs but may accept as continuing education for renewal of a license or certificate, or reinstatement of a license or certificate, the completion of the jurisprudence exam. Five (5) hours of continuing education will be awarded for passing the jurisprudence exam with a scaled score that is greater than or equal to 600.

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More continuing competence resources

• Continuing competence model

  There are many ways for licensees to maintain and acquire skills other than attending a continuing education course. This model offers requirements for you to consider implementing as part of your licensure renewal process.

• Standards for continuing competence activities

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

• Continuing competence discussion paper

  Read about continuing competence and the roles and responsibilities of FSBPT and APTA .

• 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.