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Continuing Competence

Maintain your professional competence

You want to assure your patients, your licensing board and, most importantly, yourself that you’re competent. FSBPT offers resources to help you:

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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.

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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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Want to become licensed in another state?

We'll help guide you through the process. Click here to learn how.

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