CE Requirements

COMAR 10.38.08 – Continuing Education Professional Development Criteria

CE activities meeting the criteria for continuing education requirements for the practice of physical therapy may include:

• Postgraduate academic course work in physical therapy taken at an accredited college or university, which may earn 10 CE hours per course credit; 
• Attendance at Board-approved or APTA-approved continuing education, which may earn 1 CE hour for every approved hour;
• Presentation of continuing education, which may earn 2 CE hours for every hour of presentation with presentations of the same subject matter receiving CE hours only once in a renewal period;
• Authoring, co-authoring, or editing of a book, book chapter, or peer- reviewed journal article, which may earn 30 CE hours with proof accompanying the request for approval;
• Authoring an abstract, which may earn 10 CE hours;
• Completion of an approved self-directed study course, which may earn 1 CE hour per interactive hour;
• Completion of an approved home study course, which may earn 1 CE hour per interactive hour;
• Completion of continuing education relevant to workplace and community service contributions, and leadership relevant to the development of personal and professional competence, which may earn 1 CE hour only once in a renewal period;
• Supervision of physical therapists or physical therapist assistant students in a clinical rotation, which may earn 10 CE hours only once in a renewal period (1 CE hour equals 40 hours of supervision); or
• Research, which may earn 10 CE hours

*  The Board of Examiners states that it will be the responsibility of the licensee to provide documented evidence to validate the number of contact hours earned from one of the items above.