21 NCAC 48G .0107         STANDARDS FOR CONTINUING COMPETENCE ACTIVITIES

The Board shall approve continuing competence activities which meet the following standards and provisions:

(1)           They have intellectual or practical content based on best available scientific evidence and the primary objective is to increase the participant's professional competence and proficiency as a licensee;

(2)           They constitute learning experiences dealing with matters directly related to the practice of physical therapy or patient welfare;

(3)           Live instruction, mechanically or electronically recorded, reproduced or transmitted material, other electronic media, or a computer website accessed via the Internet are used;

(4)           Continuing competence materials are prepared, and activities conducted, by an individual or group qualified by practical or academic experience in a setting physically suitable to the educational activity of the program or clinical experience and, when appropriate, equipped with suitable writing surfaces or sufficient space for taking notes;

(5)           Written materials are distributed to all attendees at or before the time a course is presented. These may include scientific materials based on written references printed from a computer presentation, computer website, or other electronic media. A written agenda, objectives or outline for a presentation satisfies this requirement when written reference materials are not suitable or readily available for a particular subject;

(6)           The provider remits costs as required by Rule .0112 of this Subchapter and keeps and maintains attendance records of each continuing competence experience sponsored by it in North Carolina; and

(7)           For activities that are directed to more than one discipline, or are directed primarily to another health care discipline, the Board is satisfied that the content of the activity would enhance physical therapy skills or aid in the practice of physical therapy.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 90-270.92;

Eff. January 1, 2009;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. May 1, 2018.