Continued Competency Requirements for Biennial License Renewal by Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants
For the purpose of these regulations, the following definitions shall apply.
- (a) "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
- (b) "Licensee" means an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant licensed pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes, Chapter 376a.
- (c) "License renewal due date" means the last day of the month of July during an odd-numbered year in which licenses expire.
- (d) "Registration period" means the two-year period during which a license which has been renewed in accordance with Connecticut General Statutes, Section 20-74h, is current and valid and which two-year period terminates on the license renewal due date.
- (e) "Active practice" means the treatment in Connecticut of one or more patients by a licensee during any given registration period.
- (f) "Provider" means an individual health care provider or educator, organization, educational institution or other entity conducting a continued competency activity. Providers shall include but not necessarily be limited to: educational institutions accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education or its successor organization and its constituent organizations; and the Veterans Administration and Armed Forces when conducting programs at United States governmental facilities.
- (g) "Participant" means a licensee who completes a continued competency activity.
- (h) "Contact hour" means a minimum of 50 minutes of continued competency activity.
- (i) "Face-to-face instruction" means in-person, live instruction which a participant physically attends, either individually or as a part of a group of participants.
- (j) "Home study program" means continued competency activities clearly related to maintaining skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of occupational therapy that require successful completion of a proficiency examination, and may include distance learning and internet-based educational programs.
- (k) "Certificate of completion" means a document issued to a participant by a provider which certifies that said participant has successfully completed a continued competency activity.
(Effective August 22, 1988; Amended December 4, 2009)