To renew your license as a Physical Therapist in California, you must complete 30 continuing education hours every two years by the last day of your birth month. Physical Therapist Assistants in California must take 30 continuing education hours every two years as well. The California Physical Therapy continuing education requirements are listed in detail below.
Therapists must also complete 2 hours of courses on ethics, law, and regulation as well as 4 hours of basic life support in order to renew a PT license.
Continuing education providers such as MedBridge offer multiple California ethics, laws, regulations for physical therapists courses. Here are a couple of the example courses MedBridge offers that satisfies the California ethics CEU requirement:
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From the Physical Therapy Board of California (PTBC) website:
“Regulations require all physical therapists and physical therapist assistants renewing their license to complete a required number of hours of continuing competency activity.”
The number of hours you must complete varies, depending on how recently you obtained your license. See the charts below to determine how many CEU hours you’ll need to complete to renew your California PT or PTA license.
