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Pre-Health Professional Development (HLTH 3300)
The University of Texas at Dallas
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10/18 Licensure Boards ● You have clinical training → also nobody talks about licensure → you graduate ● Your new goal is to get license because you can’t get a job or work without it ○ All documentation is needed ○ If the professor/clinician dies, it delays you getting your license ● You don’t have to practice and go to the same school in the state ○ You can go to school in OK but you can practice in TX if you take the license test in TX. ○ YOU YOURSELF have to contact the state’s licensure board in the state that you want to practice in. ○ You have to say “I’m a new graduate, this will be the first time taking my test and applying for licensure.” because there’s different applications if you’ve taken it before. ● Clinical training → application to become licensed for the first time. ● You have to graduate from an accredited school, because you can’t get a license from going to an unaccredited school. ● Many fields want a passport picture along with your application and what you did, dates, people who observed you, # of hours you’re in clinical training, names and addresses, everyone who supervised you. ● Once you get the application, you have to request a transcript: ○ Immediately get the application and contact board so you can get working sooner. ● 2... Licensure board → looks for correct type of supervisors, hours, neatness, etc. on the application ● 3... you’ll get a letter: ○ If you are missing information you’ll get a phone call. ○ If approved, you are now able to sit for the exam. ■ They’ll give you 2-3 dates, you choose one then call them up, and they register for you. Then they’ll give you the place to take the exam. ● The Board for Texas is in Austin ■ You’ll have to bring a Drivers License, passport, or some form of federal or state Identification. The EXAM ● The exam covers everything from Day 1 of professional health school to the end and can cost $500 - $800 (directions are given over the phone about how to pay). ● The exam is all day. ● You don’t have an infinite number of tries (sometimes you only get 2-3 in a lifetime). ● You can get your scores right then or you can wait for it to be mailed to you in 5 days. ● It is multiple choice and taken on the computer. ● Some fields use the national board exams and others will use the state exam. ○ Texas has the hardest tests in the United States :) ● The pass/fail rate is 40/60 or 50/
If you fail the first time ● You are now on the path of remediation... you have to take required classes in order to take the exam the second time: ○ They know who didn’t pass the first time. ○ They send you a remediation packet. ■ Sometimes you don’t have to take a class, it’s just a time-based thing; for this, you just fill out the “I failed the 1st time” application; if you do have to take classes you have to apply as a grad student, take and pay for the courses and send the transcript (B’s, at least) When you pass ● The original license is huge and is the official one that you will need as proof ● Portability of your license → you have the license but want to practice in another state; you have to talk to the state’s board (for example, Arizona) and tell them you need the “portability license app”: ○ The Arizona board will contact the Texas board about your previous application (takes about 90 days)
● You’re licensed by the board, which exists to protect the public from you. ○ Professional associations are the ones that help us. ○ DON’T CALL THE BOARD WITH ANY PROBLEMS OR ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE. ● Number of people on the board depends on how many licensees are in that state (6- usually). ● Ex: if the board has 6 people, 2 will have the same kind of license, 2 will have a different kind of license (ex. Nurse or Physical therapist), 2 will be people from the general public (not politicians, just anyone in general). ○ You can apply to be on the board. ○ They aren’t paid, which is why there are a lot more retired people there. ○ Only requirement to be on the board as a general member is that you don’t fit in the other two categories. ● All the boards meet 4 times a year (dental, medical, etc.) in a state. ● Board pays for member trips to meetings, hotel stay, food, for these meetings. ● The Texas medical board is the same board for MDs and DOs. ● The Texas medical board has one attorney as part of the two general members. ● The boards monitor your professional life and personal behavior. ○ Every time they meet, they review complaints (from patients and employers), the complaints ARE NOT anonymous. ○ They have to follow up on all of the complaints, then they contact the licensee (sometimes it’s due to relationships, but they screen for things like that; for example, like an ex who wants to get back at them). ○ They determine how to pursue or if a complaint is serious. ○ If they contact you by letter, you have to come to the meeting: ■ You have to take time off and take the time to be there. ■ You sit at a table and they sit surrounding you.
● Before you’re hired, they check your status to see if you have a DA via the Licensure Board. ○ “Do we want to be associated with this person?” ←they ask themselves this ● Many times, they’ll say “must have an unrestricted license” at the bottom of applicant; so if you have a DA, then don’t bother applying. CONTINUING EDUCATION ● “You have to take a certain number of CEUs in (a specific section) within (period of time). ● Fines start at $1000 (they also put a deadline for payment). ● You can do a combination of CEUs and a fine. ● Some DAs don’t stay on a license forever. ○ The board determines when to renew the license. ● The board chooses how many CEUs you need in those two years (not medical school and not professional associations); all doctors get this number and all patients can get a different number. ● The board can also change the number of CEUs in certain areas (i., ethics). ● CEUs never go down AND can vary in different states. ● If you practice in two different states, you have to do the CEUS for both states. ● 2 months before it’s due, you’ll get a pack regarding CEUS: ○ Some will want it notarized. ● Also determine what you pay, payment for late fee (even for a day): ○ Employers watch for the expiration date because they’ll be fined if they allow an expired doctor practice. ● Professional associations → give the opportunity to give CEUS.
Licensure Boards
Course: Pre-Health Professional Development (HLTH 3300)
University: The University of Texas at Dallas
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