§ 1398.26.1. Satisfactory Documentary Evidence of Equivalent Degree for Licensure as a Physical Therapist or Physical Therapist Assistant.

This section is only applicable to those applicants who are graduates of non-accredited physical therapy educational programs and applying for licensure on or after the effective date of this regulation. For the purposes of determining educational equivalency, the credential evaluation services will evaluate foreign educational credentials based on the corresponding Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy's Coursework Evaluation Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapists (CWT) or, if applying for physical therapist assistant license, the Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapist Assistants (PTA Tool 2007). For the purpose of this regulation, the six following publications are incorporated by reference: (1) FSBPT Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapists Who Graduated before 1978 - CWT 1 (2004), (2) FSBPT Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapists Who Graduated From 1978 to 1991 - CWT 2 (2004), (3) FSBPT Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapists Who Graduated From 1992 to 1997 - CWT 3 (2004), (4) FSBPT Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapists Who Graduated From 1998 to June 30, 2009 - CWT 4 (2004), (5) FSBPT Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapists Who Graduated after June 30, 2009 - CWT 5 (2004) (Rev. 2009-07), (6) Coursework Tool For Foreign Educated Physical Therapist Assistants - PTA Tool 2007 (2004).

HISTORY

1. New section filed 7-5-2005; operative 8-4-2005 (Register 2005, No. 27).

2. Amendment of section heading and section filed 9-29-2011; operative 10-29-2011 (Register 2011, No. 39).

Note

Note: Authority cited: Section 2615, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 2650 and 2653, Business and Professions Code.