FL Biennium Requirements

FCPA

(1) Required Hours. For the purpose of renewing a license, a licensed Chiropractic Physician must demonstrate to the Board that he or she completed at least forty (40) contact classroom hours and a Certified Chiropractic Physicians Assistant must complete at least twenty-four (24) contact classroom hours of continuing chiropractic education during the past two (2) years. Only those contact classroom hours earned at Board approved continuing education courses or which comply with the provisions of this rule are acceptable. For purpose of this rule, the term “contact classroom hour” shall mean fifty (50) minutes of instruction offered through in-person courses or through online attendance continuing education courses complying with subsection (3).

(3) Online Attendance Continuing Education.

(a) Definitions. For purposes of this rule, the following definitions shall apply.

“Online attendance continuing education course” means a learning course presented through live, synchronous technology or through prerecorded video coupled with a means for course attendees to ask questions of the instructor(s) and receive responses in a timely manner. Such courses may be presented through video conferencing technologies or interactive computer based applications.

(b) Online Hours Allowed. A licensee may elect to obtain all continuing education hours through online attendance continuing education courses.

(c) No continuing education course may be repeated for credit within the same biennium.