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BCIA-PMDB Recertification - Continuing Education Hours
Summary of Requirements
Candidates for recertification must complete 36 hours of continuing education from one or more of the Blueprint areas specific to this certification. All continuing education hours must be related to the blueprint, relevant to biofeedback and/or the disorder you may be treating with the majority of your hours being biofeedback specific.
New in 2010
- 3 hours of the required 36 must be related to ethics and professional standards
- the 20 hours of elective continuing education are no longer required; however we do encourage you to continue to read and study good materials that are outside of the accredited work.
Accredited course work is described as follows:
College Courses - Registered attendance in an undergraduate or graduate course approved and offered through a regionally accredited academic institution. The course work is counted as classroom time.
Professional Instruction –Teaching at a regionally accredited academic institution or at a nationally recognized, accredited professional venue is counted as class time plus two hours of preparation time are allowed for each hour of instruction time.
Professional Organization Courses - Continuing education courses offered through a professional organization or private agency. Such courses must be approved through an accrediting agency (e.g., AMA, ANA, APA, APTA, AOTA, etc.). Documentation should indicate the accrediting agency.
Professional Preparation - Authorship of a peer-reviewed document (journal, manuscript, written or edited textbook chapter, platform or poster presentation critiqued or otherwise reviewed by formally designated professional colleagues). Credit for publications is allowed as follows:
Research - Per special review on an individual basis.
Chapter/State Meetings – Relevant hours taken at annual professional meetings or professional chapter/state society meetings apply toward recertification.
Tapes - Used in a course through a regionally accredited educational institution or approved continuing education qualify.
Distance Education/Home Study Courses - Courses relevant to the Blueprint offered by a regionally accredited university, the national body of your profession, or a BCIA accredited training program.
Patent - Approved patents within a Blueprint area - 10 hours.
Mentoring of Candidates - BCIA approved mentors should submit candidate’s name, address and phone number. Upon verification, BCIA allows five continuing education hours for each candidate if a minimum of 15 hours mentoring was provided. Attendance at the BCIA Mentor’s Workshop is worth 2 hours of continuing education.
Exam Item Construction - One-half hour of accredited continuing education will be given for reading an article, documented published book or study from a peer reviewed journal and preparing an examination question. The examination item should be comprised of a question, correct answer and three distracters (incorrect answers), and sourced from the Suggested Reading List. A maximum of 20 hours per four-year certification period is allowed (i.e., 40 questions maximum). Test question forms are available from BCIA upon request or on the website at bcia.org.
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