(1) Professional Development Hours of credit
for qualifying courses successfully completed which offer semester hour,
quarter hour, or CEU credit are as specified above. All other professional
continuing education activities will be credited one (1) PDH for each contact
hour with the following exceptions:
(a)
Monitoring of university or college courses will be credited at one-third (1/3)
the above-stated conversion table.
(b) Teaching or instructing qualifying
courses or seminars will be credited at twice the PDHs earned by a
participating student and may be claimed for credit only once.
(c) Authorship of papers, articles, or books
cannot be claimed until actually published. A maximum of ten (10) PDHs per
biennium may be claimed for each published peer-reviewed paper, article, or
book. A maximum of five (5) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for each published
paper, article, or book that is not peer-reviewed.
(d) Correspondence course PDHs may be
considered acceptable to the Board, but the registrant shall submit, upon
request, supporting documentation to demonstrate high quality course
content.
(e) A maximum of eight (8)
PDHs per biennium may be claimed for attendance at Board meetings and
professional society legislative events, and active participation in
technical/professional societies or organizations, or technical or professional
public boards, as an officer or committee member.
(f) A maximum of four (4) PDHs per biennium
may be claimed for active participation in educational outreach activities
involving K-12 or higher education students.
(g) A maximum of ten (10) PDHs per biennium
may be claimed for each patent.
(h)
A maximum of five (5) PDHs per biennium may be claimed for writing accepted
licensing examination items.
(2) PDHs may be acquired at any location. If
the continuing education provider prescribes a customary time for completion of
such an activity, then such prescribed time shall, unless the Board finds the
prescribed time to be unreasonable, be accepted as the registrant's time for
PDH purposes irrespective of actual time spent on the activity.
