(1) An applicant
who has not graduated from a school of massage therapy or bodywork therapy
approved by the department of safety and professional services shall submit an
official transcript or other official documentation showing dates and total
classroom hours attended and a description of the curriculum completed
establishing that the applicant has completed an approved training
program.
(2) Credit may be granted
for an approved training program regardless of when the program was
completed.
(4) In addition to
satisfying the requirements of sub. (5), an approved training program shall be
one of the following:
(a) An associate degree
program, or a technical diploma program in massage therapy or bodywork therapy
offered by a technical college established pursuant to s.
38.02,
Stats.
(b) A course of instruction
in massage therapy or bodywork therapy offered by a school that, at the time of
the applicant's graduation, has approval or accreditation that is in good
standing from one of the following:
1. An
accrediting agency under s.
MTBT 1.02(1)
(a) whose recognition by the United States
department of education is current.
Note: A list of recognized accrediting agencies is
available from the United States Department of Education's website at
www.ed.gov.
2. An accrediting agency under s.
MTBT 1.02(1)
(b) that is located in the same state or
territory in which the school is located and whose criteria for approval of
schools is substantially equivalent, as determined by the board, to the
criteria under s.
SPS 404.04.
(5) An approved training program shall
consist of a minimum of 600 classroom hours of study and shall include the
following subject areas:
(a) One hundred
twenty-five classroom hours in anatomy, physiology, pathology, and
kinesiology.
(b) Fifty classroom
hours in business, law and ethics, which shall include at least 6 classroom
hours in the laws of this state and rules of the board relating to the practice
of massage therapy or bodywork therapy required by s.
MTBT 2.01(3)
(b).
(c) Three hundred classroom hours in massage
therapy or bodywork therapy theory, technique, and practice, which shall
include 100 classroom hours of supervised hands-on practice.
(d) Twenty classroom hours in student
clinic.
(e) Five classroom hours in
adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation and standard first aid. The requirement of
this paragraph may be alternatively satisfied as provided under s.
MTBT 2.01(3)
(j).
(f) One hundred classroom hours in additional
massage therapy or bodywork therapy course offerings meeting the objectives of
the course of instruction.
