Section 13-303 - Qualifications - Physical therapists. - Maryland Statutes

§ 13-303. Qualifications - Physical therapists.
 

(a)  Educated in any state.- If an applicant for a physical therapy license has been educated in physical therapy in any state, the applicant shall have: 

(1) Graduated from a physical therapy program that, in the year of graduation, was approved by: 

(i) The American Medical Association; 

(ii) The American Physical Therapy Association; or 

(iii) The Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education; and 

(2) Completed satisfactorily the clinical training required by the physical therapy curriculum. 

(b)  Educated outside of any state.- If an applicant for a physical therapy license has been educated in physical therapy outside of any state, the applicant shall have graduated from a physical therapy program that in the year of graduation had educational requirements equivalent to a degree in physical therapy from a United States program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 610; 1981, ch. 8, § 2; 1990, ch. 6, § 11; 1998, chs. 767, 768; 2000, ch. 365; 2004, ch. 518; 2005, ch. 80.]