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Licensee urges board to publish workforce gap data and ease foreign-educated clinical instructor requirement
Summary
A licensee asked the board to prepare workforce-supply data for California and to reconsider requiring foreign-educated supervised clinicians to secure APTA CCIP Level 1 certified clinical instructors, a standard not required for U.S. graduates.
During the June 26 public-comment period, Elise Sherbina Amon, a licensee and director of clinical education at a DPT program, asked the Physical Therapy Board of California to prepare a presentation on workforce data identifying where services are lacking in the state and to reconsider a requirement that foreign-educated supervised clinicians secure clinical instructors with APTA CCIP Level 1 certification.
Amon said workforce data would help assess geographic or service-area shortages and tools to address them. She also said that requiring a clinical instructor with APTA CCIP Level 1 certification for foreign-educated clinicians creates a potential barrier that U.S. graduates do not face, and she asked the board to “consider revisiting” that requirement.
Board staff noted the request; no formal action was taken at the meeting. The item was offered for consideration as a future meeting agenda topic.
