Board denies medical-errors continuing-education course, approves provider’s laws-and-rules course; AAMFT supervisor refresher denied

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling on the record denied a medical‑errors continuing‑education (CE) application and approved a separate four‑hour laws‑and‑rules CE course submitted by the same provider.

The board’s reviewer urged denial of the medical‑errors course, saying it presented ‘‘too much information for a two‑hour offering,’’ included slide decks that amounted to about 160 slides for the allotted time and cited sources that did not support the statistics presented. The reviewer also objected to dated clinical language in the course materials, saying a vignette described a ‘‘successful suicide attempt,’’ language the reviewer called inappropriate in current practice.

Dr. Desmaine Joseph, the course submitter, told the board he uses didactic lectures and real‑life scenarios to make law and patient‑safety material practical for…