Maryland OT CEU Requirements & Discounts!

If you obtained your occupational therapy license in Maryland, you will need to earn continuing education hours at required intervals in order to maintain your license. To help, I’m going to walk you through the steps I take to maintain my own occupational therapy license (and easily earn CEUs).

Click here to jump straight to the Maryland OT CEU discounts!

Step 1: Look up your OT/OTA license.

To begin the process, I always double-check that my license is displaying correctly. You can look up your Maryland occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.

Step 2: Confirm the Maryland OT continuing competency requirements (CCR). 

It’s always good to double check for any updates to your 2025 licensing cycle. (One year, I completed ALL of my state of Nebraska requirements only to find out that they were waived due to COVID. 😭)

To get you going here is the information I found, with links to where I found it.

Here are the basic OT/OTA Continuing Competence Requirements (CCR) in Maryland:

• Attestation of completion due at time of license renewal.
  • Licensees originially licensed in even-numbered years renew by June 30th of even years.
  • Licensees originially licensed in odd-numbered years renew by June 30th of odd years.
  • No continuing education is required for therapists in their first year of licensure.

How many hours are required?

• OTs/OTAs need 24 contact hours every two years
• Alternatively, maintaining NBCOT certification fulfills Maryland CCR requirements for OT professionals!

Requirements:

• Minimum of 16 contact hours must be related to occupational therapy principles and procedures (i.e. directly applicable to the delivery of OT)
• Maximum of 8 contact hours can be earned through occupational therapy role-related activities (i.e. administration and management, billing and regulatory issues)

You may be audited and asked to submit proof of CEU completion, so hold on to your course certificates for at least 4 years after you renew.

Verify here: Maryland Department of Health Board of Occupational Therapy Practice

Discounts
Get a 15% discount on OT Potential by using the promo code: Maryland
(We’ll also give 15% of that sale to the Maryland OT Association.)

Here are the specific occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Maryland:

These were copied from the Maryland Administrative Code, updated 2/29/2016.

Step 3: Earn your CEU hours (discounts below)!

Ok, now that you know your requirements, it is time to start earning those CEUs! There are of course a lot of options out there, but we hope you consider checking out the courses offered by OT Potential.

Do OT Potential courses count toward the continuing education required to renew my license?

Yes! You can easily earn all 24 of your Maryland OT continuing education hours through OT Potential, as long as you meet the requirements outlined above.

Our CEU courses and monthly live webinars are AOTA approved (pre-approved by the MD OT Board), and you’ll earn a certificate of completion after you pass a short assessment!

Where can Maryland OT professionals get the best deals on CEUs?

At OT Potential, our courses are all built around helping you get new evidence into practice.

But, what good is evidence-based practice, if you are not reimbursed appropriately for it? Our local associations do SUCH important advocacy work, when it comes to reimbursement and scope of practice. That’s why we’ve made it part of our mission to support these associations.

So, we have this win-win proposition for you. Join OT Potential using the promo code “Maryland” to receive a 15% discount—and we’ll donate 15% of your order to MOTA.

👍 Price of OT Potential with your Maryland discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
🎉 Donation amount to MOTA = $12.62

And, the best part is if you decide to renew, it will be at your discounted price. AND, we’ll make another donation to MOTA.

This is one of the cheapest ways to earn your required Maryland OT continuing education, and you can feel good doing it because you are giving back to your state association ❤️.

(If OT Potential is not right for you, I am also a long-time fan of MedBridge, and through OT Potential, you can snag a MedBridge Promo Code for 40% off.)

Step 4: Renew your license. 🎉

Ok, now it’s time for the big moment.

You can renew your license online.

Conclusion

Hopefully, you found this post helpful!

As you can tell, I am a continuing education nerd 🤓, so if you have any other questions about continuing education and your Maryland OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!