If you obtained your occupational therapy license in the state of Minnesota, you will need to earn continuing education contact 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).
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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 Minnesota occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.
Step 2: Confirm the Minnesota OT continuing education requirements.
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. 😭)
But, to get you going here is the information I found, with links to where I found it.
Here are the basic OT/OTA CEU requirements in Minnesota:
Attestation due at time of license renewal, every two years
You are required to submit documentation of completed education only if selected for audit.
How many hours are required?
- OTs need 24 contact hours every two years
- OTAs need 18 contact hours every two years
If you’ve been licensed for less than two years at the time of renewal, you only need to complete a prorated number of contact hours. Anyone can see their requried hours on their online licensing account.
Requirements:
- Half of all required hours must relate directly to occupational therapy practice
- The remaining hours can be related to service delivery, general OT practice, and topics that increase your competence in your current role
- Some topics—and activities such as teaching, supervising, or research—are limited in the number of hours you can earn
- Hold on to your certificates of completion for at least two years after the renewal period you earned them in
Verify here: Minnesota Board of Occupational Therapy Practice
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Here are the specific occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Minnesota:
These were copied from the 2024 Minnesota Statutes, updated during the 2025 1st Special Session:
148.6443 CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS.
Subdivision 1. General requirements.
(a) A licensed occupational therapist must obtain a minimum of 24 contact hours of continuing education in the two-year licensure period. A licensed occupational therapy assistant must obtain a minimum of 18 contact hours of continuing education in the two-year licensure period. All continuing education coursework must be obtained between the effective and expiration dates of the license. Licensees who are issued licenses for a period of less than two years must obtain a prorated number of contact hours required for licensure renewal based on the number of months licensed during the two-year licensure period.
(b) Each licensee is responsible for financing the cost of the licensee’s continuing education activities.
Subd. 2. Standards for determining qualified continuing education activities.
(a) To be accepted by the board, activities must be related to a licensee’s current or anticipated roles and responsibilities as an occupational therapy practitioner and must directly or indirectly serve to protect the public by enhancing the licensee’s continuing competence.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision 3, paragraph (d), in order to qualify as a continuing education activity, the activity must:
(1) constitute an organized program of learning;
(2) reasonably be expected to advance the knowledge and skills of the occupational therapy practitioner;
(3) be conducted by a sponsor approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association or by individuals who have education, training, and experience by reason of which the individuals should be considered experts on the subject matter of the activity; and
(4) be presented by a sponsor who has a mechanism to verify participation and maintains attendance records for a minimum of three years.
§Subd. 3. Activities qualifying for continuing education contact hours.
(a) The activities in this subdivision qualify for continuing education contact hours if they meet all other requirements of this section.
(b) A minimum of one-half of the required contact hours must be directly related to occupational therapy practice. The remaining contact hours may be related to occupational therapy practice, the delivery of occupational therapy services, or to the practitioner’s current professional role.
(c) A licensee may obtain an unlimited number of contact hours in any two-year continuing education period through participation in the following:
(1) attendance at educational programs of annual conferences, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, in-service training, seminars, and symposiums;
(2) successful completion of college or university courses. The licensee must obtain a grade of at least a “C” or a pass in a pass/fail course in order to receive credit. One college credit equals six continuing education contact hours; or
(3) successful completion of courses that provide documentation that the course was completed and that meet the requirements in subdivision 2.
(d) A licensee may obtain a maximum of one-half of the required contact hours in any two-year continuing education period for:
(1) teaching continuing education or occupational therapy related courses…
(2) supervising occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant students…
(3) engaging in research activities…
(e) A licensee may obtain a maximum of two contact hours in any two-year continuing education period for continuing education activities in the following areas:
(1) personal skill topics: career burnout, communication skills, human relations, and similar topics;
(2) basic life support and CPR training; and
(3) participation for a minimum of one year on a professional committee or board.
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 of your Minnesota OT contact hours through OT Potential, as long as you meet the requirements outlined above.
Our CEU courses and monthly live webinars are AOTA approved, and you’ll earn a certificate of completion after you pass a short assessment!
Where can Minnesota 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 “Minnesota” to receive a 15% discount—and we’ll donate 15% of your order to MOTA.
👍 Price of OT Potential with your Minnesota discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
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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 Minnesota OT contact hours, and you can feel good doing it because you are giving back to your state association ❤️.
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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 Minnesota OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!
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