If you obtained your occupational therapy license in the state of Pennsylvania, you will need to earn continuing education units 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 Pennsylvania occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.
Step 2: Confirm the Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania:
Due on June 30th of odd years
How many hours are required?
- OTs/OTAs need 24 hours
Topics Required:
- 2 hours must be in Act 31 Mandated Child Abuse Reporter Training from an approved provider.
Verify here: Pennsylvania State Board of Occupational Therapy Education and Licensure
Here are the occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Pennsylvania:
These were copied from the Pennsylvania Code Chapter 42.
§ 42.55. Acceptable continued competency activities.
(a) Irrespective of the provider, contact hours will only be awarded for continued competency activities that are relevant to the practice of occupational therapy including direct care, management, education and research. Contact hours will not be awarded for activities related to marketing, office management, financial gain or self-promotion.
(b) The following activities are acceptable so long as the specific activity complies with subsection (a):
(1) Educational courses.
(i) For continuing education courses, contact hours equal the number of instructional hours.
(ii) For academic courses, one credit equals 15 contact hours
(iii) Instead of the documentation required under § 42.57(a) (relating to documentation and reporting of continued competency activities), acceptable documentation of educational courses consists of an official transcript or certificate of completion indicating the name and date of the course and a description of the course from the school catalog or brochure.
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 earn 22 of your continuing education hours through OT Potential. (We do not currently offer child abuse reporter training.)
Where can Pennsylvania 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 “Pennsylvania” to receive a 15% discount—and we’ll donate 15% of your order to POTA.
👍 Price of OT Potential with your Pennsylvania discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
🎉 Donation amount to POTA = $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 POTA.
This is one of the cheapest ways to earn all of your required Pennsylvania OT CEUs, 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 Pennsylvania OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!
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2 replies on “Pennsylvania OT CEU Requirements & Discounts!”
Does the 15% off discount work on renewal of membership? Does the promo code have an expiration date?
Yes, Molly! It does work on renewal! You can enter it on your account here: https://otpotentialclub.memberful.com/account/subscriptions/
Honestly, I’m not sure when we will take it down. We definitely want to figure out the best mechanism to keep giving back to states! I would go ahead and enter it on your account now, and then it should still work when your renewal goes through!