If you obtained your occupational therapy license in the state Vermont, 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).
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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 Vermont occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant license here.
Step 2: Confirm the Vermont 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 Vermont:
Due at time of license renewal, every two years
How many hours are required?
- OTs/OTAs need 20 hours every two years
For first time renewals, 10 hours are required for each full year of licensure prior to renewal. No continuing education is required for those who have been licensed for less than a year.
Requirements:
- Education topics should directly relate to improving your occupational therapy practice
- You may be audited and required to show documentation proving completing of your continuing education, so hold on to your certificates of completion for at least 90 days after the renewal period you earned them in
Verify here: Vermont Office of Professional Regulation
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Here are the specific occupational therapy continuing education requirements for coursework in Vermont:
These were copied from the Administrative Rules for Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants, updated June 1, 2004.
3.2 CONTINUING COMPETENCE REQUIREMENTS
(a) “Continuing competence” means the direct involvement of an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant as a participant in activities promoting continuing competency in occupational therapy theory and practice. A total of 20 hours of continuing competence shall be earned in a two year renewal period. An occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant who is renewing his or her license for the first time after initial licensure is subject to a 10 hour continuing competence requirement per full year of licensure. If the license has been held for one year or less, no continuing competence is required. If held more than one year but less than two years, ten hours is required.
(b) Scope of qualified activities for maintaining continuing competence:
1) To be accepted by the Director, activities must be related to a licensee’s current or anticipated roles and responsibilities in occupational therapy and must directly or indirectly serve to protect the public by enhancing the licensee’s continuing competence.
2) Subject matter for qualified activities include research; theoretical or practical content related to the practice of occupational therapy; or the development, administration, supervision, and teaching of clinical practice or service delivery programs by occupational therapists or occupational therapy assistants.
(c) Qualified activities for maintaining continuing competence include:
1) Continuing education courses, which include attendance and participation as required at a live presentation such as a workshop, seminar, conference, or in-service educational program. May also include participation in other continuing education activities that require a formal assessment of learning. Examples include electronic or web-based courses, AOTA self-paced clinical courses or other formalized self study courses, AOTA continuing education articles and other substantially similar activities.
2) Academic coursework
3) Independent study
4) Mentorship
5) Fieldwork supervision
6) Professional writing
7) Presentation and instruction
8) Research
9) Grants
10) Professional meetings and activities
(d) See Appendix A of these rules for guidelines for professional development. This document outlines in further detail acceptable professional development activities, maximum hourly amounts and the documentation required for each activity.
Read more details about each category in the full chapter here.
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 20 of your Vermont 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, and you’ll earn a certificate of completion after you pass a short assessment!
As an AOTA approved provider, our courses are already pre-approved in the state of Vermont. If you are curious about whether a course outside of OT Potential will qualify toward your requirements, you can submit a request for preapproval from the OT board here.
Where can Vermont 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 “Vermont” to receive a 15% discount—and we’ll donate 15% of your order to VOTA.
👍 Price of OT Potential with your Vermont discount = $84.15 (Reg $99)
🎉 Donation amount to VOTA = $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 VOTA.
This is one of the cheapest ways to earn your required Vermont OT continuing education hours, 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 Vermont OT license renewal, just ask me the comments!
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