How many credit hours of continuing education are needed for this licensing period?
A maximum of twenty-four (24) hours of Florida Board of Massage Therapy approved continuing education must be obtained by all licensed massage therapists during the biennium ending August 31, 2011. As part of the 24 hour total, massage therapists must take the following required mandatory courses: Prevention of Medical Errors (2 hours), Professional Ethics (2 hours), Laws and Rules of Massage Therapy (2 hours) and a course in HIV/AIDS (no set hours, 1 hour minimum). IMPORTANT RULE CHANGE: The Board CE rule reads: “At least 12 C.E. hours of the 24 total shall be relevant to and focus on massage therapy techniques, which may include history of massage therapy, human anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and/or pathology.” The Board amended this rule to add the following sentence after the above language: “As of September 1, 2007, the 12 continuing education hours shall be taken via live classroom instruction, which includes hands-on instruction or demonstration, 6 hours of which may be perfo
