Need for State Licensure

State licensure for occupational therapists.

Thzs is the first in a serzes of artzcles addressing critical issues facing the profession. Those issues are presented to inform members of their complexity and to provide members with specific actions they can take to support the continued strengthemng of the role of occupational therapy in health and educatzon. Thzs article was prepared by Jane D. Davy, OTR, and Mary Peters, M.S., OTR, Govern...

State-Based Licensure of Telemedicine: The Need for Uniformity but Not a National Scheme

Making the Case for Uniformity in Professional State Licensure Requirements

Telehealth, the use of communication and information technologies to deliver health services, was initially envisioned as a way for persons in rural or remote settings to receive otherwise unavailable healthcare services. Now, in addition to overcoming personnel shortages for underserved populations, telehealth shows promise in meeting the needs of a constantly mobile U.S. society and workforce...

Licensure requirements for out-of-state forensic examinations.

Forensic clinicians, including psychiatrists, are sometimes asked to perform solely forensic (e.g., court- or litigation-related) assessments or interviews outside states in which they are licensed. A short survey was sent to all U.S. state medical licensing agencies asking whether or not a psychiatrist licensed in another state must also be licensed in the surveyed state before performing a pu...

Impact of gender on dental state licensure examination performance.

The purpose of this study was to identify performance differences in subgroups of dental students during dental school and on state dental licensure examinations. One of the specific aims was to determine if gender is predictive of performance in dental school and on state licensure examinations. The study consisted of a retrospective analysis of 416 graduates (136 females and 280 males) from t...