Continuing Education
Requirements
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Requirements
From the Colorado Veterinary Practice Act:
12-64-110 (4) (a) In order to obtain license renewal, each licensee, except as otherwise provided, shall be required to complete a board approved veterinary continuing educational program of at least thirty-two hours biennially, which courses may be taken at any time during the period of licensure. The board may, for good cause shown, prescribe the type and character of continuing education courses to be taken by any doctor of veterinary medicine in order to comply with the requirements of this article.
(b) The board shall have the authority to excuse licensees, as groups or individuals, from biennially continuing educational requirements for a good and sufficient reason.
(c) The board may employ qualified personnel to aid in the implementation of this section.
From the Rules and Regulations:
Board Rule 5. License Renewals
5.04 Continuing Education.
a. If a renewal date occurs during the year of original Colorado licensure, continuing education will not be required for the first renewal. If the renewal date occurs the year after original licensure, the registrant shall obtain 16 hours of continuing education prior to the biennial renewal.
b. Board approved veterinary education programs shall include, but not be limited to meetings of:
(1) American Veterinary Medical Association.
(2) American Animal Hospital Association.
(3) American Association of Equine Practitioners.
(4) American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(5) American Association of Swine Practitioners.
(6) American Association of Sheep and Goat Practitioners.
(7) Other allied groups of the AVMA holding meetings with scientific medical content.
(8) Regional Veterinary Medical Association Conferences.
(9) Local or state association meetings or university sponsored annual conferences for veterinarians with veterinary medicine medical content.(10) Board approved postgraduate studies, courses and seminars.
(11) Programs sponsored by recognized veterinary associations, schools of veterinary medicine, established educational groups, and industry sponsored educational programs. The sponsors must have a mechanism for recording and submitting attendance information to the Board.
(12) With Board approval, auto tutorial programs may be substituted.
(13) Subject to the final approval of the Board, the Secretary of the Board may rule in regard to the approval of other meetings or programs.
c. The Board may approve no more than six (6) hours of continuing education credit per licensing period for practice management based presentations including but not limited to leadership training, personnel management, client relations, communication training and integrated resource management principles.
Those presentations dealing with financial based subjects including but not limited to bookkeeping procedures, financial planning, retirement planning, and insurance programs will not be approved as acceptable continuing education.
No presentation that is primarily promotional
in nature regardless of subject material will be acceptable.
Criteria for Continuing Education Request Approval
Evaluation and approval of requested continuing education credit is the duty of the Secretary of the Colorado Board of Veterinary Medicine with final approval subject to the Board's decision. Such responsibility shall be carried out in accordance with and fulfillment of CRS 12-64-110 (2) (a) (4)(a)(b)(c) and 12-64-110.5 (1).
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