Re: US Politics -- O&P licensing
Lance Hoxie
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Re: US Politics -- O&P licensing
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Lance Hoxie
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9/22/1999
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Dear Mr. Hendricks:
I am using your email to respond to the general population of certifees who subscribe to the OANDP LIST serve concerning use of ABC's certification credential.
As you may know, the ABC owns exclusive rights to the terms certified orthotist, certified prosthetist, certified prosthetist/orthotist and their corresponding initials: CO, CP, CPO. Such exclusivity has been established through our common law usage under federal trade mark laws/rules. This ownership has also been supported by a federal court-approved settlement (1986/87) between the ABC and BOC that prohibits the BOC from using these terms or confusingly similar terms in their certification program.
In order to protect our exclusivity rights, the ABC has developed policies and procedures governing use of the credential (terms and their corresponding initials). You will appreciate our need to do this since trademark matters related to the use of the terms kleenex, and xerox worked to the detriment of those companies when common usage of those terms established their generic intent.
Thus, the ABC permits usage of its terms and related initials only accordingly (please note that periods may or may not be used):
CO - Certified Orthotist
CP - Certified Prosthetist
CPO - Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist
Certain delimiters are also permitted with these initials (including the use of the parentheses):
(E) - Designating Emeritus status
(L) - Designating an approved Leave of Absence from Active Certification
(r) - Designating Retired Status
(c) - Designating Canadian Certification
No other initials, terms, or delimiters are permitted by the ABC. For example, a licensed practitioner may not combine his/her licensure status with his/her certification status in any undivided combination of initials. Therefore, initials such as LCO, LCP, LCPO, COL, CPL, CPOL, or other combinations are not permitted. If an ABC practitioner wishes to identify his/her licensure status, then he/she must use terms/initials which are separated from the ABC's terms and initials (eg. LP, LO, LPO). In the case of both certification and licensure, then the initials should be separated by a comma (,.) For example, a licensed ABC prosthetist/orthotist would use the initials: CPO, LPO; or LPO, CPO.
With respect to your questions concerning reporting of unlicensed practitioners and displays of your licensure status, you will need to abide by the regulations administered by your state. However, I would point out that if an ABC-certifee is in violation of a state law, he/she may be subject to ABC professional discipline sanctions as stipulated in the ABC Canons of Ethical Conduct.
I hope this has been helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email or telephone (703/836-7114).
Sincerely,
Lance Hoxie
Executive Director
American Board for Certification
In Orthotics and Prosthetics, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: <Email Address Redacted> [SMTP: <Email Address Redacted> ]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 9:08 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: US Politics -- O&P licensing
I recently became licensed in O&P in Florida. I have three questions. The
first applies equally to Florida, Texas, or any other state. The next two
apply only to Florida.
1) What letters should I use after my name? I am a CPO.
I've seen practitioners who only use LPO, which is OK, but there are
licensed people were grandfathered in who don't have ABC credentials. I
earned those credentials and hate to abandon them.
I've seen practitioners who use CPO, LPO or LPO, CPO. This seems a
little lengthy and repetitive.
I think I'd like to use CLPO, but I haven't seen anyone else doing so.
Comments?
2) The actual license says DISPLAY AS REQUIRED BY LAW. What is the law?
Like the occupational license, must it be displayed where you practice?
If so, what if a practitioner practices in more than one location? Does
he or she need to obtain duplicates?
3) I attended an excellent and very informative lecture by Morris Gallo in
Captiva last year in which he said that it is the obligation, not merely the
right, of a licensed practitioner to blow the whistle on unlicensed people
who are practicing, and further, that if a licensed practitioner allows other
people in his or her employ to practice without a license, the licensed
practitioner can lost his or her license.
Is this true? (I may have gotten it wrong.) If it is true, what about a
licensed non-owner who works with unlicensed people who treat patients. Do
they have an obligation (with the potential penalty of losing their license)
of turning in their co-workers? This, in some cases, could cost them their
job!
I have to say, I'm not a big fan of the idea of forced whisteblowing. Is
this really part of the Florida licensure law?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses.
David Hendricks, CPO, LPO, CLPO, LCPO, and just you wait until next month
when I add FAAOP to that! :-)
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********************
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Prosthetics.
Public commercial postings are forbidden. Responses to inquiries of a
commercial nature should not be sent to the entire oandp-l list. Responses
should be collected and reposted by the person asking the question.
Send a message to the list by sending to: <Email Address Redacted> To unsubscribe,
send a message to: <Email Address Redacted> with the words UNSUB OANDP-L in the body of the
message. All postings related to US-politics must use a subject line
starting with US-Politics:
Any questions should be directed to Paul E. Prusakowski, CPO at
<Email Address Redacted>
I am using your email to respond to the general population of certifees who subscribe to the OANDP LIST serve concerning use of ABC's certification credential.
As you may know, the ABC owns exclusive rights to the terms certified orthotist, certified prosthetist, certified prosthetist/orthotist and their corresponding initials: CO, CP, CPO. Such exclusivity has been established through our common law usage under federal trade mark laws/rules. This ownership has also been supported by a federal court-approved settlement (1986/87) between the ABC and BOC that prohibits the BOC from using these terms or confusingly similar terms in their certification program.
In order to protect our exclusivity rights, the ABC has developed policies and procedures governing use of the credential (terms and their corresponding initials). You will appreciate our need to do this since trademark matters related to the use of the terms kleenex, and xerox worked to the detriment of those companies when common usage of those terms established their generic intent.
Thus, the ABC permits usage of its terms and related initials only accordingly (please note that periods may or may not be used):
CO - Certified Orthotist
CP - Certified Prosthetist
CPO - Certified Prosthetist/Orthotist
Certain delimiters are also permitted with these initials (including the use of the parentheses):
(E) - Designating Emeritus status
(L) - Designating an approved Leave of Absence from Active Certification
(r) - Designating Retired Status
(c) - Designating Canadian Certification
No other initials, terms, or delimiters are permitted by the ABC. For example, a licensed practitioner may not combine his/her licensure status with his/her certification status in any undivided combination of initials. Therefore, initials such as LCO, LCP, LCPO, COL, CPL, CPOL, or other combinations are not permitted. If an ABC practitioner wishes to identify his/her licensure status, then he/she must use terms/initials which are separated from the ABC's terms and initials (eg. LP, LO, LPO). In the case of both certification and licensure, then the initials should be separated by a comma (,.) For example, a licensed ABC prosthetist/orthotist would use the initials: CPO, LPO; or LPO, CPO.
With respect to your questions concerning reporting of unlicensed practitioners and displays of your licensure status, you will need to abide by the regulations administered by your state. However, I would point out that if an ABC-certifee is in violation of a state law, he/she may be subject to ABC professional discipline sanctions as stipulated in the ABC Canons of Ethical Conduct.
I hope this has been helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email or telephone (703/836-7114).
Sincerely,
Lance Hoxie
Executive Director
American Board for Certification
In Orthotics and Prosthetics, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: <Email Address Redacted> [SMTP: <Email Address Redacted> ]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 9:08 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: US Politics -- O&P licensing
I recently became licensed in O&P in Florida. I have three questions. The
first applies equally to Florida, Texas, or any other state. The next two
apply only to Florida.
1) What letters should I use after my name? I am a CPO.
I've seen practitioners who only use LPO, which is OK, but there are
licensed people were grandfathered in who don't have ABC credentials. I
earned those credentials and hate to abandon them.
I've seen practitioners who use CPO, LPO or LPO, CPO. This seems a
little lengthy and repetitive.
I think I'd like to use CLPO, but I haven't seen anyone else doing so.
Comments?
2) The actual license says DISPLAY AS REQUIRED BY LAW. What is the law?
Like the occupational license, must it be displayed where you practice?
If so, what if a practitioner practices in more than one location? Does
he or she need to obtain duplicates?
3) I attended an excellent and very informative lecture by Morris Gallo in
Captiva last year in which he said that it is the obligation, not merely the
right, of a licensed practitioner to blow the whistle on unlicensed people
who are practicing, and further, that if a licensed practitioner allows other
people in his or her employ to practice without a license, the licensed
practitioner can lost his or her license.
Is this true? (I may have gotten it wrong.) If it is true, what about a
licensed non-owner who works with unlicensed people who treat patients. Do
they have an obligation (with the potential penalty of losing their license)
of turning in their co-workers? This, in some cases, could cost them their
job!
I have to say, I'm not a big fan of the idea of forced whisteblowing. Is
this really part of the Florida licensure law?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses.
David Hendricks, CPO, LPO, CLPO, LCPO, and just you wait until next month
when I add FAAOP to that! :-)
********************
OANDP-L is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Orthotics and
Prosthetics.
Public commercial postings are forbidden. Responses to inquiries of a
commercial nature should not be sent to the entire oandp-l list. Responses
should be collected and reposted by the person asking the question.
Send a message to the list by sending to: <Email Address Redacted> To unsubscribe,
send a message to: <Email Address Redacted> with the words UNSUB OANDP-L in the body of the
message. All postings related to US-politics must use a subject line
starting with US-Politics:
Any questions should be directed to Paul E. Prusakowski, CPO at
<Email Address Redacted>
********************
OANDP-L is a forum for the discussion of topics related to Orthotics and
Prosthetics.
Public commercial postings are forbidden. Responses to inquiries of a
commercial nature should not be sent to the entire oandp-l list. Responses
should be collected and reposted by the person asking the question.
Send a message to the list by sending to: <Email Address Redacted> To unsubscribe,
send a message to: <Email Address Redacted> with the words UNSUB OANDP-L in the body of the
message. All postings related to US-politics must use a subject line
starting with US-Politics:
Any questions should be directed to Paul E. Prusakowski, CPO at
<Email Address Redacted>
Citation
Lance Hoxie, “Re: US Politics -- O&P licensing,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213251.
