Moving target
Stan LaCount
Description
Collection
Title:
Moving target
Creator:
Stan LaCount
Date:
12/15/2000
Text:
Every day I get new e-mail concerning BOC and ABC licensure requirements (RE
Federal legislation). I'm planning to be certified too someday but I'm not
sure I can hit the moving target. It doesn't seem fair somehow that those
practitioners who have ABC & BOC and have met each respective bodies minimum
requirements continually seek to raise both the education and experience
bars. It looks to me like you guys want to increase your professional
standing on the backs of newcomers. While granfathering in uneducated old
timers may have been an expedient thing to do, continuing to require more
stringent experience & education levels for new applicants to O&P is
extreemly self serving.
Why shouldn't all the existing CPO's, CP's, CO's be required to take the new
certification tests and meet the new minimum requirements that they are so
adamantly proposing for this field? It is all very well and good to raise
standards but shouldn't they be met by all? At this point, I'm going to
practice O&P without certification until everyone (ABC, BOC, or otherwise)
gets their act together and decides what minimum requirements shold be met
by everyone! It is obvious why enrollments are down when one considers the
unlevel and shifting playing field being designed by the Old Guard for new
the new players.
Stan LaCount PRE
Federal legislation). I'm planning to be certified too someday but I'm not
sure I can hit the moving target. It doesn't seem fair somehow that those
practitioners who have ABC & BOC and have met each respective bodies minimum
requirements continually seek to raise both the education and experience
bars. It looks to me like you guys want to increase your professional
standing on the backs of newcomers. While granfathering in uneducated old
timers may have been an expedient thing to do, continuing to require more
stringent experience & education levels for new applicants to O&P is
extreemly self serving.
Why shouldn't all the existing CPO's, CP's, CO's be required to take the new
certification tests and meet the new minimum requirements that they are so
adamantly proposing for this field? It is all very well and good to raise
standards but shouldn't they be met by all? At this point, I'm going to
practice O&P without certification until everyone (ABC, BOC, or otherwise)
gets their act together and decides what minimum requirements shold be met
by everyone! It is obvious why enrollments are down when one considers the
unlevel and shifting playing field being designed by the Old Guard for new
the new players.
Stan LaCount PRE
Citation
Stan LaCount, “Moving target,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 28, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215520.
