Re: Fw: AOPA, NOMA, and Stock & Bills/US POLITICS
Jerry Levitt
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: Fw: AOPA, NOMA, and Stock & Bills/US POLITICS
Creator:
Jerry Levitt
Date:
4/24/2002
Text:
Dear Mr. Fedder:
You keep telling the same half-truths, but from the responses I think most educated people are on to you.
I just looked at your website again, just to make sure you hadn't changed the requirements without anyone knowing. Your site is well done from a marketing standpoint, you sell your bunk and emphasize what the costs are and how they must be paid. Otherwise there are no details as to what constitutes supervised or relevant or comprehensive, just how much money to send.
Your reply to Tony states BOC requires 3800 hours of supervised on the job training. But your application states if you are self-employed all you need to have is a signature from someone who knows you and what you have been doing. This could be someone in another state or country, hardly what I would deem supervised on the job training!
Two years of relevant education or study, sounds great but what does it mean? Is it the junior and senior year in high school? The time spent learning to laminate? Since you say education or study I take this to mean your applicants could choose either to be educated or to study. This must be some new type of home-schooling. By the way what is relevant? Nowhere do I find any requirement for any education, just a few check boxes to let you know if the applicant can read the application. Do you require transcripts for this relevant education? Why do you ask the applicant to tell you their education level and not ask for transcripts? This tells me you are only interested in statistics, not the applicant's education.
Your comprehensive examination sounds like a joke. One-third of the exam is a self-made video, great if you are enrolled in film school, pretty hokey if you want to prove you are an orthotist. I have never taken your exam but have heard many individuals comment that it is a joke. Your literature boasts of high passing rates, not indicative of comprehensive, more like mediocre.
You chastised Tony in that he should know better than to talk about the 40 hour BOC course for certification. Finally the truth! As you emphasized, there has never been any requirement of attending any course to get BOC certified. If BOC had a 40 hour course requirement it would be a step up.
Dr. Jerry Levitt
--
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:42:52
Donald Fedder wrote:
>Tony-
>You should know better than to talk about the 40 hour BOC course for certification. This has never been the case, but is an often repeated falsehood!.
>
>BOC requires two years (3800 hours) of supervised on the job training providing services directly to patients (i.e., not in the back room!) plus at least two years of relevant education or study - a minimum of four years total - to be eligible to take its comprehensive certification examinations. They then have to pass its rigorous set of three examinations. If you qualify, we'll be happy to send you certification application materials.
>
>Please see our web site www.bocusa.org for more information.
>
>Don Fedder
>
>________________________________________
>Donald O. Fedder, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.
>Professor, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research &
> Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
>Schools of Pharmacy & Medicine
>506 W. Fayette St., Suite 200
>Baltimore, MD 21201
>Phone 410-706-5044
>Fax 410-706-0869
>internet <Email Address Redacted>
>
See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar
<URL Redacted>
You keep telling the same half-truths, but from the responses I think most educated people are on to you.
I just looked at your website again, just to make sure you hadn't changed the requirements without anyone knowing. Your site is well done from a marketing standpoint, you sell your bunk and emphasize what the costs are and how they must be paid. Otherwise there are no details as to what constitutes supervised or relevant or comprehensive, just how much money to send.
Your reply to Tony states BOC requires 3800 hours of supervised on the job training. But your application states if you are self-employed all you need to have is a signature from someone who knows you and what you have been doing. This could be someone in another state or country, hardly what I would deem supervised on the job training!
Two years of relevant education or study, sounds great but what does it mean? Is it the junior and senior year in high school? The time spent learning to laminate? Since you say education or study I take this to mean your applicants could choose either to be educated or to study. This must be some new type of home-schooling. By the way what is relevant? Nowhere do I find any requirement for any education, just a few check boxes to let you know if the applicant can read the application. Do you require transcripts for this relevant education? Why do you ask the applicant to tell you their education level and not ask for transcripts? This tells me you are only interested in statistics, not the applicant's education.
Your comprehensive examination sounds like a joke. One-third of the exam is a self-made video, great if you are enrolled in film school, pretty hokey if you want to prove you are an orthotist. I have never taken your exam but have heard many individuals comment that it is a joke. Your literature boasts of high passing rates, not indicative of comprehensive, more like mediocre.
You chastised Tony in that he should know better than to talk about the 40 hour BOC course for certification. Finally the truth! As you emphasized, there has never been any requirement of attending any course to get BOC certified. If BOC had a 40 hour course requirement it would be a step up.
Dr. Jerry Levitt
--
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:42:52
Donald Fedder wrote:
>Tony-
>You should know better than to talk about the 40 hour BOC course for certification. This has never been the case, but is an often repeated falsehood!.
>
>BOC requires two years (3800 hours) of supervised on the job training providing services directly to patients (i.e., not in the back room!) plus at least two years of relevant education or study - a minimum of four years total - to be eligible to take its comprehensive certification examinations. They then have to pass its rigorous set of three examinations. If you qualify, we'll be happy to send you certification application materials.
>
>Please see our web site www.bocusa.org for more information.
>
>Don Fedder
>
>________________________________________
>Donald O. Fedder, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.
>Professor, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research &
> Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
>Schools of Pharmacy & Medicine
>506 W. Fayette St., Suite 200
>Baltimore, MD 21201
>Phone 410-706-5044
>Fax 410-706-0869
>internet <Email Address Redacted>
>
See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar
<URL Redacted>
Citation
Jerry Levitt, “Re: Fw: AOPA, NOMA, and Stock & Bills/US POLITICS,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/218792.
