Importance of Credentials-why bother!!
M. Britt Spears CPO
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Title:
Importance of Credentials-why bother!!
Creator:
M. Britt Spears CPO
Date:
8/26/2003
Text:
Dear list,
I've been very troubled lately by the lack of regard toward credentials. I know that when I was enrolled in college, I wanted to be an ABC CPO because I felt that was the best I could become in this field. Then came along the FAAOP and I envied those practitioners because they went the next step above what I was. I still desire to gain that, but on my next renewal certificate-I'll wait.
Several manufacturers- not only Ossur, have taken steps to insure that credentials are of non-consequence. Some have actually said that certain individuals are well trained because they have bought a certain amount of their product or just taken their training course. Some manufacturers are allowing their salespeople to fit items.
The state of Florida, which has basically created the state licensure law that the other states have followed, grandfathered a group of people into their scheme and now as long as you have the LPO, LO or LP behind your name, you're as qualified as anyone else with those letters behind their name. I'm not starting the mudslide between BOC and ABC, I'm referring to non-certified practitioners that gained the L whatever. That makes me very uncomfortable.
Now I fianlly realize how MD's must feel when an insurance company hires someone off the street that has no education and can tell the MD that the procedure they deem as un necessary.
My questions to the list are: What can be done to insure that our credentials DO matter? How can we take back the streets so to speak? Should we just be apothetic and say well that's the way it is and it'll probably get worse and accept that?
Thanks
M. Britt Spears CPO
Spears Prosthetics and Orthotics
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I've been very troubled lately by the lack of regard toward credentials. I know that when I was enrolled in college, I wanted to be an ABC CPO because I felt that was the best I could become in this field. Then came along the FAAOP and I envied those practitioners because they went the next step above what I was. I still desire to gain that, but on my next renewal certificate-I'll wait.
Several manufacturers- not only Ossur, have taken steps to insure that credentials are of non-consequence. Some have actually said that certain individuals are well trained because they have bought a certain amount of their product or just taken their training course. Some manufacturers are allowing their salespeople to fit items.
The state of Florida, which has basically created the state licensure law that the other states have followed, grandfathered a group of people into their scheme and now as long as you have the LPO, LO or LP behind your name, you're as qualified as anyone else with those letters behind their name. I'm not starting the mudslide between BOC and ABC, I'm referring to non-certified practitioners that gained the L whatever. That makes me very uncomfortable.
Now I fianlly realize how MD's must feel when an insurance company hires someone off the street that has no education and can tell the MD that the procedure they deem as un necessary.
My questions to the list are: What can be done to insure that our credentials DO matter? How can we take back the streets so to speak? Should we just be apothetic and say well that's the way it is and it'll probably get worse and accept that?
Thanks
M. Britt Spears CPO
Spears Prosthetics and Orthotics
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Citation
M. Britt Spears CPO, “Importance of Credentials-why bother!!,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/221581.
