Re: RECIPROCAL LICENSES

Re: RECIPROCAL LICENSES

Paul Prusakowski

9/14/2011

Bill,

If you want to send a compilation of responses, you can feel free to do so.
I am going to need to shut down the open discussions though so that we can
get back to regular listserv business without the ongoing dialogue. But you
are absolutely free to post a compilation of all responses that you received
if you like!

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Hamontree [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:53 PM
To: <Email Address Redacted> ; <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: RE: [OANDP-L] RECIPROCAL LICENSES

Hey, let us hear it for the OLD guys! Not that I, for myself personally, am
interested in a Reciprocal License. But I do feel there are
instances/individuals quite qualified to practice who would bring good
things to the field and to patients. Bill DeToro lays it out quite
clearly. Bill, sorry to say, but you are just a kid, a lot more years to
give to patients than I.

To me, it is a shame that this younger generation of leaders are so
interested in (whatever it is they are interested in) moving the field
forward have lost sight in their eagerness that they have totally lost the
ability to think of patients and what some older folks could do for those
patients -- even though they may be short a sheep skin.


Sam E. Hamontree, CP (E)
949-863-1951
<Email Address Redacted>


-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Bill DeToro, CO
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:29 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: Re: [OANDP-L] RECIPROCAL LICENSES

Dear List,
 
I would like to chime in on this one. I too am one of those older
generation practitioners. I spent 5 years learning how to evaluate
patients orthotic needs, while learning how to design and fabricate and
subsequently fit orthoses to those patients.

 
Afterwards, I took the required certificate courses in upper, lower and
spinal orthotics that were being offered at NYU and NWU. I sat for and
passed the ABC orthotic exam in 1973, first time around I might add. In
addition, I spent two years at Youngstown State University but failed to
get even an associates degree. Never the less I received some pretty good
education that I have used more than a couple of times in my 62 years.
 
I had the distinct honor and privilege to go through the chairs of the Ohio
Orthotic and Prosthetic Association, The American Orthotic and Prosthetic
Association and The American Board for Certification in Orthotics and
Prosthetics, ultimately being elected President of all three associations. I
also had the desire to become a Fellow of the Academy to prove that I had
what it took to earn that honor. I also served as an orthotic examiner for
well over 10 years.
 
I imagine if I gave it enough additional thought I could fill up some
additional space with other related things that I did within the orthotic
prosthetic professions during the past 44 years.
 
Unfortunately, now that I am enjoying the Florida winters, I can't offer my
expertise to patients in the sunshine state because of the lack of
reciprocal licenses. That is unless I would agree to work under the direct
supervision of some younger person who I am told must know a whole lot more
about Orthotics than I do because he or she possesses the newer educational
requirements of their license board.
 
Exceptions in state licenses, regarding reciprocal privileges should be
made, especially when the ultimate end result in doing so could very well
equate to patients in those states being provided with excellent orthotic
care from seasoned practitioners who still have a lot to offer.
 
My two cents worth!
 
William W. DeToro, LO/CO and a former FAAOP
 
 
In a message dated 9/14/2011 11:51:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
<Email Address Redacted> writes:

Dear List:

I am currently seeking employment. I am an ABC Certified Prosthetist and
an Illinois Licensed Prosthetist and Orthotist. I have been told that
there are not many states with licensing laws that have reciprocal
licensing.
The
licensed examples most commonly stated as difficult to impossible to
acquire
are: Florida, Texas and New Jersey.

I am wondering if there is a list of licensed states that shows whose
previous license is recognized by another state without examination.

I should also state that I am an old timer from the era that did not
require a Bachelor's Degree or residency to sit for the ABC exam. The
rules from
1972 required a GED, two years experience and successful completion of the
exam. (At the time Illinois first issued licenses, I received both
licenses
under the grandfather's clause. That window of opportunity was only
available for the first year of licensing. I am assuming that other states
had grandfather's clauses and are no longer available for use.)

I think it would be of assistance, if somehow a chart could be made
available of which licensed states will recognize and issue a reciprocal
license to someone accepting employment in another licensed state.

I would favor answers from members of their state's licensing boards as
definitive answers. I would also like to hear from successful licensees
who transferred to another state and what their experiences were.

I am sure that some one will also point out what additional questions I
should have asked in this post.

Thanks in advance for the assists.

Ed Roman CP/LPO(IL)