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Basics of Professional Regulatory Law: Licensure and Certification, with an Emphasis on Health Professions
- Sources of legal requirements for professional licensure
- The difference between government licensure and private certification
- Educational requirements and training common to professionals
- State licensure mandates as applied to individual health care practitioners
- State agency creation and implementation of the law
- Education versus training; theoretical knowledge versus practice
- Administrative implications for the individual health care practitioner
Overview of the webinar
Today’s educated professionals function in a maze of different educational and training requirements, which vary from state to state and from profession to profession. Nowhere than in health care is this more evident where multidisciplinary health care practitioners work together towards a common goal for the patient.
What is a profession? What areas of work require the unique professional education, training and experience as to be regulated by the government through mandatory laws applicable to an individual person practicing his or her chosen profession?
State laws are enacted for the protection of the public by legislatures in all the fifty states. A list of individual professions and their applicable statutes and administrative regulations takes up entire volumes of lawbooks. These state laws impose significant regulation on these professionals, and often in very different ways found in many aspects of state regulation, from the educational process, the examination requirements, the state licensure applications and the legal standards and rules of each unique profession.
Explore how state licensure boards are created and function at the state level. While most such state agencies have common, core functions and operations, there are many differences and some requirements that are truly the opposite from profession to profession. Review the common requirements the state imposes on the health care provider. Know the basics of professional education and licensure. Understand the difference between legally binding laws and mere codes of ethics, which are aspirational and do not form the basis for legal action. Find out how to understand and navigate the challenges presented from differing and conflicting state laws governing the many health care professions. Know where key requirements exist that are common to many professions.
This program offers an objective, thorough review of the basics of state regulation of a given profession, with an emphasis on the individual health care practitioner. Once completed, the successful knowledge gained during this seminar will empower one’s broad overview of the professions in the United States.
Who should attend?
- Attorneys at Law
- Hospital Administrators
- Health Care Facility Managers
- Physician and Medical Office Managers
Why should you attend?
Many professions are regulated by the state, with varying statutes and regulations among even the same profession between the fifty states and territories. Why do professions require education, training and experience to be regulated by the government? How does one obtain a government license to practice a profession as an individual? What is the difference between having a license and being certified?
Identifying and understanding different professional practices is a daunting task in today’s multidisciplinary health care environment. It brings together several diverse professionals working in a common health care setting. Yet state laws differ from profession to profession and from state to state. While these laws are enacted for the protection of the public, they impose significantly different regulation on these professionals, and often in very different ways.
Find out how to understand and navigate the many professions and look at this body of practice as presented from differing and conflicting state laws governing the many health care professions. Answer confusion with a fundamental, insightful examination of licensure by the state versus certification of the individual by a private organization, which is not the government.
Faculty - Mr.Mark Brengelman
Mark worked as the assigned counsel to numerous health professions licensure boards as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Moving to private practice, he now helps private clients in a wide variety of contexts who are professionally licensed.
Mark became interested in the law when he graduated with both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He then earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law. In 1995, Mark became an Assistant Attorney General and focused in the area of administrative and professional law where he represented multiple boards as General Counsel and Prosecuting Attorney.
Mark is a frequent participant in continuing education and has been a presenter for over thirty national and state organizations and private companies, including webinars and in-person seminars. National and state organizations include the Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, and the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute.