Competence Maintenance

B.C. occupational therapists are required to maintain their competence. In 2012, the College is continuing its review of this element of the program.

Therefore registrants are not required to confirm their ongoing competence through submission of the current Declaration Form.

However, the expectation that BC occupational therapists continue to maintain their competence remains. How they do this is up to the individual registrant. If registrants would like to continue to use the present tools, i.e. the self-assessment tool and/or the professional development plan to help guide their competence maintenance they may do so but they will not be used in any type of College audit in the future. In other words, any documents used this year and submitting a declaration form are not required for registrant renewal for the 2012-2013 registration year.

If you have questions regarding this, please direct them to info@cotbc.org.