Orthotist
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- None
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION ||| A person who is specifically trained and educated to provide or manage the provision of a custom-designed, fabricated, modified, and fitted external orthosis to an orthotic patient, based on a clinical assessment and a prescription from a health care practitioner or provider authorized by law to write such prescriptions, to restore physiological function or cosmesis; ||| Contact the regulatory agency for further information.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- Department of Professional Licensing
- Board
- Board of Prosthetics, Orthotics and Pedorthics
- Address
- 500 Mero Street 2 SC 32 Frankfort, KY 40601
- Phone
- (502) 892-4260
- Agency website
- http://pop.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx
- Licence page
- http://pop.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx
- Last updated
- July 18, 2024
Occupations (O*NET)
- Pedorthist 29-2091.00
Source and verification
This record is Kentucky's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
Before you apply, confirm every detail with Board of Prosthetics, Orthotics and Pedorthics — see the issuing body section above.
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