Wis. Admin. Code Funeral Directors Examining Board § FD 4.04 - Approval of continuing education programs
(1) Except as
provided in sub. (8), to obtain approval of a continuing education program, the
program provider shall submit an application to the board on a form provided by
the board. To be approved by the board, a continuing education program shall
meet all of the following criteria:
(a) The
program relates to one or more of the following subject content areas:
1. Grief counseling or
communication.
2. Professional
conduct, business ethics or legal aspects specifically related to practice in
the profession.
3. Business
management concepts relating specifically to delivery of services to a
consumer.
4. Technical or practical
aspects of the profession.
(b) The program is available to all funeral
directors regardless of membership in or affiliation with any
organization.
(c) The program
provider does one of the following:
1. The
program provider of the continuing education program agrees to monitor the
continuous attendance of participants and to furnish to each participant
evidence of having attended and completed the program at the location of the
program.
2. The program provider of
a board-approved online continuing education program includes in the program a
method satisfactory to the board of determining a participant's successful
completion of the approved online program.
(2) An application for a continuing education
program shall include all of the following:
(a) Date and location of the
program.
(b) Time segments
scheduled in the program for presentation of subject areas specified in sub.
(2).
(c) Name and title of the
instructor.
(d) Name and title of
the person requesting program approval on behalf of the provider.
Note: Forms are available upon request to the board office, PO Box 8935, Madison, WI 53708.
(3) A separate application shall be submitted
for each continuing education program. Approval of a continuing education
program expires on December 31 of each odd-numbered year.
(4) A program provider shall apply for
approval of a continuing education program at least 30 days prior to its
presentation.
(5) A continuing
education program may include subject content other than that specified in sub.
(1); however, the board shall limit its approval only to that part and time
segments of the program which relate to subject areas specified in sub. (1)
.
(6) A board-approved online
program or course taken for academic credit shall be eligible for credit if the
program or course relates to subject areas specified in sub. (1) and meets all
other requirements in this section.
(7) In-service continuing education programs
sponsored by a funeral establishment are not eligible for credit unless the
programs are available to all licensed funeral directors and meet all other
requirements in this section.
(8) A
continuing education course sponsored by a national, international or state
funeral director's association, or an educational institution accredited by the
American Board of Funeral Service Education or approved by the Academy of
Professional Funeral Service Practice or otherwise deemed to be equivalent by
the board, which satisfies the criteria established in sub. (1) (a) to (c) and
s.
FD
4.045, shall be approved by the board without receipt
of a course approval application from the program provider .
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