Continuing Education Program

The Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy's Read for Credit (RFC) program is designed to enable Journal readers to critically analyze selected JOSPT articles and successfully complete online quizzes about the content of these articles for continuing education credit. 

Testing Process

RFC participants read and study the selected article and, when ready, access and take the article's associated quiz. Quizzes are timed at 30 minutes, and participants have 2 opportunities to achieve a passing score and to review all of their answers - both correct and incorrect - before the second attempt. Upon successful completion of an article quiz, participants evaluate the experience and are awarded a personalized Certificate of Continuing Education Credits. RFC participants maintain a history of quizzes previously taken and credits and certificates awarded in the "My CEUs" section of their My JOSPT accounts. 

Cost to Participate

All JOSPT RFC quiz-articles are available online for review and study at no charge. The cost to participate in the RFC continuing education program is $25 per quiz-article for APTA Orthopaedic and Sports Section members and individual Journal subscribers, and $40 per quiz-article for non-members and individuals who access JOSPT articles through institutional subscriptions.

JOSPT Continuing Education Approval and RFC Coordinator

The JOSPT's RFC program has continuing education approval from the American Association of Physical Therapy (APTA), which, in turn, has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). The APTA reviews and approves all JOSPT article quizzes, and awards 0.20 CE units to participants who pass each RFC quiz with a score of 75% or better. The JOSPT also has an application pending with the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) to become an approved NATA provider. Further, individual quiz-takers may independently seek approval from their licensure agencies of the Journal's RFC program as an accepted form of continuing education. Article quizzes expire 1 year from posting on the JOSPT website.

The Journal's Read for Credit Coordinator is Jill M. Thein-Nissenbaum, MPT, SCS, ATC. Ms. Thein-Nissenbaum is currently an instructor and a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. She is responsible for educational planning for continuing education quiz-article topics, quiz question formulation and writing, and program outcome and satisfaction assessment. She can be reached at thein@surgery.wisc.edu.

Available Read for Credit Article Quizzes

Please find all currently available Read for Credit quizzes listed below.