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Herman & Wallace continuing education courses are attended mainly by physical therapists. However, we see ourselves as a resource for all health care practitioners seeking to improve patients' quality of life, and other professionals are welcome in our courses so long as the content covered in any given course that one attends is within that person's scope of practice. It is the responsibility of course registrant to check with their state boards to ensure that the content of a Herman & Wallace course that they attend is within their state-specific scope of practice

Students in a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program are welcome to attend our courses once they have reached the third year of their program and/or have completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. Studetns may register while in their 2nd year for an event that has a start date in their third-year. Herman & Wallace policy is that DPT students are not allowed to attend self-hosted events.

The following is a "non-exhaustive" list of practitioners who are welcome to take our courses:

By "non-exhaustive" we mean that these are simply the most common registrants that we see in our courses. Potential registrants who are not licensed in one of the above professions and wish to attend a given H&W course must contact their state licensing board and ask for written clarification on whether or not the content of the course they wish to attend falls within their scope of practice. Prior to allowing a registrant who holds a license other than those listed above to attend a course, we will require a written letter from that individual's state licensing board that states:

1 - The content of the course is within the scope of practice of the attendee's license
AND
2 - The attendee's scope of practice includes patient diagnosis and prognosis

Our requiring such a letter from a state board is new policy that balances the dynamic nature of state licensing requirements and scope of practice, or goal of offering this education to as many practitioners as possible, and our legal risk of allowing practitioners into our courses that do not hold a license on the approved list of license types at the list above.

Licensed Massage Therapists

Herman & Wallace values the work of Licensed Massage Therapists (LMTs) and the place LMTs have in the healthcare industry. However, we have consulted with legal counsel, and at the advice of our legal counsel, we are not accepting registrations from LMTs at this time. If regulation of the LMT profession changes, we will revisit this policy with our legal counsel and amend our attendance policies accordingly.