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Table 5: Upgrade Applications Received and Upgrade Licenses Issued
After an initial license is issued, a health care practitioner or facility may choose to upgrade a license to reflect greater qualifications.
For example, a hearing aid specialist trainee (AST) may upgrade to become a hearing aid specialist after completing additional education.
During the 2015-2016 fiscal year, MQA issued 876 upgraded health care practitioner and facility licenses.
Profession
Upgrade Apps
Re-Exam Upgrades Upgrades Issued
Change of Location
Clinical Laboratory Personnel - Clinical Laboratory Personnel
512
0
382
0
Electrolysis Council - Electrolysis Facility
0
0
0
28
Hearing Aid Specialists - Hearing Aid Specialist Trainee
126
0
106
0
Massage Therapy - Massage Establishment
0
0
0
471
Massage Therapy - Massage Therapist
17
0
7
0
Medicine - Office Surgery Registration
1
0
1
0
Medicine - Physician Assistant (PA)
248
0
251
0
Nursing - Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP)
4
0
2
0
Nursing - Registered Nurse (RN)
1
0
1
0
Opticianry - Optician
43
0
41
0
Pharmacy - Nonresident Sterile Compounding Pharmacy
0
0
0
14
Pharmacy - Pharmacist
0
0
3
0
Pharmacy - Pharmacy
0
0
0
453
Pharmacy - Registered Pharmacy Technician
0
0
2
0
Pharmacy - Resident Sterile Compounding Pharmacy
0
0
0
15
Radiologic Technology - Radiologic Technology
138
163
80
0
Total
1,090
163
876
981
Professions not listed have no data to report. For a complete list refer to Table 1 and 2.
Table 4: Initial Applications Received and Initial Licenses Issued (continued)
Annual Report 2015 - 2016
APPENDIX: INFORMATION TABLE
Profession
Apps Received Re-exam Apps
Licenses Issued
Pharmacy - Resident Sterile Compounding Pharmacy
19
0
31
Physical Therapy Practice - Physical Therapist
1,452
353
1,061
Physical Therapy Practice - Physical Therapist Assistant
1,186
815
930
Podiatric Medicine - Certified Podiatric X-Ray Assistant
117
0
112
Podiatric Medicine - Podiatric Physician
110
0
101
Podiatric Medicine - Podiatric Resident Registration
46
0
52
Psychology - Limited License Psychologist
5
0
2
Psychology - Provisional Psychologist
12
0
10
Psychology - Psychologist
384
153
267
Radiologic Technology - Radiologic Technology
2,057
163
1,823
Radiologic Technology - Radiologist Assistant
13
0
7
Respiratory Care - Certified Respiratory Therapist
228
0
175
Respiratory Care - Registered Respiratory Therapist
921
0
817
School Psychology - School Psychologist
65
0
41
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Audiologist
103
0
100
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Audiology Assistant
43
0
38
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Provisional Audiologist
23
0
22
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Provisional Speech-Language Pathologist
521
0
475
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Speech-Language Pathologist
887
0
825
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
381
0
321
Total
128,924
16,757
100,244
Professions not listed have no data to report. For a complete list refer to Table 1 and 2.
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