# Health Occupations (GHO)

## Title 13. Physical Therapists

### Subtitle 3

#### Section 13-304

(a) If an applicant for a physical therapist assistant license has been educated in limited physical therapy in any state, the applicant shall have:

  (1) Graduated from a physical therapist assistant program that is:

    (i) Approved by the American Physical Therapy Association; or

    (ii) Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education; and

  (2) Completed satisfactorily the clinical education required by the physical therapist assistant program.

(b) If an applicant for a physical therapist assistant license has been educated in limited physical therapy outside of any state, the applicant shall have graduated from a physical therapist assistant program that in the year of graduation has educational requirements equivalent to a degree in limited physical therapy from a program in the United States accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education.

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Md. Code Ann., Health Occ. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)