The Florida Department of Health (DOH) Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) recently expanded its online license application capability to include 33 different license types in a number of health care professions. The recently-added license types include: audiologist, audiology assistant, provisional audiologist, certified chiropractic physician assistant, registered chiropractic assistant, chiropractic faculty certificate, occupational therapist, occupational therapy assistant, certified respiratory therapist, registered respiratory therapist, speech-language pathologist, speech-language pathology assistant, and provisional speech-language pathologist.
The online license application process first became available to nursing applicants in July 2008, as part of the electronic application process. Since then, there has been a dramatic reduction in nursing application times—from an average processing time of 24.11 days in Fiscal Year 2007-2008 to 17.73 days in Fiscal Year 2009-2010.
The online application is also available for the following license types: certified nursing assistant, with endorsement from another state; emergency medical technician (EMT); health care clinic establishment; paramedic; optician; optician assistant; optical establishment permit; optometrist; optometry branch office; optometric faculty permit; diagnostic radiological physicist; therapeutic radiological physicist; medical nuclear radiological physicist; medical health physicist; medical physicist in training; physical therapist; physical therapist assistant; and registered pharmacy technician.
Applicants can access the Online Licensure Application by going to www.FLHealthSource.com and selecting the “Apply for Initial Licensure” button. After creating an account using an email address and password, applicants will have up to one year to complete the application and pay the application fee. The online tool keeps applicants informed of the current status of their application, including any deficiencies.
For more information about MQA, visit www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/.
