CA Licensure Question

[Anon200]

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I'm trying to obtain licensure in CA. I passed the EPP and applied to sit for the jurisprudence exam. I have 1500 internship hours and another 1500 hours I believed were postdoc. The board told me those postdoc hours don't count because they were completed after my conferral date. The only thing missing at the time was that my dissertation hadn't been uploaded to ProQuest, which I didn't realize was the last step needed to finalize the degree.

Has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Were you able to appeal the decision or did you have to redo the hours? Any advice would be really appreciated. Feeling very deflated after having completed a tough postdoc.

 

[futureapppsy2]

Do you mean that they were completed before your conferral date?

 

[WisNeuro]

Are you saying a postdoc accepted you before your degree had been officially conferred to you?

 

[Anon200]

I was registered with the board as a psych associate and accrued hours under supervision. I understood that these hours would count toward my postdoctoral hours, which were collected before my degree was conferred.

 

[WisNeuro]

Well, legally, those are not postdoc hours if that last step is a codified requirement for the degree.

"Postdoctorally” means after the date certified as “meeting all the requirements for the doctoral degree” by the Registrar or Dean of the educational institution, or by the Director of Training of the doctoral program."

It'd be hard to get around the legal statute. I guess you could appeal to the board for a variance, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope given that it's a pretty well-defined legal statute.