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Doctors are required to go through a certain number of Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses each year to keep their board certification. Many of these cou
by blackguardx 18y ago
Doctors are required to go through a certain number of Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses each year to keep their board certification. Many of these courses are in sunny vacation spots such as Hawaii, San Diego, etc. Depending on the seminar, some doctors go for a few minutes to get credit and then go golfing.
That being said, many doctors routinely read journal articles on the latest advances in medicine. I would venture that not as many engineers read IEEE articles. Still, there are many trade publications targeted towards engineers that seem to do a good job of keeping them up to speed.
Arguing over who spends more time keeping up to date is pointless.
- llimllib 18y ago> Arguing over who spends more time keeping up to date is pointless. Agreed! but that wasn't what vaksel was arguing. He argued that CS requires "constant refreshes", unlike "pretty much any other job". I'm simply arguing that the medical field, at least, requires just as much "refreshing" of skill as CS does. (re the specific example of doctors, the niceness of the places where they get certified is utterly irrelevant, as indeed are generally their certifications. It requires a lot of continuing education to be a doctor, and it also requires a lot of expensive, worthless certifications.)