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Re:Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the O... by sk5t on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:20AM (#10931284)
Isn't continuing education in most fields sort of a laugh, such as it is in the legal profession? Is this the case in medicine as well?
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Re:Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the O... by JBReefer on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:22AM (#10931297)
At least in Urban Planning, and certainly in software engineering it's definitely not a joke.
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Re:Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the O... by sk5t on Saturday January 23, 2016 @11:44PM (#10961499)
I've never heard of formal continuing education in software engineering in any way analogous to that in legal. Curious to know to what you refer.

Yes, in SE you've got to work hard to keep current, but this is not achieved by attending seminars and the like.

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