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    > some without a ton of continuing education.

Where did you get this idea? I did a simple, five second Google search and learned that on average, US doctors are required to complete about 50 hours of continuing education for each one- to two-year recert cycle. (On HN, I also hear similar complaints about public school teachers. It isn't true. Public school teachers are required to do similar continuing education.)

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Taking continuing education credits to check a box for retaining professional licensure and educating yourself about emerging and novel concepts in your field are two vastly different things. If anything, CE helps professionals update their knowledge base regarding existing processes and procedures.

Not US, but the seminars to fill in the hours in my country were closer to legal bribes and/or holidays in often exotic places. They usually were provided/funded by the medicine lobby.

In Germany, at least for Dentists, it is exactly like this. Many training events are, in fact, hardly any different from sales events.

I am curious. Is dentistry considered poor in Germany? Or when compared to other similarly wealthy, highly-developed nations?

Same in US only sometimes more banal. Signup sheet in front of the stacks of pizza at some research talk at the medical school. Back row entirely asleep. Talk had nothing to do with medical practice but the researcher holds an md phd. Might be talking about their work in yeast.

Mandate vs interest.

Compare how seriously many SWEs take mandatory HR/compliance trainings vs hanging out on HN, taking online courses, arguing about code, trying new frameworks, coding in spare time, etc.

HN SWE's rarely do anything important. Doctors generally do.

Also doctors go to conferences and usually like doing it.

Neither teachers nor administrators take continuing education seriously, in my local experience.

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