Say you have a medical doctor, or someone who studied computer science (or another field based in science) who graduated with their degree in, say, 1980, and are still working today. Is there any sort of retesting or recertification as new information emerges? Our understanding of STEM, health, and many other fields are constantly changing. Things we believed to be factual in the past often times aren’t in the future. So do professionals in fields like that, who began in these fields decades ago, actually have to learn new things as we learn more? Or can they just keep using outdated techniques?
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Licenses to practice have to be renewed regularly, and continuing education is part of the process. My wife is physical therapist and has to take and document passing something like 40 hours of continuing ed. every 2 years to renew license. There are also things like attending conferences, in-service programs, etc.
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