Professional development (PD) is a broad, albeit vaguely defined, construct that underlies psychologists’ education and training and is intrinsic to professional functioning, or professionalism, throughout psychologists’ careers. This article resulted from the deliberations of a working group at the November 2002 Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Profe...

This paper presents a proposal for a working group session on the role of industry training and professional certification in information security education at the tertiary level. The main question posed is Does industry training and professional certification have a place in university information security courses? If so, What industry training and professional accreditation courses are approp...

This paper describes training and professional development activities at a mid-sized IT consulting firm over the last roughly 15 years. These activities have successfully engaged many of the consultants and provided significant career bonuses and advantages for the company. We present the types of activities, their effectiveness and success, and the evolution of professional development efforts...

The training of occupational physicians has recently undergone profound changes, is still changing, and in the future we may see some of the developments envisaged here. All four of the phases of training are changing: undergraduate, general professional training (basic specialist training), higher specialist training and, finally, continuing education which is maintained throughout professiona...