Renewing qualifications is a must for most professions
Most of the city's professions are required to ensure their license to practise is up to date
From accountants to doctors, most professions in Hong Kong have had mandatory continuing education for at least 10 years.
In medicine, all 5,672 practitioners in 54 specialties must meet the requirements of an Academy of Medicine programme every three years to renew their qualifications.
In the past three years, the Medical Council has removed seven doctors from its Specialist Register after they failed to do so.
Even the 7,000-odd non-specialists are strongly encouraged to advance themselves.
In 2001, the council introduced a programme to grant a certified title to those who voluntarily completed the accreditation over a three-year cycle.
Figures for 2010 showed that some 2,200 out of 7,000 non-specialist doctors obtained the certified title that year.
For accountants, they must fulfil a continuing education requirement to renew their membership with the Institute of Certified Public Accountants.