title: Professional development during a career break: building your own program.
abstract: Professional organizations offer healthcare quality management professionals a myriad of opportunities for professional development. Healthcare professionals taking a break from their careers can take advantage of these and other opportunities to build a program for professional development that is not job-specific, with a focus on reentry into the workforce. Options include continuing education via certificate, credentialing, and fellowship programs, writing, networking, doing volunteer work, and providing résumé or marketing services.
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authors.lastname: Gallagher
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003406:Credentialing; D004496:Education, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006282:Health Personnel; D010934:Planning Techniques; D016730:Program Development; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States