Qualified continuing education is an academic course, workshop, clinic, forum, lecture, program, seminar, or other educational activity delivered for the purpose of increasing or sustaining the proficiency of the licensee in the practice of addiction or prevention counseling.
An academic semester credit equals fifteen continuing education hours and a quarter credit equals ten continuing education hours.
No qualified continuing education may be repeated in consecutive continuing education cycles.
S.D. Admin. R. 20:80:08:17
General Authority: SDCL 36-34-12.
Law Implemented: SDCL 36-34-12(1)(3).