The eight-hour course, which takes place entirely in the classroom, includes a self-assessment to determine if certain skills have become impaired.

Last year, 165,000 people took the two-day, eight-hour course.

The bus program is typically built around an eight-hour course delivered in one-hour installments to 20 children at a time.

My instructor for the eight-hour course entered the room only to change videotapes.

To prescribe it, a doctor must first take an eight-hour course and register with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

The new law requires doctors to take an eight-hour course on the use of buprenorphine-naloxone, and each doctor, or group practice, can treat up to 30 patients.

Every Saturday she went to an eight-hour course for the C.P.A. exam.

They completed an eight-hour course in industrial safety, taught by a licensed industrial hygienist.

Twenty-two states, including New York and Connecticut, and the District of Columbia now permit insurance companies to offer discounts in premiums to drivers who graduate the eight-hour course.

With Whit Haydn, Chef began the School for Scoundrels in 1996, as an eight-hour course on street scams and as a web-based retail business.