875—218.302 (91D) Learned professions.
	 218.302(1) The “learned” professions are described in 218.3(1)“a” as those requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study as distinguished from a general academic education and from an apprenticeship and from training in the performance of routine mental, manual, or physical processes.
	 218.302(2) The knowledge must be of an advanced type. Thus, it must be knowledge which cannot be attained at the high school level.
	 218.302(3) The knowledge must be in a field of science or learning. This serves to distinguish the professions from the mechanical arts where in some instances the knowledge is of a fairly advanced type, but not in a field of science or learning.
	 218.302(4) The requisite knowledge must be customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study.
Source: 29 CFR 541.302.