It is very difficult to teach surgical residents when they have learned wrong techniques. I have been teaching young doctors in specialty training for 10 years and most often when they have learned something different to what I have learned, it is very difficult for them to change it. I end up trying hard to convince them that what they have learned is wrong.
It is different with fresh graduates. They have undiluted minds and brains that soak up all the things you teach. When you see them 5 years later, what I have taught them before they still are doing it making me proud.
Techniques in surgery seldom change unless someone wiser comes up with an easier one. Surgery for breast cancer, for instance, was refined by HALSTED in the 1900's. Until now, it is the standard practice all over the world; how we approach and make an incision to dissecting the axillary region. No other wise guy have come up with a better idea.
It is different with fresh graduates. They have undiluted minds and brains that soak up all the things you teach. When you see them 5 years later, what I have taught them before they still are doing it making me proud.
Techniques in surgery seldom change unless someone wiser comes up with an easier one. Surgery for breast cancer, for instance, was refined by HALSTED in the 1900's. Until now, it is the standard practice all over the world; how we approach and make an incision to dissecting the axillary region. No other wise guy have come up with a better idea.
Well Said!
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