Open AccessSurgical training: what has changed?
Author(s) -
Zita Mickute
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/147363509x399560
Subject(s) - surprise , pessimism , medicine , training (meteorology) , general surgery , surgery , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , physics , meteorology , epistemology
This may or may not surprise you but the surgical training pathway has changed – and significantly so. Perhaps you have heard surgeons grumbling behind their theatre masks about the gloomy outlook for the surgical profession; they may have even gone as far as to warn you to steer clear of surgery altogether. The pessimistic whingeing about the state of the NHS seems almost a mandatory preoccupation for most doctors, and almost binds them in a common cause of sufferance.