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I completely agree. In fact, this is why physician specialists are required to perform basic clinical duty in many different specialties before diving deeper in
by jquery 17y ago
I completely agree. In fact, this is why physician specialists are required to perform basic clinical duty in many different specialties before diving deeper into their primary specialty (I hope a physician will correct me if I am wrong).
The manner of specialization also depends on the field. In programming we have the luxury of time and a search engine, so knowing basic concepts are more important than API details. A surgeon has no such luxury--your heart transplant specialist had better know everything down cold.
- Retric 17y agoSurgeons often lookup how to do a surgery, and even call people for advice before they start. For complex problems they can spend hours or days deciding how to approach a complex problem using 3d images before they start. Now there are a lot of rote skills involved with fixing problems as they show up but normally they have plenty of time to prepare ahead of time and several people to assist them. Granted, when someone shows up in the ER with a gunshot wound they don't have the time, but that's hack and slash medicine where the goal to keep the patent alive for the next few hours so they can get time to deal with any major problems.