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> a little more schooling ... after getting a bachelor's degree (3-5 years) a general practitioner takes at the bare minimum 7 years of schooling and internsh
by palimpsests 11y ago
> a little more schooling
... after getting a bachelor's degree (3-5 years) a general practitioner takes at the bare minimum 7 years of schooling and internship. Surgeon far more than that. One can work as a professional software engineer without ever attending any university.
- iheartmemcache 11y agoYes, I do believe I addressed that-- "<from MS3, through residency, then fellowship for most surgeons, ~7-8 years>". (Though I'd argue a residency is far more time-intensive than a traditional "internship", and after you pass USMLE S3 you're a board-certified Medical Doctor until your 10 year card comes up) My point was that you're going to have hacks at any sort of field which involves operational mechanics, or for that matter any craft that involves a mastery of a skill. I'm a life-long tennis player. Competent enough to hold my own against a recreational player pretty safely, but cognizant enough to know I'm not Roger Federer. If we were to graph any trade/craft/art/profession practitioner, I'd imagine "good" (for any metric of good) can be depicted by a normal Gaussian plot. You'll have geniuses, hacks, and average folk.