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How long can you not practice medicine before your skills deteriorate and your knowledge become obsolete? Probably just as fast as it happens to programmers.
by ojbyrne 18y ago
How long can you not practice medicine before your skills deteriorate and your knowledge become obsolete? Probably just as fast as it happens to programmers.
- Deadsunrise 18y agoYes, because humans change as fast a computer technologies , right? I think that next week they will be putting out Lungs 2.0 Come on, if you are a doctor you can always be a doctor, in a couple weeks you can get up-to-date with the discoveries made in your field in the last 10 years.
- arn 18y agoactually, the body doesn't change much, but medical practice changes a lot over a few years. Treatments and standards of care change pretty frequently, so you do need to keep up (if you are practicing) There are required continuing medical education credits to maintain your licensure. And board certification expires in 10 years, so you need to re-take the licesnsing tests every 10 years besides doing regular education every 2 years.