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100 years of surgical education: The past, present, and future

Until the 19th century, the most common and well-established method of training surgeons—if any training was pursued at all—was through apprenticeships. Length of training and the starting age of the apprentice could vary, but a typical apprenticeship in the mid-16th century lasted five to seven years and would start around the age of 12 or 13. Further training, in the form of a journeymanship, was available under the tutelage of the same master or a different one but was not required for the practice of surgery. In the most basic form of this model, the student learns surgery through direct observation and then by imitating the actions of a skilled mentor, both in the operating theater and…

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American College of Surgeons

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Medscape

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