Education for educating surgeons

[...]the average number of operations performed by registrars during their six month attachment has fallen from over 200 in 1993 to just over 160 today-a decrease of around 20%. [...]of thumb, reasonable training is service neutral, since the extra work obtained from a trainee is balanced by the loss of work caused by the trainer working more slowly in order to teach. 8 The provision by the postgraduate deans in England and Wales of only half of the basic level salary for trainees (and even the 100% provided in Scotland) does not fairly reward a unit that carries out proper training.