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Originally Posted by GGG
I was basing on 3yr residency plus 1yr schooling for 8-10 thousand hours.
10s of thousands of hours for all doctors or just specialists? it didn't say that specialists require 10s of thousands of hours. It said doctors. And 15,000 is not 10s of thousands. It is 1.5 10 thousands so even for specialists it's barely true. It's intended to exaggerate the number of hours required instead of being precise.
When providing skeptical commentary it's important to be precise and not exaggerate a claim.
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Well about 50% of doctors are specialists. As myself and Cracher alluded to, my number also doesn't include the 1000's of hours on call, teaching, attending rounds, journal club, etc. which is all mandatory clinical training outside of the the standard hours. Furthermore, the classroom component often has 1-2 days a week spent with hands on patients, or joining docs in the clinic/hospital. Once you add it all up, I think 20,000+ hours of hands-on clinical training is rather accurate.
Sounds like you are more embroiled in semantics here, which is ironic because this particular statement is far from the definition of hyperbole.