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Committee response was ignorantEDITOR,--I could not have hoped for a better reply to my letter on junior doctors' hours than that from Keith Reid.1 It sums up the ignorance of the Junior Doctors' Committee about the basic concept of training. Training in any profession requires exposure and practice: practice makes perfect. To gain experience in medicine one has to be exposed to clinical situations. It is a matter of numbers: the more you see and do the better you will be at making diagnoses, treatment, and operating, and this applies to all branches of medicine. One of the things that medical students are told is that interesting cases do not present only between 9 am and 5 pm on Mondays to Fridays. Somehow this simple message seems to have been forgotten by the Junior Doctors Committee.
Continuing medical education is important and provides structured learning without clinical pressures. It
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