Annals of Medicine and Surgery – Educating and Developing Leading Physicians and Surgeons

The prevailing narrative over the decades within much of postgraduate training is to just ‘get on with it’ and to lace problems with maxims like ‘publish or perish’ – which according to a quick search on PubMed has 91 articles explicitly mentioning it – the oldest back in 1962! Such thinking is unlikely to lead to the innovative solutions required for the problems presented by the ‘perfect storm’. It undermines the creative talents of our most treasured asset, the totipotent human capital represented by our trainees and students.