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This study was undertaken to provide educationalists with a good and fundamental understanding of the way orthopedic surgeons progress from surgical residency to retirement. Understanding the transitions and stages that surgeons go through provides a basis for developing more in-depth learning opportunities. Explaining how surgeons progress through their careers allows verification of learning needs, and establishes reasonable and well grounded approaches that nurture the educational development process.

Such understanding also helps surgeons at each stage of their career to adjust and manage their lifelong learning needs in terms of patient care. Educational events and material can be more precisely targeted if these processes are understood, and as a result the education provided may be more likely to change surgical practice to the benefit of the patient.

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