As a recently retired Consultant Gynaecologist and pilot I agree with most of what scooter boy says:
The Royal Colleges have had logbooks for years and our college (RCOG) brought in continuous professional development many years before the surgical colleges (and I am a fellow of two of these as well, in case you ask)and before it was made compulsory by HMG.
I would however agree that while a surgeon may only kill one person at a time, I would not be happy with the airline ethos of having a different crew on virtually every flight: This is I believe to assist CRM and to allow P1 and P2 to check each other continuously, I would find having a different trainee to assist at every operating list very counter-productive.
That said , the various medical journals often quote the airline industry in their quest to reduce the length of working shifts for all grades of medical staff.
Safe flying
Cusco.
