[Can intuition in surgery by learned?]

Intuition, even at the end of the 20th century, has decisive significance in the field of medicine. Intuition within the medical field is understood to be a type of thinking based on experience, but without conscious recourse to its situations and thought processes; rather, it represents an act without reflection and one determining our medical actions to some extent. It is a cognitive process, an intuitive gain in recognition on the basis of experiential values called up from memory. Intuition is a combination of knowledge, ability, endurance, intellectual abilities, and discoursive methods of recognition, in short, the abilities of an expert. To become an expert, one must go through the stations of surgical training. In these the knowledge is imparted, which leads via decision-making to diagnosis and therapy. Intuition in the sense of the definition as experiential thinking cannot be learnt, but it can be schooled. The prerequisites for this are analytic thinking, expert knowledge, and metacognitive knowledge.