Within this society several medical specialties, nursing arts, basic scientists, and likewise numerous medical laser instrument companies are represented. A medical laser may be defined as a specialized surgical instrument producing a particular type of electromagnetic radiation that can be delivered to various body surfaces, cavities, and structures. The usual purpose of the medical laser is to interact with tissue in a specific fashion so as to disrupt or destroy a cell or group of cells by either immediate or delayed action.
I believe the constituent elements of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery will agree, regardless of the particular type of laser that they use themselves, that a laser is representative of a class of medical instrumentation analogous in complexity and technology to ultrasound devices, nuclear magnetic resonance, linear accelerators, and in a simpler vein the scalpel, the electrocautery, or the microscope. As with these other instruments, the user must be properly instructed and taught how to use the particular equipment.
EDUCATION IN A MEDICAL SPECIALTY
Any resident who enters and completes medical specialty training must learn didactic and clinical material via a type of apprenticeship, beginning with the basic rudiments and progressing, over a period of years, to ascendancy, in which he or she