Can Medical Schools or Residency Training Programs Teach a Surgeon to Have an Aesthetic Eye?

No.  No.  In order for a doctor to go through medical school and get into good residency programs, he or she has to have a certain degree of intelligence.  This allows them to gather the material, digest it, learn it, pass examinations, and become a qualified physician.  Then, they can move on and take residency programs to learn the art of plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, and a variety of other types of specialties.  Certain types of specialties and particularly that involving plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery require a talent that, in my opinion, is not teachable, and that is the aesthetic eye.  Intelligence and training does not teach something that, in my opinion, is genetic, and that is looking at features, not just one feature but the whole feature, and be able to discern what is beautiful, what is natural, what fits that particular individual the best, and symmetry.  It’s a certain way of looking at a patient, it’s an art, it’s a talent, and it is not teachable.  Talent is not teachable.  You can teach a person with talent to be better at their talent, but a person with no talent cannot be taught.  Therefore, when it comes to cosmetic surgery and the talent of the plastic surgeon, it is a genetic event, and either a surgeon has that genetic propensity to see beauty, see symmetry, see the whole and not just the part, and combine them all in order to make his form of surgery aesthetically pleasing to the eye and not appear to be operated, artificial, or look weird.

Therefore, to summarize this little writing, I feel quite strongly that talent and the aesthetic eye cannot be taught, and it is a talent.  If that person has that talent, then it can be tweaked further by proper training by other surgeons that have the same genetic propensity.