CStan
I just find the whole one month thing odd, at best, and don't quite understand the point of it.

In a month, you could teach a subset of the skills required to perform heart surgery - maybe some of the surgical knots one would need to be able to tie, some of the basic handling of standard surgical instruments, the anatomy of a heart. You certainly haven't trained a heart surgeon in one month and you have not trained a cabinetmaker either in that amount of time. We all obviously understand that cabinetmaking is not life or death, but really, the necessary skill set is huge and the entire 'one month hypothetical' is just silly.