Reaching our successors: the trend for early specialisation and the potential effect on recruitment to our speciality

Anatomical Variations of the Occipital Nerves: Implications for the Treatment of Chronic Headaches

“…The education of undergraduate medical students has an important role in the stimulation of students to consider a future career in plastic surgery. 15 The development of electronic learning is a modern solution to the delivery of education using state-of-the-art technology. An electronic learning application in burn care-Advanced Burn Life Supporthas been described as an effective method for the education of trainees in plastic surgery, 16 and other electronic learning applications in plastic surgery have also been described in the literature.…”

The impact of medical student surgical conferences

“…Previous studies have shown that early exposure to surgery has been described as positively influencing subsequent applications to surgical training . As a result, it seems conceivable that increased exposure of medical students to different surgical specialties may generate greater interest in surgery.…”

A review of oral and maxillofacial surgery journals’ contribution to undergraduate surgical education

“…4 If undergraduates are to make informed choices about their careers and about surgical specialties such as OMFS, they need a better understanding of their scope and the opportunities that are available, particularly as career choices are increasingly being made earlier on in undergraduate or postgraduate education. 5 Knowledge and awareness among undergraduate medical and dental students could be improved if more surgically orientated educational articles were published within the field of OMFS and its allied specialties. We therefore aimed to identify and review publications relating to the education of medical and dental students in 4 leading international …”