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The impact of surgical conferences: a response

Al Omran et al. suggest that ‘it has been recently reported’ that UK medical students ‘prefer nonsurgical career paths’. The article used to reference this statement only evaluates 193 students in 2007 from one UK medical school. 3 We feel that this statement and its referencing could be improved. The authors could have referenced a study that has evaluated recent student attitudes towards careers in surgery and their contributing factors. 4 Such information would encourage readers interested in planning a surgical conference to incorporate aspects into the conference that address these factors specifi cally.