%0 Journal Article %T Declining interest in general surgical training ¨C Challenging misconceptions and improving access at undergraduate level %A Aasim Nisar Murtaza %A Akiko Fukui %A Alexander Zargaran %A Amal Thomas %A David Zargaran %A Harry Victor Michael Spiers %A Jai Mathur %A Mohammed Turki %J Archive of "Annals of Medicine and Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.1016/j.amsu.2018.11.002 %X In recent years, general surgery has faced a decline in applicants for postgraduate training. The St. George's Surgical Society hosted a national surgical conference with an aim to explore the reasons for the decline and to investigate the effectiveness of a one-day intervention on students' perceptions of general surgery and surgical skills %K Education %K Training %K Laparoscopy %K Simulation %K Surgical pathway %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423304/