Career planning for future surgeons

摘要

The competitiveness of surgical specialities is no secret. Indeed, it iswell known that plastic surgery and ophthalmology make up one of themost competitive areas of surgery and medicine alike [1,2]. Furthermore,any career that may even remotely resemble normality in working hours(9–5) will naturally attract more applicants [1]. However, a clear directionof what to do in order to boost ones chances of obtaining a training post iswhat is missing in a large proportion of medical students.