WOMEN surgeons are on a recruitment drive at a girls' schools.
Today, a team led by Helen Richardson, senior registrar at he Sunderland Royal Hospital, will visit Polam Hall School, in Darlington.
The visit is part of a national drive by the Royal College of Surgeons to encourage more girl students to consider training as surgeons when they are older.
Currently, only about one in 20 British surgeons is female, while one in five female students decide against specialising in surgery even before they arrive at medical school, despite the fact that women now outnumber their male counterparts.
The week is part of a nationwide series of workshops organised by Women in Surgical Training, a group set up by the Royal College and the Department of Health to encourage more women to go into surgery
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