King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center here will organize on May 03-05, 2010, an international conference on "Advances in General Surgery and Training in Surgeries." On the fringes of the conference, a symposium will also be convened on "Possible Medical Errors by Surgeons during conducting operations". A number of surgeons from Europe, the US, Asia, Africa and the Arab world will participate in the conference, which will be chaired by Dr Ayman Linjawi, the Head of the Department of general surgery and tumor surgery at the hospital.