International rotations: A valuable source to supplement operative experience for acute care surgery, trauma and surgical critical care fellows.

Introduction: Acute Care Surgery (ACS), Trauma and Surgical Critical Care (SCC) fellowships graduate fellows deemed qualified to perform complex cases immediately upon graduation. We hypothesize international fellow rotations (IFR) can be a resource to supplement operative case exposure Methods: A survey was sent to all program directors of ACS and SCC fellowships via email. Data was captured and analyzed using the Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) tool. Results: The survey was sent to 113 program directors (PDs) with a response rate of 42%. Most fellows performed

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