The greater benefit on comprehensive general surgery resident education through implementation of a pediatric surgery fellowship

摘要

We read with interest the recent article, Impact of implementation of a pediatric surgery fellowship on general surgery resident operative volume, which evaluated one potential effect of initiating a surgical fellowship on the categorical general surgery (CGS) resident education. Although the reduction in operative volume at the "Surgeon Junior" level observed in this study appeared real, the founders of the pediatric surgery (PS) fellowship at the core of this analysis are concerned that the reader may come away with an incomplete understanding of the far more positive influence the fellowship has had on the examined CGS residency and institution at large. This letter is intended to gently redirect the reader toward the greater good that a carefully planned PS fellowship can impart on CGS resident education, academic training, and specialty choice.