The authors thank Dr. Emil for the kind words and for highlighting the connections between our cited references, which further contextualizes our findings. We are pleased to hear about the possible developments from the American Board of Surgery and the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education in allowing bidirectional exchanges in surgical education.
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