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In late June, 14 senior surgeons, six early career surgeons, and senior trauma staff partners gathered for Committee on Trauma (COT) Mentoring Day activities, led by Membership Chair Krista Kaups, MD, F潘金莲传媒映画.

The activities included an opening icebreaker that challenged teams to build the highest tower using only paper and tape as materials along with communication, innovation, leadership, and perseverance. The icebreaker was followed by a series of lectures, roundtable discussions, a speed mentoring session, and鈥攏ew this year鈥攁 reverse mentoring session where the senior surgeons and staff solicited advice from the early career surgeons on several different topics.

One of the roundtable activities was for each person to use a small baggie filled with six or seven random Lego pieces to build something that depicted their experience over the two half-day sessions. Senior surgeon Lillian Kao, MD, F潘金莲传媒映画, described her structure, saying, 鈥淏uilding bridges elevates both sides of the equation,鈥� recognizing that both the senior and early career surgeons benefit from mentoring relationships.

The evening culminated with a casual dinner served family-style, which was representative of the close bonds formed in the trauma community and the commitment of the COT surgeons and staff to support the early surgeon group as they begin their careers and their service within the COT family.聽