Objectives: The specialties of vascular surgery and transplant surgery have had difficulties in recruitment and retention of professionals.
Materials and methods: We e-mailed a 10-question survey to a distribution list compiled from peerreviewed vascular surgery journals and Professional online profiles associated with the vascular community. Respondents interested in transplant or in a kidney transplant-vascular curricula merger were labeled as "invested" in transplant. The characteristics of respondents invested in transplant versus respondents invested in vascular-only pathway (not invested) were compared with the Fisher exact test and multivariable logistic regression. We used STATA for analyses, with P ≤ .05 as an indication of significance.
Results: Of 113 respondents, 56 (50%) reported a current interest in organ transplantation. Within the interested group, most (66%, 38/58) favored renal only training. The invested group (55% 62/113) had higher interest in fellowship than the group not invested (P = .002) and favored a shorter fellowship for kidneyonly and combined kidney-liver training (P = .001 and P = .04,respectively). An additional 21 were interested in transplant training integrated with residency but not a fellowship, totaling a cumulative 73% (83/113) with interestin transplanttraining. Respondents older than aged 50 years and attending vascular surgeons (0+5) had significantly decreased investment in transplant (P = .027 and P = .033), respectively.
Conclusions: A robust vascular surgery workforce with an interest in organ transplant training is potentially available. Surgeons trained in vascular transplant would require a vascular transplant pathway to be established, which could diversify skills and may increase diversity, equity, and inclusion.