Mental wellbeing and burnout in surgical trainees: implications for the post‐COVID‐19 era.

I Editor i We read with interest the article by Spinelli and Pellino[1] describing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on outpatient clinics, elective surgery, emergency surgery, and how this burden translates to patients. The current COVID-19 pandemic will act as a significant stressor to surgeons and may exacerbate these issues. Future research is required across a wider sample of junior surgeons to understand causality, monitor trends, and aid implementation of national and local-level support and guidance to safeguard the mental wellbeing of our future surgeons. [Extracted from the article]