Table 1.

Comparative Surgical Training and Pandemic Demographics for the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

	United States	United Kingdom	Canada	Australia and NZ
Administering body for surgical training	Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 7	Royal College of Surgeons8,10	Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada11	Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)12
Approximate number of active surgical residents	19,780*,14	43718	2045†,43	2500‡,44
Current status of elective surgical services^	State specific. American College of Surgeons recommends minimizing, postponing or cancelling elective surgery17.	All non-urgent elective surgery suspended for >3 months16	Region specific. Ministry of Health requested all hospitals to reduce, but not necessarily stop, elective surgery18	Phased reopening elective services from early May 202019
Covid-19 Cases (Deaths)§,15	1,961,185 (111,007)	288,834 (40,680)	97,779 (7910)	8771 (124)

^⁎2017-18 figures.

^†2018 figure estimate.

^‡2015 figures.

^§as of 09 June 2020 (to be updated as required).