Due to the immediate need for social distancing as well as widespread disruption in clinical practices brought on by the novel SARS-cov-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, medical student education rapidly shifted to a virtual format, and resulted in a variety of innovative and remotely-accessible practices to address new restrictions on face-to-face education. Educators approached curriculum design seeking to replicate as much of the in-person experience as possible and were faced with overcoming the challenges of replacing the innately hands-on nature of surgery with virtual operative and skills experiences. Restrictions on in-person visiting electives expedited the role of virtual education as a notable opportunity for medical student education and recruitment, with a variety of approaches to engaging undergraduate medical learners including the use of live-streaming operative cases, virtual didactic curricula and a rise in podcasts, web-based conferences, and virtual journal clubs. In addition to education, virtual outreach to medical students has become an essential tool in trainee recruitment and selection, and ongoing application of novel educational platforms will allow for new opportunities in multi-institutional collaboration and exchange with a multitude of benefits to future vascular surgery trainees. This paper seeks to outline the resources and practices used to virtually teach and recruit medical students and the benefits of virtual rotations to the program and students.

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A 60-year-old woman involved in a motor vehicle collision presented with a traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the innominate artery origin in addition to multiple concomitant injuries. She was classified as a high-risk candidate for open repair. An experimental thoracic branched graft device was used for coverage of the injury with the addition of a right carotid-to-left carotid-to-left subclavian artery bypass. Follow-up imaging showed resolution of the pseudoaneurysm and patency of her bypass grafts. This is the first described use of the Mona LSA Branch Thoracic Stent Graft System (Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minn) in the innominate artery.

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