As mentioned, there are significant advantages to maintaining partnerships long-term, especially given their bidirectional nature. While helping build surgical capacity in LMICs, surgeons from HICs learn how to navigate complex surgical cases in low-resource settings and how to effectively develop training programs. Other benefits from involvement in ISTCs for surgical healthcare providers from HICs include becoming well-rounded and more adaptable in surgery, improving educational skills, and developing teamwork and leadership skills that are beneficial in surgical programs at their home institutions. Overall, continuing a bidirectional exchange of knowledge in ISTCs is important to increasing collaboration and unity in such efforts by equally engaging both sides of the partnership and by maintaining relationships long-term.