Diverse Surgeons Initiative (DSI) 2.0 The original Diverse Surgeons Initiative (DSI) started in 2002 and was a joint venture between Ethicon Endosurgery and ethnic minority leadership within academic surgery. The DSI provided intentional technical and didactic minimally invasive surgery (MIS) training to promising, mid-level (Post Graduate Year “PGY” 3-5), ethnically underrepresented in medicine (UIM) surgical residents. Participants had profound success in obtaining surgical fellowships as well as