LEADING SURGICAL

EDUCATION

About BJS Academy


It is essential for surgeons to engage in life-long learning to provide patients with the best available treatments.

Divided into five sections, BJS Academy is an online education resource that supports the professional development of current and future surgeons worldwide by championing research and collaboration.

Continuing surgical education


Committing to a career in surgery means keeping abreast of medical and surgical progress throughout 20–30 years.

Continuing surgical education summarises advances in various subspecialties, as well as providing lectures and vodcasts on topics of interest. If you wish to pursue formal credentialling or educational training courses, you can find out more about the BJS Institute’s collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.

Imaging biomarkers in aortic and peripheral artery disease

Imaging biomarkers in aortic and peripheral artery disease

Listen into to Rachael Forsythe's lecture "Imaging biomarkers in aortic and peripheral artery disease: the Hubble Space Telescope of cardiovascular research".
This lecture is presented as a part of our 2025 vascular series.

23 April 2025
2024 Vascular Society Kinmonth Lecture: Green surgery: process and products

2024 Vascular Society Kinmonth Lecture: Green surgery: process and products

Listen into the Kinmonth Lecture "Green surgery: process and products" delivered by Professor Mahmoud Bhutta at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Meeting 2024. This lecture is presented as a part of our vascular series.

14 April 2025

Young BJS


Dedicated to and managed by surgeons in training, Young BJS offers everything a trainee could need to supplement and expand upon their core learning.

Focusing on the importance of surgical research, it gives trainees the opportunity to read and critique research, design surgical projects and optimise their chances of being published in peer-reviewed journals.

Antibiotic stewardship in acute pancreatitis

Antibiotic stewardship in acute pancreatitis

van Santvoort H, Voermans RP, Zyromski NJ, Siriwardena AK.
Br J Surg 2025;  112: znaf007

17 April 2025
Rectal cancer surgery: radiology roadmaps

Rectal cancer surgery: radiology roadmaps

Pring ET, Burling DN, Glover TE, Jenkins JT.
BJS 2025; 112: znae270.

2 April 2025

Cutting edge blog


Globally recognised journals, BJS and BJS Open, deliver a wealth of quality materials surrounding surgical science and learning.

The Cutting edge blog offers commentary and opinion pieces about published papers, journal clubs and debates for regular readers of the Foundation’s journals, as well as summary digests of other recent surgical publications.

Author response: Endoscopic appendix opening sphincter incision to remove faecolith

Author response: Endoscopic appendix opening sphincter incision to remove faecolith

Gang Bian

Correspondence to: Gang Bian (e-mail: bianganglingling@163.com)
Department of Gastroenterology
Qingdao Third People's Hospital Affiliated to Qingdao University

11 April 2025
Comment on: Endoscopic appendix opening sphincter incision to remove faecolith

Comment on: Endoscopic appendix opening sphincter incision to remove faecolith

Chahrazed Dous

Correspondence to: Chahrazed Dous
Tazoult City

11 April 2025

Scientific surgery


Designed to help the busy surgeon keep up to date, Scientific surgery provides succinct summaries of new and interesting information collated from leading surgical journals and digital media.

Surgical news


Exploring topics relevant to both surgeons and people without medical training, Surgical news is accessible to everyone.

Many patients seek reliable information on the best treatments for surgical diseases, whilst others have a general interest in reading quality articles about surgeons and surgical practice.

A view from the coffee room…on the friendship between residents

A view from the coffee room…on the friendship between residents

Virve Koljonen MD, PhD

Residency, and especially surgical residency is hard1. Burnout, depression, harassment, emotional exhaustion, and stress are way too familiar with current surgery residents2-7. Unfortunately, the situation has not changed much since I was resident8, 9. But what has changed is that we acknowledge this now. I have to say though, it is good that I did not read these articles before I started my surgical career about 27 years ago.
Surgery residency and residency in general changes previous personal relationships and this is tied to evolving professional identity10. Strange working hours, and patient-doctor relationship confidentiality may lead to fewer talking points with non-medical friends and family11. Further, these relationships with non-medical friends and family may not thus provide the support they used to,11, 12 especially when dealing with work-life and residency.

28 March 2025
A view from the coffee room…When you are feeling down and you are an introvert, and someone asks you for your mini autobiography (and other benefits)

A view from the coffee room…When you are feeling down and you are an introvert, and someone asks you for your mini autobiography (and other benefits)

Virve Koljonen MD, PhD

Now really personal stuff: I am very reluctant to talk about me. I am more into talking about factual professional stuff. Nonetheless I was asked by BJS Academy to write about my path from there to here. How to solve this problem? I solved this by making a very boring bullet point list of turning points in my life. Then I entered this list into the AI podcast generator.
Hear, Hear, a lot of wows, ooohhs, love its and I like that’s, with an American accent. Not exactly what we call European mentality and certainly not Scandinavian or Finnish. Listening to this was balancing between embarrassment and proud - in the beginning. The further the podcast got, the better I felt. Actually, it is quite good to hear voices talk about you enthusiastically.

28 February 2025

BJS Academy team


The talented team behind the Academy bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to their roles.

The Academy website is managed by IT partners, River Valley Technologies, a Content Management team coordinated by ACS Global and a BJS Academy Board managed by Jonothan Earnshaw.

Director

Director


Jonothan Earnshaw manages and coordinates the activities of BJS Academy.

Director

BJS Academy Board


Supporting the Director, this team creates the Academy’s educational resources.

Director

Management team


This team supports the Director to deliver the strategy and manage the delivery of the Academy.