BJS Academy
The BJS Academy is the educational arm of the BJS Foundation. A hub to meet, learn, be mentored, discuss, listen and understand the education and accreditation opportunities available
Continuing surgical education
As surgical science advances at an extraordinary rate, all surgeons have a duty to keep up to date to offer their patients treatment based on the latest research.
To support the professional development of general surgeons of all specialties, Continuing surgical education provides a wealth of formal digital courses, specialty digests and much more.
A myriad of skills and qualities are required to sustain a career in this field, including personal sacrifice, dedication and resilience. In this section, surgeons can access a series of publications exploring this important topic.
Laparoscopic reduction of transverse colon and greater omentum from left chest, repair of giant para conduit/diaphragmatic hernia with mesh and colonopexy
Jubril O. Adigun, Shanmuga Kannan, Periyathambi Jambulingam, Othman Al-Fagih, Farhan Rashid
A Diaphragmatic hernia following an oesophagectomy is a recognised but uncommon post-operative complication. Surgical repair can be challenging due to the distorted anatomy and prior reconstruction. This video demonstrates a safe and reproducible laparoscopic approach to the repair, incorporating a colonopexy to prevent recurrence.
This patient presented with a symptomatic left diaphragmatic hernia 3 months post-oesophagectomy with gastric conduit reconstruction. Laparoscopic reduction of the herniated colon and greater omentum was performed. The diaphragmatic defect was fixed with two non-absorbable sutures before placing a biological absorbable mesh over the repaired area to reinforce this closure. A colonopexy was then created to further minimise the recurrence risk.
The accompanying video provides practical guidance on technique and decision-making for surgeons managing similar cases.
2025 Polish Surgical Society BJS Lecture: How Denmark has achieved the best results in the treatment of colorectal cancer: possible in Poland?
The BJS Academy is delighted to showcase the BJS Lecture delivered by Professor Søren Laurberg at the 72nd Congress of the Polish Surgical Society (Towarzystwa Chirurgów Polskich) held in Warsaw, Poland, 22-25 October 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.
Ten steps towards better perioperative intravenous fluid therapy
Ess M, Lobo DN.
BJS 2025; 112: znaf179.
Cutting edge blog
This section is designed to add value to the articles published in BJS and BJS Open.
If you wish to send a written (or even recorded) comment on one of the published articles, please send it to katie@bjsacademy.com.
If you wish to respond more immediately, please use social media directly by tagging @BJSurgery, @BjsOpen or @BJSAcademy
Resources for writing, reviewing and publishing scientific papers
The BJS Academy, the educational arm of the BJS Foundation, has developed a series of practical, on-demand educational resources to support high-quality surgical research and successful academic publishing. Delivered by experienced editors, reviewers, and researchers, the resources below provide step-by-step guidance on writing, reviewing, and publishing scientific papers in leading peer-reviewed journals.
All resources are freely available on the BJS Academy.
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Presidents under the knife: James A. Garfield
Per-Olof Hasselgren, MD, PhD
Portrait of James A. Garfield. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
When James A. Garfield was sworn in on March 4, 1881 to become the twentieth president of America, little did he know how short his term would be. He was shot only four months into his presidency and would die an agonizing death seventy-nine days later. Garfield’s death was to a great extent caused by his doctors’ refusal to apply knowledge about antisepsis, despite the fact that Joseph Lister had reported his observations more than a decade earlier. Lister’s theories had been accepted by physicians in Europe but were looked down upon by many surgeons on this side of the pond, including those in leading positions in American surgery. A deranged Charles Julius Guiteau may have had a point when during his murder trial, he exclaimed, “Yes, I shot the President, but his physicians killed him.”
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.
All roads lead to outsourcing
Dr Paul McCoubrie
Welcome back to Dr Paul McCoubrie’s a 'view from the dark side' — a series looking at the world of surgery through the lens of a radiologist.
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The UK National Health Service (NHS) in common with many other health systems internationally is a sorry state. Specialities are stretched, most beyond the point of elasticity. Many have snapped and are broken. It is not just left-wing rabble rousing or doctors having a good old whinge. NHS and healthcare understaffing is completely genuine. Workload has grown as the populace lives longer, gets frailer and as healthcare grows in complexity. Funding has been either cut in real terms or never reaches the front line. Productivity has dropped as the NHS becomes more difficult to work in.
Are we risk aware or risk averse?
Dr Helgi Johannsson
Last year, I anaesthetised a woman for a diagnostic procedure. This is hardly a groundbreaking way to start an article about risk, but she had been highlighted to me because of her multiple co-morbidities. She had a surgical condition – an intra-abdominal cyst – that caused her constant pain every day, affecting her ability to walk, to eat and to perform even her basic activities, making her entirely reliant on her daughter. She had been turned down for surgery due to her other risk factors by the anaesthetic pre-assessment clinic and the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) looking after her, yet she continued to live with constant pain and distress. After a short discussion with her and her daughter, it became obvious that she did not want to spend the rest of her life in agony and would be very happy to take the additional risk of surgery for the benefit of not being in constant pain.
Every day, every hour we work in medicine we are assessing risk. Every decision to go ahead with surgery is a risk assessment and discussion with our patient. Usually the decision is straightforward, the patient has a surgical condition, an operation will relieve it and the risk of complications from the operation or the anaesthetic is low.
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