BJS Academy

BJS Academy BJS Academy publish the foremost journal for surgeons as well as offering surgeon education resources & courses.

📢 Calling trainee organisations, student bodies and organisations that are not a #BJSFoundation partner!

Interested in applying for funding to support education?

🌍 Explore available opportunities here: buff.ly/eZA5nie

Application deadline: 1 June! ⏳

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🏆 BJS Award: 4 weeks until nominations open
➡️ www.bjsacademy.com/page/bjs-award

The BJS Award:
💫 Celebrates excellence in surgical science.
💫 Recognises a discovery, innovation or scientific study that has changed clinical practice.

Nomination window will open 2 April.
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The BJS Foundation is delighted to announce a new partnership for 2026 with the Portuguese Society of Surgery (Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia - SPCir).

We look forward to collaborating closely.🙌
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BJS Academy Sánchez-Rodríguez M, Pastor C, Tejedor P. BJS 2025; 112: znaf213.

🏥 Surgical site infection
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🗨️Preoperative optimization, implementation of intraoperative preventive strategies, early diagnosis, prompt source control, tailored antibiotic therapy. - Johanne Gormsen

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🏆ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: All roads lead to outsourcing
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With demand rising, workforce gaps widening, and costs escalating, is outsourcing a solution — or a symptom?

@pmccoubrie.bsky.social takes on the realities behind outsourced radiology

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🔍WebSurg focus - Colorectal surgery
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🌐Continuing our partnership with IRCAD and WebSurg, we bring you February's focus of the month🚀

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🩺 Presidents under the knife: James A. Garfield
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In this fascinating guest blog, Professor Per-Olof Hasselgren examines one of the most striking surgical failures in political history.

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🏥 Bridging the gap: exposing the hidden challenges towards adoption of artificial intelligence in surgery
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🗨️ Importance of data sharing and well-defined standards, better collaboration between data scientists and clinicians. - J Gormsen
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💜Oncological impact of unexpected horizontal tumour spread in oesophagogastric junction cancer

For oesophageal cancer awareness month, we're highlighting 6️⃣ of the most important studies published in BJS and BJS Open.

Third and final @bjsopen.bsky.social
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💜Tolerability, toxicity, and outcomes following surgical and non-surgical approaches to the management of patients with locally advanced oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: multicentre retrospective cohort study

Second paper from @bjsopen.bsky.social
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💜New quantitative blood flow assessment of gastric conduit with indocyanine green fluorescence in oesophagectomy: prospective cohort study

For oesophageal cancer awareness month, we're highlighting 6️⃣ of the most important studies published in BJS and BJS Open.
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💜Oesophagectomy in the East versus the West: comparison of two national audit databases

Oesophageal cancer awareness month: we're highlighting 6️⃣ of the most important studies published in BJS and BJS Open

Next up from @bjsurgery.bsky.social
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💜 Oesophageal cancer awareness month: Evaluation of pathological complete response as a surrogate endpoint for overall survival in resectable oesophageal cancer: integrated analysis of individual patient data from phase III trials

Published @bjsurgery
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💜Oesophageal cancer awareness month: Implementation and effectiveness of robot-assisted minimally invasive oesophagectomy (RAMIO): a systematic review using the IDEAL
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Published in @bjsurgery.bsky.social

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💟 February is Oesophageal cancer awareness month
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Read the 🆕 blog and check out 6️⃣ of the most important studies published in @bjsurgery.bsky.social and @bjsopen.bsky.social from the past year

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👇This is a really good initiative. Review a book that you have read and send it through to the BJS #BookMedSky

As ever, my intentions are perfectly serious, clothed in humour

BJS Academy 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. _______________________ The UK National Health Service…

🚨 All roads lead to outsourcing?
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📈 Imaging demand up.
👩‍⚕️ Workforce down.
💷 Outsourcing up.

🆕 Blog by @pmccoubrie.bsky.social takes on the realities behind outsourced radiology — why it’s now unavoidable, why it’s controversial, and what needs to change.
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📚#BJSBookshelf: Call for submissions!

⭐️ Read any books you think Surgeons should read?

Send your recommendations to the #BJSBookshelf to get your book review published online!

📧Email katie@bjsacademy.com for consideration

To read past reviews like Begum's
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BJS Academy Lindmark M, Tall J, Darkahi B, Österberg J, StrigÃ¥rd K, Thorell A, Gunnarsson U. BJS 2025; 112: znaf169. This multicenter RCT involving 192 patients with midline hernias undergoing laparoscopic…

😷#RCT: Effect of standard wound dressing versus prophylactic closed incision negative-pressure therapy on surgical-site infection after open incisional hernia repair
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💬 Small study, routine use of closed incision negative pressure therapy is not supported. - Jenny Moon #surgsky

BJS Academy Garfinkle R, Demian M, Sabboobeh S, Bhatnagar S, Savard J, Drolet S et al. Ann Surg 2025; 282: 361-370. Some 160 patients undergoing stoma closure after low anterior resection received either…

🏆 #RCT of the Month: A preventive care strategy to reduce moderate or severe acute kidney injury after major surgery (BigpAK-2); a multinational, randomised clinical trial
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🗨️ Patient-centred care boosts quality of life, even when bowel dysfunction persists. -Jenny Moon #surgsky

BJS Academy Strobel RM, Weimann A, Wobith M. BJS 2025; 112: znaf238.

🏥 Perioperative nutrition—ongoing challenges in the era of ERAS
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🗨️Screening tools for identification of high-risk patients, preoperative nutritional therapy if possible, encourage early oral feeding, consider supplementary enteral or parenteral nutrition... - Johanne Gormsen

BJS Academy ​ To collect clinical evidence to demonstrate the difference in trauma caused to the breast tissues due to current surgical practices. In the UK, 55,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every…

🏥 Perf-Act BreCon: A Prospective Case-control Study to Compare Tissue Perfusion between RetrActors and Non-retractors during Immediate Breast ReConstruction
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BJS Academy 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…

⚠️ Risk aware or risk averse?
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“I think we often fail our patients, particularly denying them operations that are not life-saving, so not seen as “necessary”, but where the quality of life for this person can be improved by surgery.” @doctorhelgi.bsky.social #surgsky #medsky

BJS Academy 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.…

🆕 Laparoscopic reduction of transverse colon and greater omentum from left chest, repair of giant para conduit/diaphragmatic hernia with mesh and colonopexy
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The BJS Foundation is delighted to announce a new educational scientific strategic partnership for 2026 with the International Federation for the Surgery and Other Therapies for Obesity.

We look forward to collaborating closely.🙌

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🏆ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: Surgical instruments: Kelly clamps
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This episode of our surgical instruments series has earned Article of the Month!

👏 Well done Dr Luis Felipe Cabrera Vargas and Dr Maria Diaz

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🏥 Decoding postoperative ileus
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🗨️Preventive strategies including minimally invasive surgery, enhanced recovery after surgery protocols and multimodal analgesia, importance of community-wide agreement on definitions. - Johanne Gormsen

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An essential read if you deal at all with radiologists.

Thanks @pmccoubrie.bsky.social & @bjsacademy.bsky.social

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BJS Academy Portrait of Andrew Jackson, 1856. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. In the public domain. Born in the Waxhaw District of South Carolina in 1767 to a…

🩺 Presidents under the knife: Andrew Jackson

Per-Olof Hasselgren explores Andrew Jackson's osteomyelitis.

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