Because the cycle of annual meetings of our sponsoring societies encompasses winter, spring and fall, the board has decided that the coeditors will select from residents' submissions to the Journal a group of outstanding manuscripts from which a panel will identify the best paper. Therefore, the importance of identifying residents who are first authors is evident. We had hoped to be able to incorporate a similar self-assessment section for orthopedics, but this has proven impossible for contractual reasons. The Canadian Orthopaedic Association has the self-assessment examination issue well in hand. It is of note that the CJS goes to all Canadian orthopedic residents.
Efforts are presently underway to find a means to send the journal to all general surgery residents.
It is our objective to put the CJS on the reading agenda of our residents by introducing them to it early on in their postgraduate training. I take this opportunity to wish all of you the very best for the Holiday Season and a glorious start to the next decade and millennium.