A Personal Case Study in Professional Development during the era
of transition from paper-based to digital academic publishing.

David Rew, MA MB MChir (Cambridge) FRCS (London) 

Introduction

The Editorship of an academic journal is a professional privilege, an intellectual challenge and an exercise in vision and leadership. Journal editors can call upon a wide range of published resources and some benefit from practical apprenticeships of serial promotion through the ranks of editorial roles and responsibilities, but relatively few benefit from a prolonged and systematic training in a very challenging and wide-ranging role.

My own career in academic (medical) journal editorship now spans three decades. From the mid 1990s to late 2002, I undertook an informal apprenticeship in Editorship of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO). From 2003 to 2009 I exercised the role of Editor in Chief of the EJSO.

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