About Chirurgie up2date

Chirurgie up2date

Chirurgie up2date — officially "Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie up2date" — is the Stuttgart continuing-education journal for general and visceral surgeons, published by the Georg Thieme Verlag. "Praxisnahe Fort- und Weiterbildung mit strukturiertem Curriculum und didaktisch aufbereiteten CME-Beiträgen" (practice-oriented continuing education with structured curriculum and didactically prepared CME articles): four issues a year, each with four certified CME articles — 48 CME points a year, 250,000 total uses a year. The guideline-compliant articles, written by experts, systematically cover the specialty: the complete package for learning and reference.

Overview

The journal serves the surgeons: the general and visceral surgeons in hospitals and practices, the residents in training, the board-certified specialists maintaining their CME. The quarterly rhythm — four issues a year — follows the curriculum: the up2date curriculum guaranteeing the gapless coverage of all the specialty's topics. Each issue delivers the certified CME articles (four per issue), the practice-oriented SOPs (standard operating procedures), the step-by-step instructions, and the international-study summaries.

The CME system — the journal's professional context — deserves its telling. The continuous medical education — the German physicians' duty (the 250 CME points in five years for the office-based, the hospital's requirements) — drives the demand: the certified articles, the points. The up2date curriculum — the structured syllabus — guarantees the systematic coverage: the specialty's topics, gapless. The didactic preparation — the Fazit, the Merksätze, the Fallbeispiele — respects the learners: the busy surgeons, the efficient learning. The peer review — the experts' scrutiny — secures the evidence: the guideline compliance, the quality. The 250,000 total uses a year — the journal's reach — documents the acceptance: the surgeons learning, the points earning. The Thieme's CME platform — the cme.thieme.de — administers the tests: the online assessment, the certificates. The peer review — all CME articles passing the review — secures the quality: the evidence-based, guideline-compliant content. The thieme-connect.com platform — the e-journals — delivers the digital: the abstracts, the issues, the CME tests.

History

The journal launched in 2007 — "Allgemeine und Viszeralchirurgie up2date" as the new specialist journal delivering certified continuing education for general and visceral surgery, published six times a year by the Georg Thieme Verlag (Stuttgart). The up2date family — the Thieme's CME series — deserves its telling. The Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie up2date — the orthopedics and trauma surgery (Volume 21, February 2026) — covers the sister specialty: the SOPs, the step-by-steps, the basics, the pediatric, the law. The Augenheilkunde up2date — the ophthalmology (the cataract and refractive surgery: the issues 2022–2025) — serves the eye surgeons: the techniques, the lenses. The Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie up2date — the general and visceral surgery — anchors the family: the abdominal surgery's CME. The shared concept — the structured curricula, the four certified articles per issue, the didactic preparation — unites the titles: the Thieme's CME brand. The e-journals platform — the thieme-connect.com — hosts the family: the DOIs, the abstracts, the issues — the digital CME library. The current rhythm — four issues a year — concentrates the content: the complete package, sustainable for learning and reference.

The Thieme house — the medical publishing context — deserves its telling. The Georg Thieme Verlag KG (Stuttgart · New York) — the medical and scientific publisher — publishes the journals, the books, the e-learning: the physicians' knowledge. The German medical publishing — the Thieme, the Springer Medizin, the Deutscher Ärzteverlag — serves the profession: the journals, the CME, the guidelines. The e-journals platform — the thieme-connect.com — digitizes the program: the DOIs, the abstracts, the issues, the tests. The manuscript submission — the "Manuskript einreichen" — invites the authors: the experts' contributions. The free trial — the "Kostenlos testen" — recruits the readers: the discovery. The journal's role — the CME's print anchor — complements the digital: the quarterly depth, the daily currency — the Thieme's continuing-education ecosystem. The journal's DOI — 10.1055/s-00000147; the print ISSN 1611-6437, the online ISSN 1611-6461 — marks the bibliographic identity. The professional societies' cooperation — the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie, the Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgen — embeds the journal: the specialty's voice.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the up2date curriculum. The visceral surgery's topics — the specialty's breadth — deserve their telling. The abdominal surgery — the general and visceral surgery's core — spans the organs: the esophagus, the stomach, the liver, the gallbladder, the pancreas, the intestines, the hernias. The transplantation — the kidney transplantation (the 2026 CME article: the techniques, the immunosuppression) — represents the peak: the interdisciplinary, the high-stakes. The oncology — the gallbladder carcinoma's resection techniques (the comparison) — treats the cancer surgery: the radicality, the evidence. The emergency — the acute abdomen, the trauma — demands the readiness: the decisions, the speed. The minimally invasive — the laparoscopy, the robotics — transforms the access: the smaller incisions, the faster recovery. The journal's curriculum — the systematic coverage — ensures the breadth: the residents' training, the specialists' update — the specialty's complete knowledge, quarterly. The SOPs — the standard operating procedures and workflows — give the practice: the implant choice in proximal femur fracture, the standardized processes. The step-by-step instructions — the surgical techniques — teach the craft: the illustrated procedures.

The basics — the fundamentals (the shoulder examination techniques: Vetter/Scheibel) — serve the training: the residents' knowledge. The pediatric coverage — the pediatric orthopedics and trauma surgery (the childhood coxitis, the rheumatism in children) — treats the young: the specialties. The law-and-assessment coverage — the clinical studies (what matters), the expert opinions — addresses the legal: the quality assurance, the CQS (the surgical quality seal as the feedback instrument). The study abstracts — the international studies' summaries — keep current: the evidence.

Organization and Ownership

Chirurgie up2date (Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie up2date) is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart · New York. The journal's profile — the thieme.de page — documents the facts: the four issues a year, the 48 CME points, the 250,000 uses. The media data — the thieme-media PDF — sells the advertising: the surgeons' attention. The business model follows the medical-publishing pattern: the subscriptions (the institutions, the individuals), the CME fees, the advertising (the medical-technology and pharmaceutical industries).

The editorial — the specialty's professors and practitioners as the authors and reviewers — carries the quality: the peer review, the guideline compliance. The young surgeons' voice — the career focus — deserves its telling. The Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junge Chirurgen (the young surgeons' working group, within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie) — advocates the trainees' and young specialists' interests: the "strukturierte Weiterbildung" (structured training) and the "lebenswerte Chirurgie" (livable surgery). The projects and concepts — the working group's initiatives — invite the participation: the shaping, the co-design. The journal's career rubric — the "Fokus Karriere" — voices the generation: the training conditions, the work-life balance, the perspectives. The quality seal — the CQS (chirurgisches Qualitätssiegel) — offers the individualized feedback: the entry into the personalized continuing education. The Goethe quote — the physician's lifelong formation ("Herz und Hand, Verstand und Charakter") — frames the ethos: the whole physician for the whole patient — the journal's humanistic underpinning. Detailed staff and revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is thieme-connect.com — the Thieme E-Journals: the abstracts (the DOI-linked articles), the issues (the current and archived), the CME tests (the cme.thieme.de). The thieme.de — the publisher's portal — presents the journal: the profile, the subscription, the manuscript submission ("Manuskript einreichen"), the free trial ("Kostenlos testen"). The media data — the thieme-media PDF — documents the advertising: the formats, the reach.

The digital strategy follows the medical-publishing logic: the print quarterly for the deep CME coverage — the certified articles, the SOPs, the step-by-steps — the e-journals for the abstracts, the tests, and the archive. As the general and visceral surgeons' CME journal — the Thieme's up2date title, published from Stuttgart — Chirurgie up2date remains the specialty's companion: the practice-oriented continuing education — four issues a year, 48 CME points, in print and on thieme-connect.com.