The 2021 Virtual Academic Surgery Conference (VASC) was held virtually on March 27th 2021. Twelve abstracts were selected for presentation at the conference and eight of those have been submitted for publication in the conference proceedings, published by the Cambridge Medicine Journal.

The Building Bridges in Medical Science 2021 Conference was held virtually on March 6th, 2021. Abstracts were judged by panel consisting of representatives from both the BBMS Organising Committee and the Cambridge Medicine Journal. A selection of abstracts are included in this set of conference proceedings, published by the Cambridge Medicine Journal.