BJJ for Surgeons?

[OperationOverlord]

I am currently a first year Plastic Surgery resident. I trained jiu-jitsu for one month during my third year of medical school. I loved training but suffered a shoulder injury during the end of my first month and did not return once healed due to fears of injuring one of my hands and potentially ruining my career. I now want to resume training but cannot bring myself to do it due to fear of injuring one of my upper extremities. My question is should surgeons train jiu-jitsu given injury risk and if not what options do I have for self defense training? 

[mynewunit]

There are lots of reasons to modify BJJ. Understand, you have more control than you think. You can have say in training partners, activities and general guidance.
The thing that is the hardest would be to go to a BJJ gym and only warm up and drill. This gets boring and competitive which leads to Randori or rolling. If you can turn off that reflex you should greatly reduce your risk of injury. Just learn and drill and you should have less risk than the normal surgeon sports of golf and tennis.