Event Details
AO Trauma NA Hand Fellow and Chief Resident Hand Surgery Course: Preparing for Hand Fellowship and Beyond
San Diego, California, USA
Course Description:
The purpose of this advanced AO course is to prepare trainees to begin a hand surgery fellowship and current hand fellows to launch into practice. Didactic sessions and cadaver labs for the pre-fellowship trainees will review key concepts and skills needed for hand surgery fellowship, while separate post-fellowship didactics and hands-on offerings will be focused on advanced clinical scenarios, surgical skills and practice management concepts. There will be opportunity for mentorship between trainee levels and for future AO faculty recruitment amongst the post-fellowship attendees.
Course Content:
Pre-fellowship program covers a wide range of topics, including:
- Didactic lectures on management of wrist and hand injuries with cases discussions
- Key concepts and principles in replantation/revascularization and management of soft tissue injuries
- Pearls for maximizing the fellowship year and contract negotiations for different job models
- All day cadaver lab covering soft tissue flaps from elbow to fingertips, distal radius and scaphoid approaches, and small joint arthroplasty
- Engaging faculty debates on various controversial topics in hand surgery
Post-fellowship topics will include:
- Algorithm and options for treatment of failed trigger finger, failed carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel, as well as failed flexor and extensor tendon surgeries
- Algorithm and principles for management of failed distal radius treatment, distal radius malunion, thumb CMC surgery, and DRUJ instability
- Pearls for preparing for boards and building your clinical team, as well as work-life balance
- All day cadaver lab covering soft tissue flaps from elbow to fingertips, distal radius and scaphoid approaches, and small joint arthroplasty
- Engaging faculty debates on various controversial topics in hand surgery
Target Audience:
Enrollment in this course is open to chief residents who anticipate a career in hand surgery and to current hand surgery fellows.
Tuition:
Level Name: Participant - HandPricing Tier: Fellow
Tuition: $1,050.00
Level Name: Participant - Orthopaedic
Pricing Tier: Resident
Tuition: $1,050.00
Course Prerequisite(s):
No PrerequisitesLanguage(s):
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Professional Level Prerequisite(s):
- Residency Year 4
- Residency Year 5
- Residency Year 6
- Residency Year 7
- Residency Year 8
- Fellow
Continuing Education Credit: 21.75
AO North America is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement - AO North America designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 21.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Expected results of AONA's CME activities for surgeons, fellows, and residents are to:
• Increase their knowledge base and surgical skill level
• Improve competence by applying advances of knowledge in patient care in the areas of trauma, degenerative disorders, deformities, tumors, and reconstructive surgical techniques
• Address practice performance gaps by improving management of aspects of traumatic injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (i.e., pre-operative planning to post-operative care)
- Identify the fracture parameters that influence fixation and arthroplasty options for fractures
- Combine fracture reduction and fixation principles with anatomic exposure
- Utilize the AO Principles of fracture fixation considering the soft-tissue restraints
- Analyze soft tissue defects and create coverage strategies for each defect
- Identify and evaluate nerve deficits – evaluate and learn strategies for reconstruction with various techniques
Jain, Sonu - Co-Chairperson
Rizzo, Marco - Evaluator
Bamberger, Brent - Lecturer
Dennison, David - Lecturer
Dionysian, Emil - Lecturer
Dutton, Lauren - Lecturer
Fillmore, Amanda - Lecturer
Gupta, Amit - Lecturer
Hinchcliff, Kate - Lecturer
Mezera, Kimberly - Lecturer
Recor, Carol - Lecturer
Speeckaert, Amy - Lecturer
Wu, Kitty - Lecturer
Zelenski, Nicole - Lecturer
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Some medical devices used for teaching purposes and/or discussed in AO North America’s educational activities may have been cleared by the FDA for specific uses only or may not yet be approved for any purpose. Faculty may discuss off-label, investigational, or experimental uses of products/devices in CME certified educational activities. Faculty have been advised that all recommendations involving clinical medicine in this CME activity are based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.
All scientific research referred to, reported or used in this CME activity in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis.
AONA does not endorse nor promote the use of any product/device of commercial entities. Equipment used in this course is for teaching purposes only with the intent to enhance the learning experience.
The certificate provided pertains only to the participants’ completion of the course.
Educational Grant
AO North America gratefully acknowledges funding for its education activities from the AO Foundation. The AO Foundation receives funding for education from Synthes GmbH.