Twelve of AOTrauma’s most experienced master surgeons will take participants on a “mini-fellowship". New surgical approaches, current treatment methods, and the management of complications will be addressed at a high level using real cases, encouraging open discussions between participants and faculty. Each instructor will present a difficult trauma scenario requiring in-depth investigation and preoperative planning, as well as operative intervention and rehabilitation. Instructors will guide participants through each step, sharing their philosophies on handling difficult trauma cases.

“The goal of the course is to demonstrate how senior AOTrauma surgeons collect data, plan ahead, use evidence-based medicine, and operationalize very tough clinical cases,” Buckley explains. “The cases will encompass twelve anatomical regions, so participants can really understand how various difficult fractures are solved.”

Long-term follow-up will be provided for each case to demonstrate how good decision making and rational use of evidence-based medicine can solve a difficult case.

The course is being chaired by Rick Buckley and Stefaan Nijs. The faculty consist of Michael Baumgaertner, Michael Blauth, Peter Cole, Jesse Jupiter, Mauricio Kfuri, Christian Krettek, Michael Miranda, Jong-Keon Oh, Christoph Sommer and David Volgas.