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Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2008 to feature audience and faculty interaction
Attendees can also meet with faculty after sessions during daily 'Banyan Tree' gatherings.
Set in a breathtaking tropical locale, Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2008 will offer the latest in surgical techniques and practice management issues through an interactive learning experience.
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"This is a very practical course," Orthopedics Today Chief Medical Editor and Course Director, Douglas W. Jackson, MD, said. "It is a current course ... the topics were selected for what orthopedic surgeons are actually seeing and treating in their practice."
Business track
The 4-day course will take place Jan. 13-16, 2008. It consists of half-day sessions that offer some down time or opportunities to discuss cases or topics raised during the presentations one-on-one with the faculty "under the Banyan Tree."
The first day is devoted to practice management. During it, attendees can expect to discuss methods to improve the efficiency of their practices and legal issues confronting orthopedists in the upcoming year, the course section chair and Orthopedics Today section editor, Jack M. Bert, MD, said. Presenters will also cover hot topics such as ambulatory surgical centers and the effects of changes to the Stark law. "We also have a special guest, John D. Kelly IV, MD, who will talk about the stresses of orthopedics and how to manage them," Bert said.
Clinical tracks
For the remainder of the meeting, participants can choose between the Total Joint and Sports Medicine tracks. Discussions in the Sports Medicine Track will focus on the latest in ACL and PCL reconstruction techniques and success rates with arthroscopic rotator cuff and stabilization procedures.
Panelists in the Total Joint Track will highlight articular cartilage issues and lead discussions on controversies in total hip and total knee arthroplasty. "I'm personally going to be talking about the possibility of arthroscopically assisted unicompartmental replacement, which is a new technology," Bert said.
During the course, attendees will have continuous access to faculty in and outside of the meeting hall.
"That's a key part to this course," Jackson said. "It is quite an interactive program." Using keypad technology, session moderators will be able to ask the audience questions and project their tabulated responses on a large screen.
At the conclusion of the course, attendees will also have the opportunity to join Jackson on a hike of Haleakala, the 10,023-foot summit of Maui's volcano.
"It's about a 12-mile hike that goes down into the crater in a very lunar-like environment," Jackson said. He said that all attendees are welcome and encouraged to bring significant others or teenage children.
"It takes a moderate degree of conditioning, and it can be done in tennis shoes or hiking shoes," Jackson said.
For more information:
- For more information on this meeting, contact the Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2008 meeting registration department at MeetingRegistration@VindicoMedEd.com, or 877-307-5225, or visit ORTHOSuperSite.com/Hawaii, or www.westinmaui.com.