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EFORT Fora 2014
03 October 2014 | SOTA Congress in Belgrade, Serbia
Challenges in the treatment of young patients hip diseases
03 October 2014 | HAOST Congress in Athens, Greece
Young arthritic knee
09 October 2014 | SECOT Congress in Madrid, Spain
Controversies in pediatric orthopaedic trauma
17 October 2014 | BRSMTOS Congress in Minsk, Belarus
Complications of proximal femoral fracture fixation
24 October 2014 | SPOT Congress in Algarve, Portugal
Foot and ankle arthroscopic forum
08 November 2014 | CAOST Congress in Limassol, Cyprus
Soft tissue injuries of the shoulder
13 November 2014 | SOFCOT Congress in Paris, France
Social and economic value of orthopaedic surgery
22 November 2014 | SIOT Congress in Rome, Italy
Severe lower extremity fractures: Limb salvage or amputation?
EFORT Fora, the background
The project called EFORT Fora, launched in 2002 at the DGOOC Congress in Berlin, aims to organize specific EFORT symposia during the annual congresses of our National Member Societies.
The initial idea was to choose one topic for several events, e.g. thromboprophylaxis, and let European experts from various countries discuss it to clarify different European criteria and arrive at new standards. The concept was well accepted, but the problem was to find European speakers ready to deal with the same topic during numerous events. On the other hand, the national expectations from such symposia were distinct from country to country.
Consequently, EFORT changed the format of the project and organized these European Fora on specific unrelated topics that were embedded in the topics highlighted in each national congress program.
Today, under the supervision of our Fora Chair, Prof. Thierry Bégué, from Paris, EFORT organizes about 10 European Fora each year. We plan to provide updates this way on a variety of hot topics within orthopaedics and traumatology.
EFORT National Member Societies are free to choose a topic and propose a 2 hours to 4 hour session during their yearly congress. Half of the speakers come from the organizing National Society and the other half are appointed by EFORT from other European countries.
In recent years the EFORT Fora have enjoyed a high level of scientific content and provided an excellent exchange between National Societies and EFORT. Accordingly, the interest in such Fora programs has grown markedly.
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