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This year’s congress taking place in London, from June 4 to 6, has patient safety as its overarching theme. This focus addresses the growing complexity in orthopaedic procedures. Patient safety has also become a critical issue due to greater mobility in the medical profession across Europe while standards of training in orthopaedics are still not uniform. Patient safety was identified by the WHO as a serious global public health issue in 2002, after a study estimated that in developed countries as many as one in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care.
“It is our aim to deliver the best educational sessions to improve orthopaedic health care in Europe in order to meet the increasing expectations of an ageing population that wants to maintain an active life during retirement,” says Manuel Cassiano-Neves, MD, MSc.
For the second time in the maturation of EFORT, the EFORT Congress in London will be a combined meeting with a National Society, in this instance the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA). Unique to this meeting will be the incorporation to the scientific program of the BOA’s own cyclical education and their plenary lectures which will be open to all Congress participants.
The BOA will hold special sessions on its revalidation program designed to ensure surgeons are up-to-date and which should serve as a model for Europe. In the U.K., revalidation now means it is compulsory for all surgeons to acquire an annual quota of continuing professional development (CPD) that is relevant to their practice, with the Royal College and Specialty Association recommendation being that 20 hours of it is from attendance at relevant external meetings. The range and depth of sessions at the EFORT Congress means these external requirements for the entire year can be met almost in their entirety at this one meeting, no matter the subspecialty branch of trauma and orthopaedics the delegate practices.
Besides the EFORT Honorary Lectures, the Erwin Morscher and Michael Freeman lectures, given respectively by Prof. Pietro Ruggieri and Stuart Weinstein, MD, the BOA will hold the King James IV Lecture, which has been awarded to Prof. H. Simpson from Edinburgh. The other plenaries not to be missed are the BOA Robert Jones and BOA Presidential Guest Lectures.
This year’s guest nation will be represented by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), which will further enrich the scientific program. AAOS has a long history of cooperation with EFORT and the European orthopaedic community. In 2012, the AAOS Board of Directors graciously accepted the invitation from EFORT to serve as the 2014 Guest Nation in London. When accepting the invitation to be EFORT’s guest nation in 2014, then President John Tongue said, “We are honored to be welcomed to London and to share the meeting with our colleagues and friends from Europe.”
After its success in Istanbul, another full-day session on “Advances in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement” will be held in London. It will feature the latest approaches to reconstruction of the hip and knee in adults. EFORT, the European Hip Society (EHS) and the European Knee Associates (EKA) have appointed a panel of recognized European experts with a great breadth and depth of experience in total hip and knee replacement. The aim of the course is to provide younger joint replacement specialists and more experienced senior consultants alike with an update on the latest in techniques and treatments.
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