AANA debuts 3-day, procedure-specific arthroscopy skills course
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Key takeaways:
- The Arthroscopy Association of North America debuted the Advanced Procedure-Specific Knee and Shoulder Course.
- The 3-day surgical skills course connected attendees with master faculty in arthroscopic surgery.
The Arthroscopy Association of North America debuted the Advanced Procedure-Specific Knee and Shoulder Course, a 3-day surgical skills acquisition course that connected attendees with master faculty in arthroscopic surgery.
The 3-day course offered attendees the opportunity to participate in three lab sessions, each 4.5 hours in duration, guided by master faculty and former leadership members at AANA, according to a press release.
“John D. Kelly IV, MD, chair of the AANA Learning Center , tasked Nick Sgaglione, MD, and I with ‘thinking outside the box’ and redefining what a skills course should provide,” Richard K.N. Ryu, MD, orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, co-chair of the Advanced Procedure-Specific Knee and Shoulder Course and past president of AANA, told Healio.
“Many of us in practice are aware of newer operations and techniques that are being implemented, but we have not had an opportunity in training or otherwise to master them without placing patients at risk,” Ryu said. “This unique course allowed surgeons to address specific gaps in their skill level with a highly personalized experience in which attendees had their own goals met successfully,” he added.
Attendees were given the choice to practice more than 60 specific arthroscopic procedures in the knee, shoulder or a combination of both. Common procedures included scope-assisted lower trapezius transfer, bridge-enhanced ACL repair, trochleopasty, glenoid reconstruction with distal tibial allograft, open and arthroscopic Latarjet, autograft and allograft resurfacing, all-inside quadriceps ACL reconstruction and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty, according to the release.
“This course represents AANA’s unswerving commitment to being the vanguard in surgical skills training,” Ryu said. “This new concept of procedure-specific learning, driven by the needs of the attendees, will be the new foundation on which surgeons will be educated worldwide,” he concluded.
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