Academic Orthopaedic Consortium symposium encourages collaboration in orthopedics
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Key takeaways:
- Additional forums at the meeting may provide more opportunities for open discussion among attendees.
- Topics for discussion include value-based care, launching a new clinic, AI and virtual reality, and burnout.
Clinical and administrative leadership gather each year to discuss the latest topics in orthopedics, with a focus on the clinical, academic and research sectors, at the Academic Orthopaedic Consortium Business & Leadership Symposium.
This year’s symposium, which is being held from Sept. 26-28 in Nashville, Tennessee, will have topics ranging from value-based care, launching a new clinic, AI and virtual reality, and burnout.
“We usually have topics that surround what people can use so when they leave, they have tidbits and nuggets to help them implement or mentor somebody who needs that information,” Richard Capra, BA, president of Academic Orthopaedic Consortium (AOC) Connect and executive advisor for the University of California San Francisco, told Healio.
All about collaboration
Capra said the symposium this year includes more forums for department chairs, vice chairs and physician leaders to discuss topics of interest in orthopedics.
“I cannot wait for the open discussions because we never know what is going to be talked about and how some things are going to be addressed,” Capra said. “I love going to the chair discussions. They tend to be active, and we learn a lot.”
He added one goal of the symposium is to allow attendees ample time for discussion after a presentation “to let people ask questions about the specifics of it.”
“What did we do? How did we do it? ... What could have been done differently? That is how people learn, that is how we grow and that is how we collaborate across the United States,” Capra said. “That is what is special about this conference and about the AOC is we are not competitors. We are all here to assist one another.”
Capra said the collaborative mentality fostered by AOC Connect will help attendees come away feeling good “about providing these best practices [and] these mentorships.”
“Then you have the ones who are going to go home and have information to ... at least broach these subject matters to get them to be a better orthopedic practice, a broader orthopedic practice or a higher-quality or more efficient orthopedic practice,” he said.
Growth in attendance
Historically, the symposium was attended by chief administrative officers but has grown to include leaders such as department chairs, physician leaders, vice chairs, education chairs and research chairs, according to Capra. For the meeting this year, Capra said there will be more physician leaders in attendance.
“They are usually coming for one of two reasons: They have this great suggestion that they want people to know about or they are in need of having that information so they can start something new at their site,” Capra said.
He added that the symposium has expanded to include athletic trainers and professionals in orthotics and prosthetics.
“As we grow and we get more specific into topics that are important for orthopedics, with that big generalization of orthopedics, more people are starting to come that are specific in their roles, but they are coming for the same reasons,” Capra said.
Richard Capra, BA, of the Academic Orthopaedic Consortium and the University of California San Francisco, can be reached at richard@aoc-ortho.com.
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