BJJ News | I ssue 8 | S eptember 2015
5th SICOT Educational Day - Programme
The 5th SICOT Educational Day Venue: Baiyun International Convention Centre, Guangzhou, China Date: Wednesday, 16th of September 2015 Theme: Wrist & Hand, Spine Chairman: Mr. Vikas Khanduja, Cambridge, UK
Fig. 3 Programme for the Educational Day in Guangzhou, 2015
on case-based discussions have been introduced to ensure audience participation and have been very popular. Dedicated teachers, a mixture of the younger and the older generation from around the globe, are bought together to lecture on their area of expertise. The aim is to try and get as much global participation as possible and also have a couple of key opinion leaders lecturing on the day. Along with this, we ensure that we have at least four to six members from the local faculty contributing to the course. This enhances local participation especially at the level of residents. There have been four such educational days so far (Table 1) and the response to these has been overwhelming with excellent feedback. Over 200 delegates attended the event at the last SICOT congress in Rio. The popularity of these days has ensured that this has now become a regular event at each SICOT congress and a separate Educational Day Committee has been formed to ensure that the event runs smoothly. The members of the Committee are dedicated educationalists from around the world and include Dr Emmanuel Audenaert from Belgium, Dr Eric Tortosa from Panama, Dr Peter Yau from Hong Kong, Professor Mandeep Dhillon and Professor Ashok Johari from India and Prof.essor Patricia Fucs from Brazil.
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The Future It is a challenging task to provide comprehensive and focussed orthopaedic education for a group of international surgeons at different stages of their career. However, the popularity of the event indicates that it is hitting the right note! Plans are afloat to further improve the educational content of this course and efforts are being made to include surgical techniques in the form of videos and hands-on workshops for future meetings. The themes for the forthcoming SICOT meeting in Guangzhou, China are ‘Hand & Wrist’ and ‘Spine’ and the day will focus on all the elements of hand, wrist and spine surgery from the anatomy and surgical approaches to discussion of complex cases. Dedicated faculty along with key opinion leaders from over 15 countries will be lecturing on the course. The members of the educational day committee have worked extremely hard to produce a well-balanced and interesting programme. So, if you wish to learn, share, debate and discuss ideas and surgical techniques in an exciting environment with a group of international surgeons in one room, the Educational Day in Guangzhou is the place for you. We look forward to seeing you there!