AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Fractures
The AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Fractures aims to create a clinically centered learning environment where the current principles and techniques of fracture management in children and adolescents are demonstrated, applied, and discussed.
This course is for traumatologists, orthopedic surgeons, and other surgeons who are actively engaged in pediatric fracture care and who want to enhance their level of expertise in this field. Ideally, participants have completed the AO Trauma Course—Basic Principles of Fracture Management and must be able to communicate well in English.
Why you should choose this course
Top national, regional, and international faculty
2-3 days in duration
For surgeons who already treat pediatric fractures
Network with colleagues from all over the world
CME credits
Target audience
- Pediatrics specialists early in their career
- Generalists (orthopedics) spending about 20 percent of their time on trauma (including community surgeons)
- Pediatrics experts
- Trauma surgeons
Course impressions
Competencies
The education taskforce has identified the following competencies for this area of practice:
- Recognize that the outcome of similar injury patterns varies with a child’s age and adapt treatment accordingly
- Manage relationships with patient and parents/relatives
- Establish the natural history and decide on a treatment strategy
- Assess the patient based on developmental status and make decisions based on available team/infrastructure
- Perform the chosen treatment procedure
- Perform and document short- and long-term follow-up; apply findings to decision making
- Diagnose and treat septic arthritis in a timely manner
- Recognize and address signs and patterns of nonaccidental injury
- Diagnose and treat slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Manage acquired and congenital deformity
- Manage pathological bone
- Recognize and stabilize the pediatric polytrauma patient
What does competency-based curriculum development mean?
Pediatrics education taskforce
Pedro Jorba (MX)
Term: 2022–2024
Tomohiro Matsumura (JP)
Term: 2023–2025
Khalid Khoshhal (SA)
Term: 2024 – 2026
See a full list of all regional program contributors and past international program editors.
“Our learners are constantly challenging us to be innovative and to develop more meaningful ways to share our expertise with them. This new AO Trauma pediatrics curriculum applies new learning approaches to impart the knowledge and skills they need to perform their best.”
Jonathan Dwyer, past member of the pediatrics education taskforce
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