Description
Future orthopaedic surgeons conference (FOSC) is an international trauma and orthopaedic surgery conference aimed solely at medical students and junior doctors.
Now in its tenth year at the Royal Society of Medicine, FOSC continues to bring the latest updates on orthopaedic training, selection and cutting edge practical workshops.
There will be a range of expert-led talks covering the national selection process, the training pathway, tips to get ahead, and many overviews of the various subspecialties available.
The afternoon session will be a practical skills workshops in Orthopaedic Surgery. This will give all delegates the opportunity to get hands on with a variety of orthopaedic procedures including plating, external fixation, and DHS!
In addition, delegates will get the chance to enter our National poster presentation prize. We are accepting abstracts for our poster competition with the prize winner announced on the day. More information on this will follow shortly.
topics include:
How to prepare yourself for specialty training and a career in orthopaedics
Discover more about each of the orthopaedic subspecialties
Practical experience in a range of orthopaedic techniques
key speakers:
Professor Tim Briggs CBE, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London
Mr Chinmay Gupte, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in knee and trauma surgery at Imperial College, London
Mr Simon Fleming, Past President for the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association (BOTA), and Specialist Registrar for Percivall Pott Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery Rotation
Professor Ashley Blom, Orthopaedic Surgeon at Spire Bristol Hospital
Professor Lennard Funk, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Shoulder and Upper Limb Specialist at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Bob Chatterjee, Consultant Spinal Surgeon at Harley Street Spine, London
Miss Kuldeep Stohr, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
fosc poster prize
Don’t forget to enter the FOSC Poster Prize!
The abstract submission deadline is 14th October 2018.
For more details on how to enter, please click here.
* Following registration you will be contacted appropriately by email with; your booking confirmation, feedback survey and attendance certificate. For full details of the RSM privacy policy, click here
agenda
7.50 am
Registration, tea and coffee
8.20 am
Welcome and introduction
Dr Gareth Davies, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust
MORNING MEETING
8.30 am
Training, selection and jobs
Professor Tim Briggs, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Director of Strategy and External Affairs, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
9.00 am
Knee surgery
9.30 am
Academic orthopaedics
Professor Andrew Carr, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford
10.00 am
Hip surgery and innovation
Professor Lennard Funk, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Shoulder and Upper Limb Specialist, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 am
Tea and coffee break with poster exhibition
11.00 am
Changing the culture in Orthopaedico
Mr Simon Fleming, Past-President, British Orthopaedic Trainees’ Association
11.30 am
Role of the British Orthopaedic Trainees’ Association (BOTA)
Mr Matt Brown, Specialist Registrar, Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
12.00 pm
Life of a registrar
12.30 pm
Orthopaedics abroad
Mr Derek Park, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore
1.00 pm
Spinal surgery
1.30 pm
Paediatric orthopaedic surgery
Miss Kuldeep Stohr, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2.00 pm
Lunch and poster exhibition
AFTERNOON PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS
3.00 pm
Workshop rotation one
4.00 pm
Workshop rotation two
5.00 pm
Workshop rotation three
6.00 pm
Close of meeting