The #EFORT2019 Congress will be the 20th EFORT Annual Congress!

The Congress will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 05 to 07 June 2019. The Main Theme of the congress will be Registries & Impact on Practice. The Highlights of the 2019 Congress will included, among many others, patient and implant selection, implant survival, prediction of outcome, valued based healthcare, revision rate, patient safety, quality improvement, patient reported outcome, patient involvement and much more!

Note: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED! |
More information: https://congress.efort.org/abstracts-information

• 20th EFORT Congress Lisbon 2019 website: https://www.efort.org/lisbon2019
• Preliminary Programme | Congress Highlights | Follow us! #EFORT2019

Join us in Lisbon for the 20th anniversary of the EFORT Congress!

EFORT  Webinar: ADULT SPINE DEFORMITY
Monday 19 November 2018 | 19:00-20:30 CET |
Register online: https://efortnet.conference2web.com/#!courses

This ‘Adult Spine Deformity’ Webinar will centre on sagittal alignment, classifications, surgical treatment, burden of disease and its objectives are:

• Demonstrating that harmonious spino-pelvic alignment is the key factor in asymptomatic subjects.
• Showing how classification of adolescent scoliosis is not useful in adult scoliosis and the need of specific classifications.
• Focusing the bridge between degenerative changes and sagittal/coronal deformity.
• Evaluating how important is the spinal alignment for hip surgeon.
• Overviewing the different options of surgical treatment  and if there is space for MIS.
• Discussing indication for surgery in this challenging conservative approach.

This free-of-charge Webinar is organised by the EFORT Orthopaedics Education Group independent of any commercial educational support.

Do not miss the opportunity & Register free-of-charge online now!

More information

• Faculty and scientific programme | (PDF document – 1 page – 485kb)
• Online registration (free-of-charge)
• EFORT e-Learning
• EOTEP – the European Orthopaedics & Traumatology Education Platform

The European Orthopaedic & Traumatology Education Platform (EOTEP)

A framework for educational structure

EOTEP proposes a new approach in the field of the lifelong learning for Orthopaedic & Traumatology Surgeons practicing in Europe and beyond. The EOTEP is a framework for educational structure emanating from:

• the development of the European Curriculum, including
• the reformulation of an EFORT educational pathway adapted to societal – political – professional changes, and
• aiming at a unified assessment mechanism through the current EBOT exam and harmonization in surgical training throughout Europe.

EFORT Basic Science and Research Online Course:  Your free-of-charge EOTEP online course !

This free-of-charge online course chaired by Prof. Enrique Gómez Barrena supports required basic and advanced knowledge, and skills for the orthopaedic community via 4 moduli covering:

• Study Design,
• Biology,
• Biomechanics and Biomaterials and
• Fundamentals of General Orthopaedic Science.

This course will allow residents and young specialists that require updated summarised concepts in orthopaedic basic science to prepare for exams (EBOT, national registration & other), but also  Orthopaedic surgeons that plan to enter research,  young specialists, residents or specialists planning to start or participate in projects, specialists screening new hypothesis to start new projects reviewing current state of the art and research opportunities. Successful attendance to the online course will be awarded with an EFORT certificate.

• More information: http://efortnet.conference2web.com/#!courses | www.efort.org/eotep

High quality instructional review articles on all aspects of orthopaedics and traumatology.

Breaking news! EFORT Open Reviews is now being indexed in PubMed with full-text provided in PubMedCentral (PMC).

EFORT Open Reviews (EOR) is the official journal of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) and is published  in partnership with the British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery (BESBJS), it and the British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery (BESBJS) and provides high quality instructional review articles on all aspects of orthopaedics and traumatology.

Authors are encouraged to submit their instructional review papers for publication in EFORT Open Reviews. All papers are subject to rigorous peer review by our expert panel of reviewers – please check the Manuscript Guidelines carefully before submitting your paper via our ScholarOne Manuscripts site.

More information

• Latest EOR issue: October 2018 – Volume 3 – Issue 10 | EOR Archives
• EFORT Open Reviews Website: www.efortopenreviews.org
• Submit your article for EFORT Open Reviews
• Register now to the EOR Email Alerts!
• EOR in PubMed

The November 2018 issue of OTE Orthopaedics Today Europe is now available!

OTE – Orthopaedic Today Europe is EFORT’s official newspaper that is now available in a new digital format since beginning of 2016, full HTML and with a mobile-optimized format that includes new monthly publications for our global readership.

Each issue provides the same editorial features and clinical news content you have come to expect for the last 19 years from Orthopaedics Today Europe. A cover story and commentary is still anchor each issue.

• EFORT Orthopaedic Today Europe newspaper – Volume 21 – Number 11 – November 2018
• Previous issues
• Subscribe to OTE