Abstract submission for our upcoming 21st EFORT Congress to be held in Vienna, Austria from 10-12 June 2020 has been extended until Tuesday 19 November 2019, 11:59 CET. Abstracts must correspond to previously unpublished work. Only electronic submissions through our scientific platform will be considered. Please consult the complete guidelines for abstract submission on our congress website: https://congress.efort.org/abstracts-information

More information:

• EFORT congress 2019 website: https://www.efort.org/vienna2020
• Call for abstracts & first announcement (PDF document | 12 pages | 3.6Mb)
• Preliminary Congress Schedule
• Follow us! #EFORT2020

EFORT Webinar | SEQUELAE OF CALCANEAL FRACTURES
Monday 28 October | 19:00-20:00 CET | Free-of-charge online registration

This webinar will address the following topics:

• Approaches.
• Diagnosing and treating sequelae.
• Managing severe deformities: varus and loss of height, malunited fracture-dislocations.
• Limits to joint preservation.

Free-of-charge online registration coming soon!

This Webinar was organised by the EFORT Orthopaedic Education Group independent of any commercial educational support and hosted by M-Events.

More information:

• Scientific programme & related assets | (PDF document – 2 pages – 175kb)
• EFORT e-Learning: https://www.efort.org/elearning/

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 2019 – Volume 4 – Issue 11 | 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 2019 issue of OTE 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 22 | Number 11 | November 2019
• Previous issues
• Subscribe to OTE

Upcoming call for candidates to enter Expert Panel in the Medical Device Regulation process

The European Commission has shared the announcement of its call for clinical experts to participate in expert panels on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic devices. The call will be published later this year.

We encourage EFORT’s members to identify candidates to enter Expert Panels in the Medical Device Regulation and prepare for the European Commission call.

More information:

• EFORT position paper (PDF Document | 2 pages | 200kb)
• European Commission Experts Panels on Medical Devices and in Vitro Diagnostic Devices
• European Commission Flyer: Call for clinical and other experts to be published later in 2019 (PDF document | 1 page | 1 Mb)