All abstracts submitted for our upcoming 21st EFORT Congress are currently under review. This process is performed as a blind scoring carried out exclusively through our online scientific platform from mid-November to mid-December 2019. Following completion of the scoring, the EFORT Science Committee allocates the best-scored abstracts to oral and poster sessions. Any specific query regarding changes in abstracts needs to be addressed by email to scicom@efort.org Abstract acceptance & rejection notifications will be sent on Friday 31 January 2020.

For more information consult our congress website: https://congress.efort.org/abstracts-information

The online registration for the EFORT congress Vienna 2020 will open on 08 January 2020

More information:

• EFORT congress 2020 website: https://www.efort.org/vienna2020
• Call for abstracts & first announcement | PDF document | 12 pages | 3.6Mb
• Preliminary Congress Schedule
• Follow us! #EFORT2020

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 last 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 12 | December 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