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Volume 5 | Number 10 | December 2025

Season's Greetings & A Look Ahead to EFORT Málaga 2026!

As the year draws to a close, the entire EFORT community extends our warmest wishes for a joyful festive season and a prosperous New Year! We hope your holidays are filled with warmth, rest, and wonderful moments with your loved ones.

As we pause to celebrate and reflect, we also look forward with great excitement to the future of orthopaedics. This commitment to progress is captured in the theme of the 27th EFORT Annual Congress, which will take place in the stunning setting of Málaga, Spain, from Monday 04 to Wednesday 06 May 2026.

The Congress will highlight “Innovations and Transdisciplinarity in the Orthopaedic Future,” reinforcing EFORT’s role as the largest European platform for advancing science through collaboration and shared expertise. 

Join us to explore new scientific data, discover the latest trends in clinical practice, and engage in meaningful dialogue with experts from around the globe.

Your New Year’s Resolution Checklist? To help ensure your planning for 2026 is seamless, we encourage you to finalize two important steps now:

Online Registration is Open! Secure your attendance early to benefit from preferential rates and join us in Málaga.

Book Your Stay Early! Málaga is a vibrant tourist destination, and accommodation is expected to fill up quickly. To guarantee a smooth and comfortable stay, we strongly recommend securing your hotel booking as early as possible.

Join us in Málaga in earlier May 2026 to take part in shaping the future of orthopaedics. Until then, have a wonderful holiday season!

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EFORT OPEN REVIEWS

High-quality instructional peer-reviewed articles across 
the entire field of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

LATEST ARTICLES

Surgical treatment as a key determinant of outcome in phosphaturic mesenchymal tumors of the bone and soft tissue: a systematic review and case series

Author(s): Julian P Maier, Moritz A Krapohl, Georg W Herget, Kilian Reising, Hannah Füllgraf, Peter Bronsert, David Braig, and Hagen Schmal

EOR VOL.10, N° 11, NOVEMBER 2025

Removal or retention: evolving views on possible roles of the subacromial bursa in rotator cuff disease

Author(s): Yetian Ma, Wenwei Jiang, Pingkang Qian, and Jiong Jiong Guo

Biplanar radiographic analysis of knee alignment: a stepwise approach for phenotype classification and knee arthroplasty planning

Author(s): Matthieu Lalevee, Floris Van Rooij, Mo Saffarini, Luca Nover, Alexis Nogier, and Philippe Beaudet

Comparative outcomes of internal fixation versus prosthetic reconstruction in the treatment of proximal femoral metastases: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author(s): Jonas Eck, Guido Schwarzer, Andreas Frodl, Andreas Fuchs, Tayfun Yilmaz, Hagen Schmal, Kaywan Izadpanah, and Markus Siegel

EFORT e-Learning
Save the date for the upcoming EFORT Educational Webinar!

EFORT WEBINAR SERIES 2025 | NINE WEBINARS TO REMEMBER

EFORT Educational Webinar Series Success: Concluding a Record-Breaking 2025 and Launching 2026!

We are delighted to report the successful conclusion of the EFORT Educational Webinar Series 2025, which ran monthly from January to June and September to November.

We celebrated a significant milestone with over 7,500 registered participants throughout the 9 webinars organised by the EFORT Education Committee Working Groups on Orthopaedics (3), Traumatology (3) and Basic Research (3), held in 2026!

The final session, Cell-free products in OA: secretome, EVs and exosomes, delivered vital, cutting-edge insights into musculoskeletal regeneration last Monday 24 November, and was chaired by Prof. Laura DE GIROLAMO, PhD  | Director of REGAIN - REgenerative GAleazzi INstitute | Milan, Italy. 

For those who missed it, the REPLAY of this final session is available now for all registrants.

The learning and exchange of knowledge continue in 2026! 

Mark your calendar for the launch of the EFORT Educational Webinar 2026 series on Monday 26 January 2026 at 19:00 CET. The first session, focusing on trauma, will focus on Innovation on Fracture-Related Infection (FRI) and will be chaired by Prof. Vicenzo SALINI from the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele di Milano in Italy.

This Webinar is organised by EFORT independent of any commercial educational support.

EFORT WEBINAR REPLAY AVAILABLE!

This joint initiative from UEMS and EFORT in education result in a high-quality European Examination for Orthopaedics and Traumatology Surgeons in Europe and beyond.

The EBOT Exam consists in a two-part examination: a written exam held in the different examination centres in Europe and as proctored online exam and a presential oral exam.

As per 2025, EBOT proposes its oral examination in four different languages thanks to its close cooperation with the national orthopaedic societies.

The last EBOT oral exam of the year was the oral exam in Spanish organised in Madrid on 22 and 23 November 2025. Thanks to the outstanding work of EFORT member society SECOT, this oral examination was a success. We would like to congratulate the successful candidates who have joined the network of Fellows of the European Board of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.

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EFORT European Activities Updates

EFORT: Advocating for Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the EU Level

EFORT actively collaborates with EU policymakers directly or through the Biomedical Alliance, to ensure the orthopaedic and trauma community's voice is heard in shaping healthcare and research policies. Through evidence-based proposals, partnerships, and involvement in EU-funded projects and expert committees, EFORT contributes to key initiatives like the Medical Device Regulation and Continuing Medical Education.

The EFORT Committee on European Affairs plays a vital role in monitoring EU developments, fostering collaboration, and positioning our organisation as a key partner in addressing Europe’s health and Research challenges. It conveys concerns and expectations of national associations to European decision-makers.

Members of the Biomedical alliance met in Brussels on 24-25 November on the occasion of its annual General Assembly. Besides the General assembly, several interested topics were discussed, namely the evolution of the Regulation on Artificial Intelligence, the Cooperation of medical societies on the European Life Science Strategy or the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI). 

Maria Pilar Aguar Fernandez, Director “People: Health and Society” at DG Research and Innovation, Nathalie Moll, Director General EFPIA or Niklas Blomberg, Executive Director IHI were among the keynote guests to present the different European initiatives.

MORE INFORMATION ON BIOMED ALLIANCE

The European Commission has recently presented its proposals for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) from 2028-2034 which includes an ambitious overall budget, a new Horizon Europe (FP10) and a mix of bottom-up and top-down instruments. 

The proposal includes a restructuring of existing elements, including of health and research related funding. BioMed Alliance (35 medical & research societies) and 18 other civil society organisations representing patients, ERNs, healthcare professionals and the wider health community call on policy makers to

ensure that the next multiannual EU budget will be fit-for-purpose to address current and future health threats. They ask the Commission, the Council and the Parliament to ensure strong, ringfenced health funding in a dedicated cluster or window, and to ensure that patient needs will be met.

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However, its implementation may have also led to the withdrawal of certain Class III orthopaedic implants from the market.

As the European umbrella organization for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, EFORT holds key positions within EU regulatory bodies, including the Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) at DG SANTE and the Expert Panels at EMA.

To ensure that the voice of the orthopaedic community is heard in these discussions, we are again conducting an MDR-related survey to assess the real-world impact of MDR on implant availability.  

We invite you to participate in this important survey, which will take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Your insights will help us advocate for solutions that support both innovation and patient care.

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