• Didactic lectures by orthopaedic surgeons
• Case based discussion by experienced trauma surgeons
• Live surgical demonstration on several varieties of trauma
• Debates on controversial trauma concerns
• Addressing minutae of nonunion, malunion and infection
• Instructive lectures and relevant discussion by faculty on July 30, 2017 (open to BOS members)
• Delegates may bring their difficult cases for discussion during the course

• Introduces the JESS System and its versatile uses. Teaches delegates the techniques for use of JESS fixators in various clinical conditions like hand Injuries, trauma of the upper and lower limb, acquired deformities – congenital, burns, and post trauma, congenital deformities like CTEV, genu valgum, cubitus varus, coxa vara etc.
• Training covers lectures, operative sessions, demonstrative workshops. JESS is a simple technique which is advantageous to many candidates especially those dealing with basic orthopaedic problems at all levels. It is a viable treatment option for a patient population which has osteoporotic bones and comminuted fractures. It is particularly useful to surgeons who work under constraints especially those in rural areas. Versatility ranges from its use as a temporary / definitive fixation device in fractures with soft tissue and vascular injuries to its use in definitive correction of acquired limb deformities and congenital malformations.

• Teach techniques and dissection to young orthopaedic trainee
• Refresh the knowledge of common and difficult surgical approaches of practising orthopaedic surgeons
• To provide knowledge of orthopaedic anatomy
• This course is planned to extent the horizon of orthopaedic surgeon for performing difficult orthopaedic surgeries even at individual and primary level
• The newer approaches are also included to allow access to most of bones and joints
• Course is to design having more hands on experience and less lecture
• Eminent faculty will train and share their experience so that complications of approaches are avoided after doing the course
• One day course will bring more dissection skill of proper handling of soft tissue and neurovascular structures
• Newer approaches to perform operation around hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle and spine
• Approaches are meant to perform on simple trauma and difficult surgeries, tumors, joint stiffness and replacement arthrolysis
• This will built up on previous knowledge of the surgery

• Cadaveric workshop on fresh frozen cadavers with hands-on learning of the various approaches of spine (Depending on availability of the same)
• Saw bone workshop to learn instrumentation
• Imaging workshop
• Live surgical demonstration of all major spine surgeries
• Video presentations

• Tips on writing scientific manuscripts & getting them published
• Tips on effective presentation skills
• Choosing and constructing an orthopaedic thesis
• Relevant basic statistical tests & their applications
• The intricacies of Indian and Foreign fellowships & writing effective fellowship applications
• Writing an effective and lucid CV
• Writing research proposals
• Networking & collaboration amongst seniors and peer
• Appraisal of scientific manuscripts
• Starting a clinical practice

The Bombay Orthopaedic Society is often considered as the Corner Stone of Academic Education. It has been successfully conducting the J. C. Taraporvala Post Graduate Clinics since many years. In the recent past, each clinical meeting has also been clubbed with a Post Graduate teaching session.

Hence, it is time that ‘Impetus’ the Post Graduate preparatory course of the Bombay Orthopedic Society should explore newer frontiers and surpass the benchmark it has set over the last 3 years. Hence, we humbly propose ‘Impetus Express’ – The Post Graduate Finishing School as an amendment to Impetus for the Academic Year 2017-18.

• Hands-on cadaveric workshop on fresh cadavers which are injected with latex to delineate arteries
• Understanding the basic principles of raising flaps upper limb and lower limb
• Practice concepts of flap dissection in upper limb and lower limbs

• To get orthopaedics surgeons conversant with basic flaps for upper limb and lower limb
• To improve knowledge of flaps and understanding the anatomy of raising flaps in upper limb and lower limb
• At the end of course, the delegate should be able to raise basic flaps to cover small as well as understand covering large defects in upper limb and lower limbs

The course is aimed at budding orthopaedic surgeons, within three years before and after the final exams.

The course is based on didacticals and pre-recorded videos, describes the essential biomechanics and good methods of handling the bone screw, bone plate, nail, wire & cable, external fixators, hip fixation implants and lays sound scientific foundation for fracture fixation operations. The spoken words are supported by numerous line sketches, videos, and radiographic examples to drive home the principles. There will be a work book exercise before and after a talk on an implant.

• Clarify in simple terms process of fracture healing and importance of mechanical environment of a fracture.
• Explain the language used in fracture fixation.
• Enumerate devices for fracture fixation; their description, principles of function, methodology and best practices for their use – screw / plate / nail / wires & cables / external fixations / spinal fixation.

• As the number of spine surgeons and spine surgeries carried out keep on increasing, the number of complex cervical spine surgeries performed keep on increasing. The field is continuously evolving as far as the complexity and the technical advances are concerned. The Advanced Cervical Spine Course is a cadaveric course totally focusing on complex spine issues like management of atlantoaxial dislocations, cervicodorsal deformities, and instrumentation in the cervical spine like cervical pedicle screws, lateral mass fixations and anterior reconstruction in cervical spine.
• The target participants would be surgeons who are familiar and have performed basic spine procedures since the academic content would not cover the basics of spine surgery and who are aiming to expand their knowledge in the management of cervical spine affections.