BACKGROUND Women and minorities remain underrepresented in orthopaedic surgery. In an attempt to increase the diversity of those entering the physician workforce, Nth Dimensions implemented a targeted pipeline curriculum that includes the Orthopaedic Summer Internship Program. The program exposes medical students to the specialty of orthopaedic surgery and equips students to be competitive appl...

Hip fractures are one of the most common injuries which present to an orthopaedic surgeon. Most of these cases are unilateral .Bilateral simultaneous femur neck fracture is a rare occurrence. We report a case of a bilateral neck femur fracture in a 30 year male following a generalized tonic clonic seizure in view of its rarity and also to increase the awareness of such rare injuries. The patien...

 I. De Martino, MD, Clinical Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Complex Joint Reconstruction CEnter, Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Division  V. G. Soranoglou, MD, Research Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Division  L. A. Poultsides, MD, Clinical Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult Reconstruction and Joint ...

the abstracts of 23rd congress of iranian orthopaedic association from 5 to 9 october, 2015.

Investigation performed at the University of Southern California Orthopaedic Surgery Associates, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, Unlimited Research, San Antonio, Texas, Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, Durham, North Carolina, Orthopaedic Center of Vero Beach, Vero Beach, Florida, OrthoIndy, Indianapolis, Indiana, TRIA Orthopaedic Center, Bloomington Minnesota, and Greater Ches...

1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan 2Oncology Service, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA 4Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, Japan 5Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Fukuoka University Graduate School of Medicine, ...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Globally, injuries cause approximately as many deaths per year as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and 90% of injury deaths occur in low- and middle- income countries. Given not all injuries kill, the disability burden, particularly from orthopaedic injuries, is much higher but is poorly measured at present. The orthopaedic services and orthopaedic medical d...

abstract background: with increasing knowledge concerning fractures of the distal radius, different classifications have been proposed. reliability of most of these classifications has been assessed. the fernandez classification has never been assessed for intraobserver and interobserver reliability, although this classification is commonly used. methods: five observers including one attending ...

BACKGROUND The ongoing process of population aging is associated with an increase in prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions with a concomitant increase in the demand of orthopaedic services. Shortages of orthopaedic services have been documented in Canada and elsewhere. This population-based study describes the number of patients seen by orthopaedic surgeons in office and hospital settings to...