COURSE CONTENT

Lectures and clinical skill courses:

1. 1. Introduction in Trauma and Orthopaedics
   2. Medical history, clinical presentation, clinical examination, Diagnosis, Fractures
   3. Joint inflammatory diseases
   4. Fractures and healing of fractures
   5. Skills lab – internal fixation
   6. Osteoporosis & other metabolic diseases affecting the bone health
   7. Hip fractures
   8. Non-surgical means of limb immobilization
   9. Osteoarthritis
   10. Basic principles of open fracture management
   11. Skills lab – external fixation
   12. Peripheral Nerve injuries – Entrapment syndromes
   13. Bone infection
   14. Polytrauma – ATLS
   15. Pelvic fractures
   16. Femoral Fractures
   17. Damage control orthopaedics
   18. Lower back pain – sciatica
   19. Injuries of the spine
   20. Fractures of the humerus and elbow
   21. Sport related injuries and tendon injuries
   22. Knee injuries
   23. Arthroscopy and other procedures
   24. Injuries of the growing skeleton
   25. Forearm injuries
   26. Injuries of the hand and wrist
   27. Orthopaedic Oncology
   28. Tibia fractures and compartment syndrome
   29. Foot and ankle injuries
   30. Insertional tendinopathies
   31. Bone infracts
   32. Basic principles of medical research
   33. Biomechanics
   34. Injuries of the shoulder
   35. Joint dislocations
   36. Non-union
   37. Distraction osteogenesis and Bone Transport
   38. The Limping child