Beate Hanson at the Roadmap to Research course in Davos
is developing a practical electronic tool which uses computeradaptive testing to track patients’ outcome progress. Work on the AOPOC program progressed in 2013, in readiness for the initial testing of the system on actual patients in early 2014. Education A dedicated education manager was appointed to manage the growth in educational courses and programs offered. Highlights included a Study Coordinator Course in Boston, and a sold out Good Clinical Practice course in Hong Kong.
The AOCID stand at the AO Davos Courses 2013
AOCID Director Beate Hanson co-moderated an AOTrauma webinar on “How to write a good grant proposal“ along with Stephen Kates. A pilot version of a Roadmap to Research workbook was tested at the Davos Courses 2013 where the course of the same name was being run for the 20th time. Also at the courses, AOCID reran a short survey originally conducted in 2003. “Finding the evidence—where do surgeons look?” will map changes in attitudes to evidence-based medicine in the intervening decade. Three young spine and trauma surgeons from Colombia, Iran and Brazil were the clinical research fellows in 2013. AOCID‘s research partner, the Audi Accident Research Unit, sent a surgeon to Switzerland to conduct research on data collected on over 44,000 traffic victims in Germany. Past fellow, Pratik Desai won the AAOS Resident Writer‘s Award for his work conducted with AOCID. Researchers behind the Scoli-RISK-1 study had an awardwinning presentation at the Scoliosis Research Society meeting. 41