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BOA Virtual Courses With the current cancellation of face-to-face educational courses, the BOA have developed Virtual Training courses facilitated by the BOA Educational Advisor Lisa Hadfield-Law.
Committee appointments Following a successful round of applications, the BOA would like to congratulate all those who have been appointed onto the BOA Committees: Orthopaedic Committee Lucky Jeyaseelan, Mukesh Hemmady, Siva Prasad Research Committee Hamish Simpson (Chair), Chloe Scott, Hemant Sharma, Yuri Kulikov Education and Careers Committee Niall Eames (Vice-chair), Usman Ahmed
New Year’s Honours
• Training Orthopaedic Trainers (V-TOTs) The BOA has run V-TOTs programmes since March 2020. Much of the work can be done at a time, place and pace convenient to participants, with attendance at live virtual meetings to supplement personal learning. Learning is monitored through learning logs with written feedback from expert faculty. The V-TOTs course will last for approximately six weeks. • BOA Virtual Training Orthopaedic Education Supervisors (V-TOES) V-TOES will be offered through two routes, and either you can join a small cohort on a paid-for course (‘Regular V-TOES’) or in many regions we are holding a ‘regional V-TOES’ at the request of the TPD: • Regular V-TOES courses will have lower numbers of participants compared to regional courses and will be given greater moderation by faculty, and tailored interactions between faculty and participants based on the needs of the cohort. • Regional courses will cover high numbers of participants on each programme, with TPDs and College tutors joining as faculty. The new curriculum will require more collaboration between departments within deaneries and the BOA Regional V-TOES courses will be supporting this. These courses are being delivered as part of a BOA-led national strategy to support implementation of the new curriculum – this commenced in December 2019 and will be delivered in those regions where requested and organised by the TPD (check with the TPD for your region if you aren’t sure). If you are interested in either course, find out more at www.boa.ac.uk/v-toes or www.boa.ac.uk/v-tots.
2021 Medical Student Essay Prize Applications for the 2021 Medical Student Essay Prize will open on 1st April and close on 30th April. Medical students from the UK and Republic of Ireland are invited to submit an essay of no longer than 1,000 words on the question: ‘As a medical student, what would encourage you to consider a career in T&O and what are the perceived barriers to such a career?’ Further information on the 2021 Medical Student Essay Prize can be found at www.boa.ac.uk/medical-student-essay.
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The BOA would like to congratulate Professor Chris Moran who was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours, for services to trauma surgery.
Arterial BOAST update The BOA Trauma Committee has recently updated the BOAST ‘Diagnosis & Management of Arterial Injuries Associated With Extremity Fractures and Dislocations’. This BOAST will be the next to be published in Injury. As this issue goes to print two new BOASTs ‘Cervical spine clearance in the trauma patient’ and ‘Providing a Continuous Safe Elective Orthopaedic Environment’ – are nearly ready for publication, so keep an eye out for these! All BOASTs – including Trauma, Elective and Specialty - can be found on the BOA website at: www.boa.ac.uk/boasts.
Recent publications relevant to BOA members: • The second wave of NHS-England-backed programme ‘Evidence Based Interventions (EBI)’ has been published and can be found on the AoMRC website. This wave contains guidance on 31 interventions, including ten relevant to a range of orthopaedic and/or surgical issues, and we encourage members to review the guidance relevant to their area of practice. The BOA would like to thank all involved in the EBI process last year. • The latest NHFD (National Hip Fracture Database) report was published in January and is available on the NHFD website: www.nhfd.co.uk/20/hipfractureR.nsf/ docs/2020Report.
