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Bone & Joint Journal/EFORT Travelling Fellowship in Scandinavia Abbas Rashid, Amit Atrey & Owen Diamond – BOA Associates/Members This was the inaugural fellowship initiated and funded by the British Editorial Society of the Bone & Joint Journal and supported by EFORT and the BOA. Every year three orthopaedic surgeons are selected to spend two weeks visiting orthopaedic centres of excellence in either the UK or mainland Europe, culminating in attendance at either the EFORT or BOA Congresses. We enjoyed visits to: Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; Hvidore University Hospital, Copenhagen Denmark; Skane University Hospital, Lund Sweden and The Orton Clinic, Helsinki Finland. Our tour concluded with a trip to the 14th EFORT conference in Istanbul where we enjoyed a drinks reception with Professor Philipe Neyret (Lyon, France) who selected the units and the late Mr Mark Paterson (London, UK) who was our linkman from the BJJ. In addition to getting an excellent insight into how Scandinavian hospital systems are structured to tackle healthcare provision in a changing economic environment, we were able to broaden our clinical experience, make important professional contacts and gain experience in presenting our own work in an international setting. We hope our visit provided a welcome stimulus for the centres involved, as well as giving them an opportunity to strengthen their ties with the UK. We would like to express our gratitude to all the organisations involved for their generosity.
Our full report can be found at: www.efort.org/wp-content/ uploads/2013/06/bjj_boa_efort_ tf_2013.pdf This Fellowship has now been renamed the Mark Paterson Travelling Fellowship and the next opportunity for BOA members to take part will be in 2015. Find more information at: www.efort.org/fellowship-awards/ fellowships/bone-and-jointefort-tf
Biplanar c-arms being used to fix an intertrochanteric neck of femur fracture at Malmö University Hospital in Malmö, Sweden
BOA Awards 18 Travelling Fellowships – Could it be you next year? The BOA was delighted to award eighteen fellowships in this year’s round of BOA Travelling Fellowships. Generous funding from legacies, generous donors and internal funds (with values between £1,500 to £10,000) enables the BOA to offer members career-enhancing opportunities to develop their surgical skills under expert clinical guidance, whilst forging close working relationships with prestigious medical institutions around the world. Congratulations to the following outstanding individuals, who each demonstrated a commitment to broadening and furthering
Jacobs, Asim Rajpura, Parag Jaiswal, Tony Bateman, Dennis Kosuge, Narayana Prasad, Wiqqas Jamil, Mohamed Sukeik, Louise McCullough, Darryl Ramoutar, Jaykar Panchmatia, Joseph Baker and Shin-Jae Rhee.
their T&O careers, in a variety of subspecialties: Alex Trompeter, Jonathan Stevenson, Jeya Palan, Arpit Jarawala, Alex Aarvold, Neal
To find out if you are eligible to apply for the 2015 BOA Travelling Fellowships, please visit the Training & Education section of the BOA website where you can read about each of the fellowship opportunities in more detail. Applications for 2015 will open in October 2014, and in the meantime please do not hesitate to contact Holly Weldin: h.weldin@boa.ac.uk if you have any queries, and keep an eye on the BOA website.