Orthopaedic Diploma
CME-accreditedAMA PRA Category 1 Credit™via JBJS
Structured adult orthopaedic trauma training.
Taught live by practising specialists you can question.
Omar Sabri, Simon Craxford and 3 more Meet the faculty
Academic partner
18 sessions across 5 modules, delivered over approximately 18 weeks (longer due to breaks).
Orthopaedic Diplomas in partnership with JBJS and Miller Review Course Oxford
Overview
A structured online programme covering the adult orthopaedic trauma curriculum from polytrauma resuscitation through definitive fixation, complications and special populations. The curriculum runs from principles and pelvic trauma through the upper and lower limbs, with a dedicated wrist session and a final module on non-union, periprosthetic fracture, infection and geriatric trauma. Carpal injuries are covered separately in the Hand Diploma.
The diploma runs as 18 weekly sessions across 5 modules.
Damage control orthopaedics and the physiology of injury; open fractures and the orthoplastic approach; compartment syndrome, vascular injury and the mangled extremity; fracture biology, healing and the principles of fixation.
Pelvic ring injuries from acute resuscitation through definitive percutaneous and open fixation; acetabular fractures from Letournel classification through surgical approaches, fixation and acute total hip arthroplasty in the elderly.
Clavicle, scapula, proximal humerus and humeral shaft; distal humerus, elbow and forearm; a dedicated session on distal radius and wrist injuries. Carpal injuries are covered in the Hand Diploma.
Hip fractures (intracapsular and extracapsular); femoral shaft and ipsilateral neck-shaft fractures; distal femur and knee periarticular trauma; tibial plateau, shaft and pilon fractures; ankle and foot trauma including Lisfranc.
Non-union and malunion reconstruction; periprosthetic fractures; fracture-related infection; geriatric trauma, frailty and fragility fractures (including sacral insufficiency and fragility pelvic ring injuries).
Faculty
A selection of the consultants who teach this diploma live. Each takes questions from the group in their session. The full list is published ahead of each cohort.
Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon; Course Director, Adult Trauma Diploma
London, UK (& Dubai)
MBBCh, MS (Orth), FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Complex trauma and fracture management, pelvic and acetabular reconstruction, hip and knee arthroplasty (including robotic), and lower-limb sports injuries. Formerly Orthopaedic Lead for Major Trauma at St George's University Hospital, London, and former Secretary of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society (UK & Ireland).
Consultant Trauma & Limb Reconstruction Surgeon
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals
BSc, MBChB, PhD, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Trauma and complex limb reconstruction: complex limb trauma, open fractures, limb lengthening and frame surgery, deformity correction, periarticular fractures, orthoplastics, bone infection and non-union or malunion.
Chair of Bone and Joint Health; Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon
Queen Mary University of London; Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust
MA, PhD, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Inaugural Chair of Bone and Joint Health at Queen Mary University of London, leading academic orthopaedics at QMUL and Barts Health. Specialises in pelvic and acetabular fractures at the Royal London, Europe's busiest orthopaedic trauma hospital. Previously Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford.
Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre / John Radcliffe
MBBS, FRCS (Tr & Orth), Dip Hand Surg
Specialises in hand, wrist and elbow surgery, including peripheral nerve entrapment, Dupuytren's disease, hand and wrist trauma, arthritis and scaphoid nonunion, with a research and surgical interest in hand and wrist tumours. Clinical Lead for Hand and Wrist Surgery.
Consultant, Musculoskeletal Oncology & Arthroplasty
Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore
MS (Orth), DNB (Orth), FNB (Trauma)
Specialises in musculoskeletal oncology, arthroplasty and complex trauma, including periprosthetic fractures. Fellowship-trained in MSK oncology at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, and former Girdlestone Scholar at the Oxford Sarcoma Service.
Shoulder and Elbow, Orthopaedic Oncology, Paediatric Trauma and Family Medicine are enrolling now. Places are limited and filled on a first-come basis. For all other diplomas, register interest to be notified when applications open.
Orthopaedic Diplomas in partnership with JBJS and Miller Review Course Oxford
