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Editorial by Andrew Quaile -Â Common mistakes by authors
SICOT Events - XXVI SICOT Triennial World Congress combined with the 46th SBOT Annual Meeting - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
International Meetings attended by SICOT - 10th German Congress for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery
SICOT News - Assiut Hip Arthroscopy Course: first in the Middle East - OrthoEvidence - your clinical resource for evidence based orthopaedics
SICOT Global Network for Electronic Learning - SIGNEL - Article of the Month - Case of the Month
Fellowship News - Hiranandani Orthopaedic Medical Education (HOME) Fellowship Report
Articles by SICOT Members - FIMAC in Burundi
History of Orthopaedics - History and evolution of intramedullary nailing
Women in Orthopaedics - The challenges of a female trainee orthopod
Worldwide News - The deformity index as a predictor of final radiological outcome in Perthes' disease
Editorial by Andrew Quaile - Associate Editor of âInternational Orthopaedicsâ Journal Common mistakes by authors In the current academic environment clinicians and especially those undergoing training find that publishing articles in respected journals is increasingly important. It adds to the curriculum vitae leading to more success in job applications and assists career progression in each chosen field. This article hopes to assist the process of writing an article to the standard required for acceptance in International Orthopaedics. The comments in it are also likely to help in submitting an article to many other journals.Â Read more... SICOT Events XXVI SICOT Triennial World Congress combined with the 46th SBOT Annual MeetingÂ Rio de Janeiro TWC 2014 19-22 November 2014 * Rio de Janeiro, BrazilÂ Â Registration Congress registration is openÂ hereÂ for all participants not residing in Brazil. Participants residing in Brazil should registerÂ here. Scientific Programme The Programme at a glance is available to download here. Â SICOT and SBOT are pleased to announce thatÂ Andrew J. Carr,Â Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford,Â andÂ John P. Dormans,Â Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP),Â will be delivering plenary lectures at the Rio meeting.Â Read more... Â With the experience of three successful events we are pleased to announce the 4th SICOT Educational DayÂ in Rio de Janeiro to be held on 19 November 2014. The theme for this year is 'Shoulder & Elbow'. We have invited expert Faculty from over 10 countries to lecture on the course.Â Read more... Â Social Programme Don't miss the Rio Scenarium Night on Friday, 21 November! Tickets are limited, so please book early. Register here. Â Accommodation & Tours Exclusive hotel and tour offers in Rio de Janeiro can be found here. Exhibition & Sponsorship Don't miss this unique opportunity to promote your products and services to leading international orthopaedic surgeons, traumatologists and specialists in related fields.Â Read more... International Meetings attended by SICOTÂ 10th German Congress for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery Don't miss the 10th German Congress for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DKOU), one of the largest congresses for Orthopaedics and Trauma worldwide, attracting over 11,000 congress delegates! The Congress will take place on 28-31 October 2014 in Berlin, Germany, and highlights include lectures by Dr Henrique Jones (Portugal) and Prof Francesco Benazzo (Italy). Further information about all sessions in English can be found here and any questions you may have will be answered if you email dkou@intercongress.de. The organising scientific societies welcome you to Berlin in October! SICOT News Assiut Hip Arthroscopy Course: first in the Middle East The Assiut Arthroscopy Sports Injuries Unit (AASIU) organised in May the first Hip Arthroscopy Course in the region. Until now, hip arthroscopy has not been as popular as shoulder and knee arthroscopy in Egypt and the region. The course was aimed to promote and create more interest in this relatively new field in Egypt. The Unit is part of the Orthopaedic Department in Assiut University, which is a SICOT Education Centre. Read more... Â OrthoEvidence - your clinical resource for evidence based orthopaedics At OrthoEvidence we take pride in being the global online source for timely, high quality, pre-appraised evidence based orthopaedic summaries. Our database of over 2,400 Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACE) Reports bring you the highest quality research from over 60 top orthopaedic journals. Our ACE Reports are the easiest way to consume research articles, which are designed to be 5 times faster than reading the full text. Our iOS app is coming in 2014 to put our content to the palm of your hand.Â Open your OrthoEvidence account and get the best evidence delivered to your inbox â simply go to the SICOT Members' Area to join via SICOT! We look forward to providing you the best evidence that matters. SICOT Global Network for Electronic Learning - SIGNEL Article of the Month Neglected ununited tibial eminence fractures in the skeletally immature: arthroscopic management Ashraf Abdelkafy & Hatem Galal Said PurposeÂ The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate outcomes of arthroscopic management of neglected ununited tibial eminence fractures in skeletally immature patients. Read more... Â Case of the Month by SolayarÂ Gandhi & ShannonÂ FintanÂ An 81-year-old lady was admitted after a fall with injury to her right shoulder. She recently had a full course of chemotherapy for transitional cell bladder carcinoma. A plain radiograph of the shoulder was performed. Q. What are your thoughts on the findings of the above radiograph? Read more... Fellowship News Hiranandani Orthopaedic Medical Education (HOME) Fellowship Report by Prajyot Jagtap Having worked at Hiranandani Hospital as a registrar earlier, I was well versed with the Hospital and working pattern of Dr Vijay Shetty. However, over the years the department has grown and now there are a number of young doctors working in Hiranandani Orthopaedic Medical Education (HOME), academic unit of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital, Powai, Mumbai, India. I was over the moon when I was selected at the interview to join this Clinical Research Fellowship. Read more... Articles by SICOT Members FIMAC in Burundi by Francesco Falez Almost seven years ago I was invited by a fellow orthopaedic surgeon, Vincenzo Monti, to spend some time in Burundi, a small Central African country, for some humanitarian work he started after the ethnic-based civil war which took place in that country for so many years. Together with a Burundian nun, he reactivated the Bubanza Hospital, which was destroyed by the revolutionaries during the war, with a non-profit organisation, the International Foundation of Doctors for Central Africa (FIMAC â Fondazione Internazionale Medici per lâAfrica Centrale). Read more... History of Orthopaedics History and evolution of intramedullary nailing by Ahmed F. Seifeldin & Ahmed Khedr From the use of intramedullary wooden pegs by Aztecs to the use of ASLS, intramedullary nailing has passed through several stages of development. There have been periods of great enthusiasm and days when the operation was described as a âdaring operationâ according to Time magazine. In this article we will go through the development of intramedullary nails and highlight the important turning points in its history. Read more... Women in Orthopaedics The challenges of a female trainee orthopod by Peace Amaraegbulam Residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery is a male-dominated field world over, because of the perception among many that the field requires much energy which the female folks may not possess. Female enrolment in this field has therefore always lagged behind that of females in more âfemale-friendly specialtiesâ like Paediatrics, Anaesthesia, Public Health, and so on. Many of the males do not relate nicely with their female colleagues whom they often regard as being too daring. This attitude and others like it make life a bit difficult for the female orthopaedic trainee. And often, she may have to combine this stress with the domestic stress of running a home. Read more... Worldwide News The deformity index as a predictor of final radiological outcome in Perthes' disease Comment by Shalin Maheshwari The ultimate goal when managing a child with Perthesâ disease is to maximize congruity of femoral head and acetabulum. The premise is that by limiting the degree of deformity of the femoral head, the likelihood of premature osteoarthritis and leg length discrepancy is reduced. Deformity Index (DI) as defined in this paper is the maximal orthogonal differences in height and width between the affected and normal epiphyses summed and divided by the width of the normal growth plate. Read more... 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