Events
59,663 participants/323 events
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International
12,340 participants/45 events
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North America
5,513 participants/57 events
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Latin America
22,035 participants/52 events
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Europe and Southern Africa
7,044 participants/81 events
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Middle East and Northern Africa
3,452 participants/18 events
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Asia Pacific
9,279 participants/70 events
Faculty involvement
2,698 faculty/5642 faculty days
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International
351 faculties/780 faculty days
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North America
531 faculties/910 faculty days
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Latin America
285 faculties/414 faculty days
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Europe and Southern Africa
665 faculties/1,791 faculty days
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Middle East and Northern Africa
183 faculties/431 faculty days
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Asia Pacific
683 faculties/1,316 faculty days
Events
30,920 participants/256 events
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International
1,854 participants/8 events
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North America
842 participants/18 events
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Latin America
4,376 participants/65 events
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Europe and Southern Africa
4,800 participants/42 events
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Middle East and Northern Africa
2,149 participants/38 events
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Asia Pacific
16,899 participants/85 events
Faculty involvement
1,097 faculty/1,111 faculty days
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International
43 faculties/78 faculty days
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North America
65 faculties/77 faculty days
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Latin America
303 faculties/170 faculty days
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Europe and Southern Africa
152 faculties/150 faculty days
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Middle East and Northern Africa
134 faculties/150 faculty days
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Asia Pacific
400 faculties/486 faculty days
Events
28,371 participants/133 events
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International
33 participants/1 event
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North America
2,171 participants/11 events
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Latin America
7,672 participants/31 events
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Europe and Southern Africa
7,494 participants/37 events
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Middle East and Northern Africa
6,327 participants/27 events
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Asia Pacific
4,677 participants/26 events
Faculty involvement
709 faculty/841 faculty days
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International
3 faculties/2 faculty days
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North America
45 faculties/58 faculty days
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Latin America
160 faculties/103 faculty days
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Europe and Southern Africa
178 faculties/212 faculty days
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Middle East and Northern Africa
141 faculties/152 faculty days
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Asia Pacific
182 faculties/314 faculty days
Events
13,094 participants/41 events
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International
4,733 participants/28 events
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North America
8,101 participants/9 events
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Europe and Southern Africa
260 participants/4 events
Faculty involvement
146 faculty/262 faculty days
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International
73 faculties/77 faculty days
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North America
37 faculties/62 faculty days
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Europe and Southern Africa
36 faculties/123 faculty days
Events
4,547 participants/28 events
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International
1,893 participants/12 events
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North America
300 participants/1 event
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Latin America
334 participants/3 events
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Europe and Southern Africa
1,397 participants/7 events
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Middle East and Northern Africa
243 participants/2 events
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Asia Pacific
380 participants/3 events
Faculty involvement
176 faculty/305 faculty days
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International
61 faculties/125 faculty days
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North America
2 faculties/2 faculty days
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Latin America
24 faculties/36 faculty days
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Europe and Southern Africa
43 faculties/82 faculty days
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Middle East and Northern Africa
10 faculties/10 faculty days
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Asia Pacific
36 faculties/50 faculty days
AO Trauma
The largest global group of dedicated orthopedic and trauma surgeons, researchers, and operating room personnel (ORP) striving for excellence and volunteering for a common goal, AO Trauma intelligently harnessed digital technology in response to the pandemic-driven scarcity in on-site educational opportunities.
For example, the AO Trauma upper extremity curriculum was successfully piloted in an online format, achieving impressive results and enthusiastic responses from the faculty. The curriculum, which provides a robust and flexible educational framework, addresses the needs of practicing surgeons treating upper-extremity injuries.
Further evidence of AO Trauma’s response to the overwhelming global demand for high-quality education in a globally accessible format in the face of COVID-19 was the new AO Trauma Online Course—Basic Principles of Fracture Management Essentials, launched in June 2020. The course, offered twice in 2020 and completed by 178 people, outpaced typical online course offerings.
AO Trauma World Meeting 2020—online
AO Trauma pivoted to an online format with the AO Trauma World Meeting. Originally scheduled for April in Madrid, Spain, the meeting was convened as a fully online event with five purely online courses over three days. This gave the world its first glimpse of the AO’s highly engaging and immersive virtual event platform employed at the AO Davos Courses 2020 in December.
Competency-based Training and Assessment Program (CTAP)
Further asserting its innovative nature, AO Trauma continued development of its new, digital Competency-based Training and Assessment Program (CTAP). The program aims to establish the AO as the globally recognized, trusted provider of a certificate of proficiency. It consolidates AO Trauma’s leadership role in global surgical education by providing skills training and assessment in addition to knowledge transfer. It combines the latest digital teaching, training, and assessment tools—such as haptic virtual reality simulation—with online and immersive on-site learning experiences. Initially, CTAP will enable residents to complete the milestones needed for becoming certified orthopedic trauma surgeons.
AO Global Data
Launched in 2020, AO Global Data is the world’s most comprehensive musculoskeletal registry, with well over a billion data points.