AO In-Hospital
A smarter, simpler way for AO Spine faculty to deliver surgical education at their workplace.
AO In-Hospital is a faculty-exclusive platform designed to help you provide high-quality, practical education for your hospital’s surgical staff—right at your workplace, and on your schedule.
AO In-Hospital reduces the barriers by offering a growing library of expertly developed, ready-to-use modules in spine surgery—designed to support you in delivering impactful education with minimal effort.
Plan and lead your own AO In-Hospital education session, supported by AO Spine’s trusted resources. Get started!
What does AO In-Hospital offer?
Exclusive access for AO Spine faculty
Flexible delivery at your hospital (1–4 hours sessions), on your schedule
Customizable sessions tailored to the needs of your team
Free-of-charge
Evidence-based lectures and clinical cases—ready to teach, built to save you time
Currently, event packages for two educational modules are available in the dashboard. Each module offers up to 4 hours of content and can be delivered on half a day or spread over several weeks.
- Thoracolumbar Trauma: This module shows the standards of care for diagnosis, decision making, and management of various trauma situations. It is delivered as a series of cases where the steps in making a diagnosis, defining the management options, and selecting a treatment plan are discussed. An evidence-based approach is applied to each clinical presentation and fracture type.
- Adult Deformity: This module shows the current standards in the diagnosis and management of adult deformity. It is the first in a series of three pathways in a comprehensive event about spinal deformities: the Early Onset and Adolescent pathways will be added later.
The content is delivered as a series of lectures and cases structured into four modules:
- Spinal deformities throughout life
- Evaluation of the patient
- Decision making and goals/strategy
- Treatment planning, execution and aftercare
Besides content access, the platform provides everything for conveniently organizing the event at your hospital, from event registration and participant management and pre- and post-event assessments to issuing certificates of attendance.
The highly interactive modules enable AO Spine faculty to successfully teach their hospital teams and meet their learning needs.
Each module includes:
- A pre-event assessment to identify the team’s educational needs
- Prereading material
- Didactic lectures
- Clinical case discussions
- Group discussions
- Post-event assessment and event reports to analyze the team's increase in knowledge
Upon completion of the pre- and post-event online assessments, participants receive certificates of attendance.
(Open to AO faculty members only)
Getting started is easy:
- Choose a module
- Set up your event
- Share the registration link
- Download your materials
Make the most of your event—register your module to get:
- Pre- and post-event assessments
- Event reports
- Attendance certificates
Thoracolumbar Trauma
Authors: Sameh Abolfotouh, Omar Alnori, Ghazwan Hasan, Alexandre Jaccard, Mohamed Fawzy Khattab, Luiz Gustavo Dal Oglio da Rocha.
Editors: Klaus Schnake, Muzahem Taha
Peer-reviewed by: Richard Bransford, Luiz Gustavo Dal Oglio da Rocha, Alpaslan Senkoylu
Adult Deformity:
Authors: Ahmet Alanay, Pedro Berjano, Louis Boissiere, Yann Philippe Charles, Tamas Fekete, Enrico Gallazzi, Sleiman Haddad, Shahnawaz Haleem, Siegmund Lang, Susana Nunez
Editors: Markus Loibl, Caglar Yilgor
Peer-reviewed by: Jason Cheung, Mohammad El-Sharkawi, Alpaslan Senkoylu
Target audience
- Residents
- Fellows
- Junior and experienced spine surgeons
Other medical professionals
AO In-Hospital Spine Module Editors
Klaus Schnake
Thoracolumbar Trauma
Muzahem Taha
Thoracolumbar Trauma
Markus Loibl
Adult Deformity
Caglar Yilgor
Adult Deformity
The AO In-Hospital Steering Committee
Richard Bransford
AO Spine North America
Jason Cheung
AO Spine Asia Pacific
Mohammad El-Sharkawi
AO Spine Middle East and Northern Africa
Luiz Gustavo Dal Oglio da Rocha
AO Spine Latin America
Alpaslan Senkoylu
AO Spine Europe and Southern Africa
“The development of the AO In-Hospital modules is one of the key initiatives of the AO Spine Education Commission and the Education Institute. We believe there is tremendous value in this initiative. ”
Richard Bransford
AO In-Hospital Testimonials
We are happy to answer your questions and provide you with additional information.
Contact us at in-hospital@aofoundation.org.