AO In-Hospital accelerates global growth in 2025 with record engagement in Latin America
AO In-Hospital continued its strong global expansion in 2025, delivering 113 free, hospital-based educational events to 3,056 orthopedic surgeons and residents across 25 countries. Among the AO’s five global regions, AO Trauma Latin America (AO T LA) led in both number of events and participant engagement, driven by particularly robust growth in Mexico with 24 events and 699 participants.
Central to that exceptional growth was Mexico’s focus on faculty outreach to improve access to AO In-Hospital educational modules and enhance participants’ clinical skills without travel or disruption.
AO In-Hospital: a core pillar of trauma education in Mexico
In addition to expanding its outreach efforts beyond urban centers, AO Trauma Mexico is burnishing AO In-Hospital’s reputation for ease of use by translating the platform’s content and contributing to the AO’s growth by cultivating new faculty through early engagement.
Underpinning these efforts is the fact that AO In-Hospital has become a key component of the AO educational strategy in Mexico, where the number of trauma residents has doubled over the past couple of years.
Adding value for faculty, residents, and hospital teams
In addition to providing faculty with content backed by the AO’s position as the world's leading education provider to health-care professionals working in the fields of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders, Arroyo said AO In-Hospital enhances participants’ knowledge and engagement, empowers hospital staff to improve patient outcomes, and enables safe learning environments, all without travel or disruption of clinical duties.
Improving access to high-quality trauma education across Mexico
AO Trauma Mexico has further expanded this impact in a unique, boots-on-the-ground approach, delivering AO In-Hospital modules in less urban hospitals that don’t have AO Trauma faculty on staff. In this sprawling nation where most AO Faculty and offerings are centralized in capital city, former AO Trauma Mexico Country Council Chairperson Pedro Jorba takes the AO’s gold-standard educational content to hospitals’ doorsteps for the benefit of both faculty responsible for organizing regular training and residents who often lack the financial resources to attend formal AO courses.
Building a growing community of AO In-Hospital champions
According to Jorba, AO Trauma Mexico’s proactive outreach strategy about AO In-Hospital’s value is reflected in the number of 2025 event participants, a growing base of AO In-Hospital champions in Mexico and Latin America, and a stronger global AO community.
“Some residents have actually joined the AO after participating in AO In-Hospital events because they feel seen, valued, and cared for,” he said. “I hear residents say, ‘I want to be part of the AO,’ and ‘I would love to be AO Faculty when I’m older.’”
AO In-Hospital’s success in Mexico and Latin America stands out as an example of AO Trauma’s commitment to the AO’s mission of promoting excellence in patient care and outcomes in trauma and musculoskeletal disorders.
“I think AO In-Hospital is the most important new AO educational content driving direct results in terms of patient outcomes,” Jorba said.
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