Name AO Trauma’s newly launched educational offering and win a trip to the AO Davos Courses 2022

After two years in the development and pilot phases, AO Trauma today officially launches its new education offering under the working name, AO Grand Rounds. To kick off the launch of this innovative product answering the demand for in-hospital training, AO Trauma has initiated a community product naming contest: AO Trauma community members are invited to provide a product name with broader, global appeal.

The multistage contest will include several winners and vouchers redeemable for regional AO Trauma courses as rewards for each stage and will conclude with a grand final prize: a fully paid trip for the winner to attend the course of his/her choice at the AO Davos Courses 2022.

What is AO Grand Rounds?

Responding to hospitals' need to provide regular education to their surgical departments, the AO over the past two years has developed and piloted the innovative AO Grand Rounds, comprising free-of-charge, module-based content, available exclusively for AO Trauma faculty to deliver at their own hospitals. At launch, four modules are included: acute compartment syndrome, polytrauma, management of open fractures, and best practices in geriatric hip fractures.

AO Trauma faculty can already access the AO Grand Rounds Dashboard and register to organize one of these four in-hospital training modules for their junior orthopedic trauma surgeons, residents, and general trauma surgeons.

In addition to the four modules launched so far, the education product ultimately will include modules covering other topics such as intraoperative anatomy (proximal femur and distal radius), augmentation, intramedullary nailing, 3D imaging, infection, fracture basics, instrumentation, and soft-tissue management.