AO Trauma Course—Foot and Ankle Trauma and Reconstruction
Foot pain affects increasing numbers of people in our communities and has a significant impact on quality of life. AO Trauma’s foot and ankle curriculum offers a wide range of competency-based activities and resources that support your educational needs.
The Masters-level course is aimed at traumatologists, orthopaedic surgeons and other surgeons actively engaged in the treatment of foot and ankle fractures, who want to increase their level of specialization in lower limb treatment.
Why you should choose this course
Course content
- Module 1: Ankle trauma
- Module 2: Hindfoot trauma
- Module 3: Minimally invasive osteosynthesis *
- Module 4 : Midfoot trauma
- Module 5: Forefoot trauma
- Module 6: Soft-tissue trauma
- Module 7: Ankle arthritis
- Module 8: Hindfoot arthritis
- Module 9: Acquired flatfoot deformity
- Module 10: Cavus
- Module 11: Tendon transfers/neuromuscular
- Module 12: Charcot *
- Module 13: Midfoot reconstruction *
- Module 14: The great toe *
- Recon Module 15: The lesser toes *
- Sports Module 16: Sports injuries *
- Special Module 17: Anatomical specimen workshops full day
*Only in selected courses. Check your chosen date and location for the full program.
- Pilon Fracture
- Calcaneal fracture
- Lisfranc fractures
- Ankle fusion anterior
- Ankle fusion transfibular
- Ankle fusion with SCOPE for anatomical specimen workshop
- Subtalar bone block arthrodesis (reorientating distraction fusion)
- Hindfoot Arthrodesis Nail
- Calcaneal tuberosity
- Midfoot fusion bolt*
- 1st MTPJ fusion*
- Scarf osteotomy*
- Lapidus*
*Only in selected courses. Check your chosen date and location for the full program.
Course details may be subject to change. Please check your chosen date and location for the detailed program.
Target audience
- Foot and ankle specialists early in their careers
- Generalists (orthopedics) spending about 20 percent of their time on trauma (including community surgeons)
- Foot and ankle experts
- Trauma surgeons
Course impressions
Competencies
The curriculum is based upon 8 competencies:
- Perform adequate clinical evaluation and workup
- Recognize the potential for higher complication rates in patients with comorbidities, and plan appropriately
- Apply appropriate timing and staging in the treatment of fractures and dislocations, including polytrauma
- Recognize the indications and goals for reconstruction and perform procedures or refer, subject to expertise
- Select and perform appropriate surgical procedures, including handling of soft tissue
- Apply the principles of internal fixation and bone healing, including minimally invasive surgery
- Educate the patient regarding rehabilitation and prescribe an appropriate program
- Recognize and manage early and late complications
What does competency-based curriculum development mean?
Foot and ankle education task force
Lori Reed (US)
Term: 2022–2027
Husam Hussain Darwish (Saudi Arabia)
Term: 2026–2028
Alexandre Godoy-Santos (BR)
Term: 2024–2026
Regional Program Contributors (RPCs)
Asia Pacific
Tanawat Vaseenon (Thailand)
Yuet Peng Khor (Singapore)
Europe and Southern Africa
Sabine Ochman (Germany)
Aleksas Makulavicius (Lithuania)
Middle East and Northern Africa
Abdullah Odah Alkhawaldah (Jordan)
Wafa Al Baluki (Oman)
Latin America
German Joannas (Argentina)
Gabriel Khazen (Venezuela)
North America
John Munz (USA)
Brad Yoo (USA)
Past taskforce members
Igors Terjajevs (Latvia), 2023–2025
Keen-Wai Chong (Singapore), 2021–2023
Ossama El Shazly (Egypt), 2020–2022
Cristian Ortiz (Chile), 2019–2021
Stefan Rammelt (Germany), 2015–2020
Michael Swords (USA), 2017–2019
Mandeep Dhillon (India), 2016–2018
Marcos Sakaki (Brazil), 2014–2016
Les Grujic (Australia), 2011–2015
Per-Henrik Agren (Sweden), 2011–2014
Christina Kabbash (USA), 2011–2013
Andrew Oppy (Australia)
Paulo Felicissimo (Portugal)
Are Stødle (Norway)
Eric Moghadamian (USA)
Hussam Darwish (Saudi Arabia)
Santiago Guerrero (Colombia)
Ahmed Al-Rashdi (Oman)
Kyle Schweser (USA)
Khairul Mohammad (Malaysia)
Markus Parkkinen (Finland)
Igors Terjajevs (Latvia)
Brad Yoo (USA)
Martijn Poeze (Netherlands)
Mike Swords (USA)
Andrew Sands (USA)
Michael Castro (USA)
Steve Benirschke (USA)
Daniel Nino Gomez (Argentina)
Luis Cadena (Mexico)
Ahmed Kholeif (Egypt)
Mandeep Dhillon (India)
Ossama Elshazly (Egypt)
Keen Wai Chong (Singapore)
Lori Reed (USA)
Alexandre Godoy-Santos (Brazil)
“This curriculum redesign promotes interactive learning and offers a robust and flexible framework to build education that improves health care delivery. I'm sure it will equip our surgeon learners with better tools for improving their patients' outcomes.”
Stefan Rammelt (DE), former member of the foot and ankle education taskforce
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