AO Grand Rounds

AO Grand Rounds, designed exclusively for AO Trauma faculty, is the stress-free way to organize high-quality, regular, in-hospital training events for junior orthopedic trauma surgeons, residents, and general trauma surgeons.

Meeting the recurring obligation of providing in-hospital training and education for your surgical staff can be challenging, given your busy schedule.

AO Grand Rounds offers a free-of-charge, education platform comprising of a library of ready-made, high-quality, relevant, and topical surgical training modules. As AO Trauma faculty, you can easily access it online through the dashboard to efficiently organize training events at your workplace for your hospital surgical staff, on a date and time of your choice.

Currently, event packages for four training modules are available in the dashboard:

• Acute compartment syndrome
• Polytrauma
• Management of open fractures
• Best practices in geriatric hip fractures

(Open to AO Trauma faculty members only) 

The highly interactive modules enable AO Trauma 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
• Optional practical exercises
• 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.