Pelvis and acetabulum

Pelvic and acetabular fractures are among the most serious injuries treated by orthopedic surgeons and require rapid and precise treatment. In response, AO Trauma's pelvis education taskforce has defined a comprehensive curriculum to address these challenges.

Pelvis and acetabulum education taskforce

The pelvis and acetabulum education taskforce is a group of experts who build and continuously improve our educational program. It consists of three international program editors (IPEs).

Regional Program Contributors (RPCs)

Asia Pacific
Rahat Jarayabhand (Thailand)
Won-Tae Cho (South Korea)

Europe and Southern Africa
Sithombo Maqungo (South Africa)
Pedro Caba (Spain)

Middle East and Northern Africa
Ahmed Abdelazeem (Egypt)
Abdulla S Alzahrani (Saudi Arabia)

Latin America
Marco Altamirano Cruz (Mexico)
Adrien RoaZoppi (Venezuela)

North America
Ray Wright (USA)
Michael Leslie (USA)

AO Curriculum Development Manager:

Michael Cunningham

Past taskforce members

Past IPEs

Jorge Barla (Argentina), 2018–2023
Stephen Sims (USA), 2020–2022
Mahmoud Abdel Karim Mohamed (Egypt), 2019–2021
Marius Keel (Switzerland), 2017–2019
Michael Stover (USA), 2016–2018
Zsolt Balogh (Australia), 2015–2017
Keith Mayo (USA), 2012–2015
Matej Cimerman (Slovenia), 2012–2014
Andrew Vincent (New Zealand), 2012–2012
Past RPCs

Anuraklekha Surapong (Thailand)
Yang Minghui (China)
Alexander Hofmann (Germany)
Ahmed Alghamdi (Saudi Arabia)
Tito Rocha (Brazil)
David Stephen (Canada)
Muhammad Wajid (Pakistan)
Said Saghieh (Lebanon)
Zsolt Balogh (Australia)
Takeshi Sawaguchi (Japan)
Stephen Sims (USA)
Milton Routt (USA)
Roger Wilber (USA)
Daniel Schweitzer (Chile)
Edgardo Ramos (Mexico)
Ismail Hadisoebroto Dilogo (Indonesia)

Program description

The AO Trauma Pelvis and Acetabulum curriculum consists of 11 modules and aims to provide chairpersons with a range of options to combine for the educational event of the highest relevance to their audience and to fit a given participant expertise level and timeframe.

Online and blended variations of the event formats have been defined. A full-day (or multiple part days) anatomical specimen lab can be added when infrastructure is available.

Events defined in the curriculum

AO Trauma Course—Pelvic and Acetabular Fracture Management (3 days)
AO Trauma Course—Pelvic Fracture Management
AO Trauma Course—Acetabular Fracture Management

Target audiences

Surgeons whose primary need is to learn or improve skills in pelvic and acetabular surgery, from various training paths:

Orthopedics: sub-specialists, fellowship trained, pelvic-acetabular surgeons, general training
Trauma: fellowship training, general training

Resources

Competencies

Perform emergency clinical assessment with specific focus to pelvic ring and hemodynamic instability. Apply ATLS protocols
Recognize when and how to perform emergency stabilization
Perform secondary full patient assessment
Order and interpret imaging evaluations
Plan treatment—acute and definitive
Assess the impact of comorbidities and concomitant injuries
Plan and perform approach, reduction, and fixation
Prevent, identify, and address complications
Adapt treatment according to specific bone structure / quality
Delineate and perform postoperative management protocol
Perform salvage techniques

What does competency-based curriculum development mean?

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Contacts

To address feedback or questions to this education taskforce, email the Curriculum Development Manager Michael Cunningham.

Pelvis and acetabulum