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
David Stephen (Canada)
Term: 2025–2027
Jorge Velarde (Panama)
Term: 2026–2028
Ismail Hadisoebroto Dilogo (ID)
Term: 2024–2026
Regional Program Contributors (RPCs)
Asia Pacific
Rahat Jarayabhand (Thailand)
Won-Tae Cho (South Korea)
Europe and Southern Africa
Yoram Weil (Israel)
Jordi Teixidor (Spain)
Middle East and Northern Africa
Hani Zamil (Saudi Arabia)
Ali Jarragh (Kuwait)
Latin America
Gustavo Tadeu Sanchez (Brazil)
Marco Rebatta (Peru)
North America
Jon Eastman (USA)
Conor Kleweno (USA)
AO Curriculum Development Manager:
Past taskforce members
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
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Resources for faculty
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Resources
Courses and webinars
AO Surgery Reference
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
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Contacts
To address feedback or questions to this education taskforce, email the Curriculum Development Manager Michael Cunningham.