The scientists of tomorrow’
Fifty-six students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences campus in Winterthur explored a variety of skeletal repair topics during a hands-on skeletal repair course, April 26–27, 2019, at the AO Center in Davos.
The group—33 master’s students from the ETH Zurich Department of Health Sciences and Technology and 23 bachelor’s biomedical engineering students from ZHAW—got the rare opportunity to learn from world-class skeletal repair experts and work in the state-of-the art AO Research Institute Davos (ARI) labs.
“What was really unique about this course were its hands-on aspect and the opportunities for students to interact closely with the surgeons,” said Grad who also is adjunct professor in biomedical engineering in the Health Sciences and Technologies Department at ETH Zurich. “At AO Research Institute Davos, we are helping to train the scientists of tomorrow—and that is important because there still are a lot of unsolved clinical questions in the area of skeletal repair.”