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The aim is to give Overseas Trainee Orthopaedic Surgeons a solid grounding in the principles and the decision making in Foot & Ankle Surgery.

There is an emphasis on clinical examination of cases, small group discussions and learning surgical approaches in the cadaver lab.

This is the first course BOFAS is running in UAE and the aim is to expand the Foot and Ankle education and training in the Middle East and Gulf area.

Venue - Le Meridien, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

These courses are aimed at Higher Surgical Trainees / ST3 onwards and are designed to teach the core of Foot and Ankle surgery in an informal and interactive environment. The emphasis is on clinical examination cases, discussion groups and typical day-to-day clinic scenarios. Although not an exam preparation course, content is taught to the standard expected in the FRCS(Tr & Orth) exam; that of a day-one non-specialist orthopaedic consultant. Applications will open on 1st September 2023.

Venue - Taunton (TBC)

¹Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, Orthopaedic Surgery (NOCERAL), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

²Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Orthopaedic Surgery (NOCERAL), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Winner of the BOFAS 2024 First Trainee Prize & Klenerman Prize for Basic Science Paper (Podium)

¹University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

²Department of Orthopaedics, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

³United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁴Wolfson Diabetes and Endocrine Clinic, Wellcome- MRC Insitute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom

¹Oxford University Hospitals, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

¹Basildon Hospital, Orthopaedics, Basildon, United Kingdom

¹Royal Victoria Infirmary, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

¹Schulthess Klinik, Zurich, Switzerland

²University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland