BOFAS Journal Club

During the COVID-19 pandemic, BOFAS responded to the need to keep our members both updated with knowledge and feeling connected. We have adopted a series of novel approaches to online education.

EdComm and SciComm launched a new joint initiative in April 2021 and this has been very successfully received. The concept is a BOFAS Journal Club, to which all Consultant members are invited to discuss academic papers on key subjects in Foot & Ankle. This initiative aims to connect our Consultant members together in a discussion of interesting new and classic academic papers, across the full range of topics in Foot & Ankle Surgery. Every two months, the hour long webinar will present the aims, strengths and weakness of the papers, along with reflections from the senior authors themselves from across the world. The Moderators co-ordinate live questions and explore how the papers have moved forward our clinical practice.

Key Highlights:

  • This series is aimed at Consultant level.
  • We invite the key authors, who are leaders in the field from all over the world.
  • Each webinar is one hour long.
  • The series is run alternate months.
  • There are two co-chairmen, who will facilitate and direct questions submitted from the members. 
  • There is an over arching theme for each webinar, which will link together two or three papers.  Each paper will need 20 minutes or so for presentation, reflections from the author, questions from members and learning points.

 

Please note that due to copyright issues, we are unable to distribute the articles to the membership. Kindly request the above articles through your Trust and peruse them prior to the session. 

 


 

Forthcoming Journal Clubs

 

Date/Time: TBC
Moderators: TBC
Topic: TBC
Invited Senior Authors: TBC
 
Papers:
 
TBC
 
Registration Link TBC
 
 

Please note that we are moving to a new platform, Medall, for our webinars. You will need to register the first time you use it, but will able to receive your attendance certificates on that platform and use the same registration for any webinar. 

 
 
 
 

 

Previous BOFAS Journal Club Events:

Click here for the entire playlist on Youtube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0j0wRNF1Vs1b1TvvPgYJjxpT8x-1wr4R

 

Journal Club 13: "Weightbearing CT - A Light Shining in the Darkness"

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Date/Time: Tuesday, 13th February 2024
Moderators: James Ritchie & Nijil Vasukutty
Topic: Weightbearing CT: A Light Shining in the Darkness
Invited Senior Authors: Francois Lintz & Ali Najefi
 
Papers:
 
 
Journal Club 12: "Prosthetic Joint Infection"

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Journal Club 11: "The Arthroereisis Screw: God's Gift or the Work of Satan?"

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Date/Time: Wednesday, 13th September 2023
Moderators: James Ritchie & Nijil Vasukutty
Topic: The Arthroereisis Screw: God's Gift or the Work of Satan?
Invited Senior Authors: Nick Cullen & Francois Lintz
 
Papers:
 
 
Journal Club 10: "Minimally Invasive Techniques in Hindfoot Surgery"

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Date/Time: Wednesday, 17th May 2023
Moderators: James Ritchie & Nijil Vasukutty
Topic: Minimally Invasive Techniques in Hindfoot Surgery
Invited Senior Authors: Mike Butler & Bob Sharpe
 
Papers:
 
 
Journal Club 09: "Platelet Rich Plasma in the Foot & Ankle"

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Date/Time: Wednesday, 8th February 2023
Moderators: James Ritchie & Sarah Johnson-Lynn
Topic: Platelet Rich Plasma in the Foot & Ankle
Invited Senior Authors: Tim Clough & Joseph Alsousou
 
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Journal Club 08: "3D Printing in Hindfoot Surgery"

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Journal Club 07: "Achilles Tendon Ruptures Management"

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Journal Club 06: "Which 1st MTPJ Arthroplasty?"

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Date/Time: Thursday, 21st April 2022
Moderator: Ian Sharpe
Topic: Which 1st MTPJ Arthroplasty?
Invited Senior Authors: Chris Blundell & Tim Clough
 
Papers:
 
 
Journal Club 05: "Ankle Arthritis"

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Date/Time: Thursday, 20th January 2022
Moderators: Callum Clarke & David Townshend
Topic: Ankle Arthritis
Invited Senior Authors: Ian Winson & Sunil Dhar
 
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Journal Club 04: "Adult Flat Foot"

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Journal Club 03: "Lis Franc Injuries"

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Date/Time: Thursday, 9th September 2021
Moderators: James Ritchie & Togay Koç
Topic: Lis Franc Injuries
Invited Senior Authors: Chris Coetzee & Jit Mangwani
 
Papers:
 
 
Journal Club 02: "Morton's Neuromata"

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Date/Time: Thursday, 17th June 2021
Moderators: Dave Townshend & Con Loizou
Topic: Controversies with Morton's Neuromata
Invited Senior Authors: Maneesh Bhatia & Mattias Rab
 
Papers:
 
Presented by: Vidhi Adukia, Orthopaedic Registrar, University Hospitals Leicester
 
Presented by: Adrian Kendall, Foot & Ankle Fellow, Oxford
 
Journal Club 01: "Advances in Hindfoot deformity"

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Date/Time: Thursday, 22nd April 2021
Moderators: Paul Halliwell & Rajesh Kakwani
Topic: Advances in Hindfoot Deformity Correction
Invited Senior Authors: Paul Cooke & Ian Winson
 
Papers: