{"id":6357,"date":"2023-09-07T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2023-10-17T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:28:28","slug":"school-hosts-first-orthopaedic-short-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/school-hosts-first-orthopaedic-short-course\/","title":{"rendered":"School hosts first orthopaedic short course"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6358\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6358\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/10\/Lower-Limb-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trainers and delegates pose outside the School of Medicine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On 31 August, the School of Medicine hosted its first orthopaedic offering, &#8220;Lower Limb Surgical Approaches,&#8221; as part of its short-course programme.<\/p>\n<p>This cadaveric course was aimed at doctors training in Orthopaedic Surgery within Scotland and run by experienced faculty from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsfife.org\/services\/all-services\/trauma-and-orthopaedics-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS Fife\u2019s Orthopaedic Surgery Department<\/a>. This includes Clinical Teaching Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/people\/pw38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Phillip Walmsley<\/a> and Honorary Senior Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/people\/maa32\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Muhammad Adeel Akhtar<\/a>, both consultant orthopaedic surgeons<\/p>\n<p>Trainers focused on providing delegates with practical skills in the various surgical approaches used in the lower limb for both emergency and planned surgical situations. The course involved a mix of cadaveric teaching and short tutorials using clinical cases.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone enjoyed the day, and the feedback was extremely positive. Attendees praised the course as \u201cwell thought out and delivered\u201d and noted the excellent instructor-to-learner ratio. Plans are underway to expand on this success with additional iterations of this course and development of more courses on other surgical areas and techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 August, the School of Medicine hosted its first orthopaedic offering, &#8220;Lower Limb Surgical Approaches,&#8221; as part of its short-course programme. This cadaveric course was aimed at doctors training in Orthopaedic Surgery within Scotland and run by experienced faculty from NHS Fife\u2019s Orthopaedic Surgery Department. This includes Clinical Teaching Fellow Dr Phillip Walmsley and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[1303,1304,1291],"class_list":["post-6357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edu","category-news","tag-dr-phillip-walmsley","tag-orthopaedics","tag-short-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 00:39:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}