The 34th SICOT orthopaedic world congress

摘要

SICOT remains on track with its continuous expansion. The membership has now reached 11,500 members with a large representation in Asia and Europe. Our Journal International Orthopaedics offers you 4,062 articles available online and its impact factor is 2.319 in 2012. The scientific programme of our next meeting in Hyderabad is extremely promising. The number of submitted abstracts continues to increase each year. During the three-day meeting from 17 to 19 October you will be able to attend four plenary lectures, an Educational Day on Trauma, 32 symposia, 15 instructional courses, multiple workshops, and no less than 46 free paper sessions in ten parallel rooms. The plenary speakers are Jose Sergio Franco, Dror Paley, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, and Steffen Ruchholtz. They have been chosen for their outstanding expertise and will lecture on proximal humerus fractures, on limb lengthening and deformity correction, on spine, and on the management of polytrauma, respectively. This year the theme of the Educationah Day (ED) is Trauma. The expert Faculty from ten different countries will be delivering their specialist lectures throughout the day. The two previous ED in Prague and Dubai were respectively on the hip and knee and were very successful. The aim of the SICOT ED is to provide a comprehensive review course for residents and an evidence-based update for experienced surgeons. The 15 Instructional Courses (IC) will cover the main and more specialised aspects of our profession from polytrauma management to microsurgery and tissue engineering. As in previous years, an IC will be devoted to "How to write a paper" with the participation of the Editor of International Orthopaedics, Marko Pecina.