Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) 75th Annual Scientific Meeting

There are many challenges facing our current orthopaedic trainees and young orthopaedic surgeons. Advancing technologies are providing increasing numbers of treatment options, but the cost of these has to be balanced against any measurable improvement in outcome these new treatments may bring.

Society is demanding orthopaedic surgeons have not only high levels of technical skill and orthopaedic knowledge throughout their careers, but are surgeons with compassion, who have a social conscience, who are good communicators, whose judgement is sound, and who as expected of those following a profession, behave ethically.