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The Orthopod

The Official Publication of the
American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics

    • Leadership Notes
      • AOAO Committees Focus on Strategic Plan
      • Status of Residency Programs: Single Accreditation System Update
      • Passing of the Baton
    • CME Updates
      • What is going on at the AOAO meetings?
        By Dennis Blackburn, DO, FAOAO
        CME Chair
      • Congratulations to This Year’s Award Recipients!
    • Residents & Students
      • RAOAO Update
      • New SAOAO National Board
    • Membership News
      • The Apprentice Model for Resident Training – It’s Undervalued!
      • 2019 AOAO Leadership Seminar: May 4-5
      • Congratulations Steven D. Morton, DO, FAOAO – New AOAO President
      • DO’s that Do: Flying High with Dr. Greg Barnhill, Plane and Helicopter Owner/Pilot
      • Welcome New Members!
      • Thank You to Edward Armbruster, DO, FAOAO – Exiting Editor of The Orthopod
      • The Funky Three-Legged Stool and the Holy Trinity of the Osteopathic Profession
      • Board of Directors
    • General Articles
      • So Many Journals, So Little Time!
      • Global Outreach
      • AOAO Introduces New Ambassador Program in 2019
      • 2018 – A Good Year!
      • Call for Associate Editors
    • Abstracts
      • Arthritis Research UK Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire (MSK-HQ) as an Indicator of Health Status and Health Literacy in an Urban Setting
      • The Financial Impact of Surgical Site Infection in Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus Patients Undergoing Open Reduction Internal Fixation Procedures
      • The Role of In-Office Diagnostic Needle Arthroscopy for Intra-Articular Knee Symptoms With a Normal MRI: A case report for ACL Insufficiency

What is going on at the AOAO meetings?
By Dennis Blackburn, DO, FAOAO
CME Chair

Well, we are providing you with specialty specific CME in osteopathic orthopedics. We are also providing you with your required opioid CME credits, physician health and wellness, and business-related education ranging from investment planning to coding. We will continue to assist you with meeting your state and the AOA requirements with regards to CME credits.

Sessions highlighting research help show the quality of work that our students, residents and fellows have been doing over the years.

In addition to quality lectures in all specialty topics, we have had some outstanding Fireside Chats that provided a way to discuss difficult cases with colleagues and earn extra CME credit. These Chats have been hugely successful and valued by those who participated.

Other features at our meetings have been “Live Poll” Q & A as well as “Ask the Speaker”. Sessions utilized the Live Poll feature allowed for the audience to participate in the education and gave the speaker a way to determine the audience’s knowledge. Ask the Speaker provides a way for the audience to post questions to the speaker without standing at the microphone. We encourage each and every speaker to utilize these options to help maximize your experience and enhance your knowledge.

As with everything in life – changes are coming!

Annual Spring Meeting, a.k.a. the Postgraduate Seminar
Our Postgraduate Seminar will be rebranded as the “Annual Spring Meeting”. We have one every year! [Captain Obvious] At the 2019 Annual Spring Meeting, we will begin offering a Board Review Session. This four-hour session will provide “high yield” subspecialty topics commonly tested on board certification, recertification and, In-service exams.

Annual Fall Meeting, a.k.a. the Annual Meeting
Beginning with the 2019 Annual Fall Meeting, top research paper winners will present their work within each session rather than at the regular Residents and Fellows Session. Digital poster presentations will be offered in the main session rooms on Thursday evening, with refreshments. Please support our students, residents and fellows by attending these presentations. For the foreseeable future, the Awards Ceremony will be scheduled on Friday evenings (rather than Thursday as in the past). At each Annual Fall meeting, we will offer lectures that provide updates on the AOBOS board certification and re-certification process, changes within the AOA and other business-related topics that affect your daily practice.

Ongoing Projects
On another broader note, you all know from your emails and word of mouth that our Bylaws changed to allow our allopathic brethren the ability to join the AOAO. We are researching the ability to provide CME credit to our MD partners.

We are getting you involved, educated, and reunited with old friends. So plan to attend in 2019 at the Annual Spring Meeting in Orlando, Florida and the Annual Meeting at the Broadmoor.

Have any thoughts about future orthopedic lectures or topics to meet your state’s CME requirements? Contact me at blade6769@gmail.com.

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October 28 – 30, 2021
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About the Orthopod

The Academy’s e-newsletter is published three times annually.

Editor:
Steven J. Heithoff, DO, FAOAO
Orthopodeditor@aoao.org

Contributors:
Kyle J. Busch, DO, MS PGY-5
Adam LaFleur
James S. Mason, DO, FAOAO
Fred McAlpin, III, DO, FAOAO
Gary S. Ulrich, DO, FAOAO, FACOS

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