Orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (BE: orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with acute, chronic, traumatic, and recurrent injuries and other disorders of the locomotor system, its muscular and bone parts. Apart from the mechanical considerations, it also is concerned with the pathology, genetics, intrinsic, extrinsic, and biomechanical factors involved.

Qualifications

Orthopedic surgeons are M.D.s or D.O.s in the USA and Canada and MBBSs in the United Kingdom, who have also taken five to seven years of advanced post-graduate training. In most nations they obtain a qualification such as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (UK) or Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (USA). After that they start practice or may serve a training fellowship in any of several sub-specialty areas, such as sports medicine, traumatology, reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, foot & ankle surgery, spine surgery, rheumatological surgery, pediatric orthopedics, geriatric orthopedics, or industrial medicine. In India, they are either D'Ortho, MS(Ortho) or DNB(Ortho) and obtain their degrees following two to three years of post-graduate training. Many orthopaedic surgeons from developing countries obtain qualifications in Europe or North America. Prior to the 1960s most fractures were treated by general surgeons but since then orthopaedic surgery has developed into a specialty covering reconstruction and trauma in the musculoskeletal system.

Related Topics:
USA - Canada - United Kingdom - Sports medicine - Traumatology - Reconstructive surgery - Hand surgery - Rheumatological surgery - India

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