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Courses

Undergraduate Phase 111 Module 8 ,MB ChB IV MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM THEME 1: MUSCULO SKELETAL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFORMITIES SESSION 1: MUSCULOSKELETAL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFORMITIES THEME 2: CLINICAL INVESTIGATIVE METHODS SESSION 1: ALIGNMENT AND ROTATION DEFORMITIES OF THE LIMBS, GAITS, LEG LENGTH DISCREPANCIES AND THE EXAMINATION OF A JOINT THEME 2: CLINICAL INVESTIGATIVE METHODS SESSION 2&3: PAIN GRADING – MUSCLE POWER – SPASTICITY – MIOTOME INNERVATION – DERMATOME INNOVATION – LOWER MOTOR NEURON DISEASE – UPPER MOTOR NEURON DISEASE SESSION 4: EXAMINATION OF THE NECK AND SHOULDER SESSION 5: EXAMINATION OF THE BACK SESSION 6: EXAMINATION OF THE ELBOW, FOREARM AND HAND SESSION 7: CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE HIP AND KNEE SESSION 8: EXAMINATION OF THE FOOT AND ANKLE THEME 3: X-RAY INVESTIGATION OF THE MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM SESSION 1: APPROPRIATE X-RAY EXAMINATIONS SESSION 2: GENERAL RADIOLOGICAL SIGNS OF TRAUMATIC AND NON TRAUMATIC BONE AND JOINT CONDITIONS SESSION 3: NUCLEAR MEDICINE AS DIAGNOSTIC MODALITY IN MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM

THEME 4: INFECTIOUS CONDITIONS OF THE MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM SESSION 1 & 2: GENERAL PATHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES SESSION 2: GROUP STUDY SESSION 3: MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BONE, JOINT- AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTION SESSION 4: ACUTE SEPTIC ARTHRITIS AND OSTEOMYOLITIS SESSION 5: NON-PYOGENIC INFECTIONS OF BONE AND JOINTS SESSION 6 & 7: CLINICAL PROBLEM SOLVING, CHRONIC OSTEOMYOLITIS SESSION 8: HAND INFECTIONS THEME 5: RHEUMATOLOGY IN ENGLISH THEME 6: CONGENITAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM SESSION 1: ALIGNMENT AND ROTATIONAL DEFORMITIES OF THE LOWER LIMBS, LEG PAINS IN CHILDREN AND OSTEOCHONDROSES SESSION 2: CONGENITAL CLUB FEET, METATARSUS ADDUCTUS, CAVE FEET, TOE DEFORMITIES AND FLAT FEET IN CHILDREN SESSION 3: CONGENITAL HIP DISPLASIA, PERTHES DISEASE OF THE HIP AND SLIPPED PROXIMAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS SESSION 4 & 5: SHOES FOR CHILDREN’S FEET SESSION 6: DISEASE

ORTHOPAEDIC

ASPECTS

OF

NEUROMUSCULAR

THEME 7: ONCOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM SESSION 1 & 2: GENERAL PATHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES SESSION 3 & 4: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY BONE TUMOURS SESSION 5: SOFT TISSUE TUMOURS

THEME 8: CONDITIONS OF THE PELVIS AND SPINAL COLUMN SESSION 1 & 2: SCOLIOSIS AND KYPHOSIS SESSION 3: NECK PAIN IN ADULTS SESSION 4: BACKACHE IN ADULTS SESSION 5: THE GENERAL CAUSES OF PELVIC PAIN

THEME 9: CONDITIONS AND DEFORMITIES OF THE UPPER LIMBS SESSION 1: THE BRACHIAL PLEXUS SESSION 2: DEGENERATIVE ARTHRITIS, ROTATOR CUFF LESIONS AND INSTABILITY OF THE SHOULDER GIRDLE SESSION 3: EPICONDYLITIS AND ARTHRITIS OF THE ELBOW JOINT SESSION 4: SWELLING AROUND THE PULSE, DE QUERVAIN SINOVITIS KIENBOCK’S DISEASE AND ARTHRITIS OF THE WRIST SESSION 5: RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS OF THE HAND SESSION 6: CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME SESSION 7: CONDITIONS AND DEFORMITIES OF THE HAND THEME 10: CONDITIONS AND DEFORMITIES OF THE LOWER LIMBS SESSION 1: OSTEOARTHRITIS AND AVASCULAR NECROSIS OF THE HIP SESSION 2: PAINFUL HIP PROBLEM SOLVING SESSION 3: ANGULAR DEFORMITIES OF THE KNEE, OSTEOTOMY AND KNEE REPLACEMENTS SESSION 4: CHRONIC MENISCUS INJURIES, CHRONIC KNEE INSTABILITY AND PATELLA INSTABILITIES SESSION 5 & 6: THE SPORTSMAN WITH A PAINFUL LOWER LEG (B) THE ILIOTIBIAL BAND SYNDROME SESSION 7: CHRONIC INSTABILITY OF THE ANKLE JOINT, DEGENARATIVE CONDITIONS OF THE ANKLE, CAVUS FEET AND FLAT FEET IN ADULTS

SESSION 8: HEEL PAIN AND FORE-FOOT PAIN AND DEFORMITIES TRAUMA AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT OF FRACTURES AND THEME 11: GENERAL PRINCIPALS OF RESUSCITATION AFTER DISLOCATIONS SESSION 1: RESUSCITATION AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT THEME 12: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TRAUMATIC CONDITIONS SESSION 1: FRACTURE PATTERNS, OPEN FRACTURES, GROWTH PLATE INJURIES SESSION 2: THE PRINCIPLES OF FRACTURE AND DISLOCATION REDUCTION AND IMMOBILISATION. THE PRINCIPLES OF OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION SESSION 3:THREATENING COMPARTMENT SYNDROME, NONACCIDENT INJURY SYNDROME REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SESSION 4: GENERAL COMPLICATIONS OF FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS THEME 13: PLASTER TECHNIQUE SPLINTING AND BANDAGES SESSION 1-2: PLASTER TECHNIQUES AND PLASTER APPLICATION OF LIMB INJURIES SESSION 3: SPLINTS AND BANDAGES FOR LIMB INJURIES THEME 14: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE VERTABRAE AND PELVIS SESSION 1: CLINICAL APPEARANCE AND INCIDENTS OF VERTEBRAE FRACTURES SESSION 2: THE CARING ASPECTS OF PARAPLEGICS AND TETRAPLEGICS IN THE POST INJURY PERIOD SESSION 3: TRANSPORT OF A TETRAPLEGIC THEME 15: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE UPPER LIMBS SESSION 1: FRACTURES AND DISCLOCATIONS OF THE SHOULDER GIRDLE SESSION 2, 3: IMMOBILISATION TECHNIQUES OF THE SHOULDER GIRDLE

SESSION 4: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE ELBOW SESSION 5: FOREARM FRACTURES SESSION 6: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS AROUND THE WRIST SESSION 7-8: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE HAND AND FINGERS THEME 16: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE LOWER LIMBS SESSION 1: HIP DISLOCATIONS, FEMUR NECK, INTERTROCHANTERIC AND FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURES SESSION 2: THOMAS SPLINT TECHNIQUES OF THE LOWER LIMB AND SKELETAL TRACTION OF THE LOWER LIMB SESSION 3: FRACTURES OF THE DISTAL FEMUR, PROXIMAL TIBIA AND PATELLA AND LIGAMENT INJURIES OF THE KNEE AND DISLOCATIONS SESSION 4-5: THE LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF KNEE LIGAMENT AND MENISCAL INJURIES SESSION 6: FRACTURES OF THE TIBIA SHAFT AND PLAFOND SESSION 7: SPRAINS, FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE ANKLE SESSION 8: FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS OF THE TARSAL, METATARSAL BONE AND PHALANGES OF THE FOOT THEME 17: SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE MUSCULO SKELETAL SYSTEM SESSION 1: MUSCULO SKELETAL TERMINOLOGY AND DEFORMITIES SESSION 2-3: APPROPRIATE WOUND COVERAGE, WOUND HEALING THEME 18: BURN WOUNDS SESSION 1: BURN WOUNDS THEME 19: REHABILITATION, ORTHOSIS SESSION 1: SESSION 2:

Post Graduate MMED (ORTHOP), POST GRADUATE DEGREE Course consists of : 1.

Primary Anatomy, Physiology Pathology

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Intermediate Intensive care – management Bone tumours Orthopaedic Pathology

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Final exam Two written papers of 3 hours each Clinical assessment: 1. Operative skills 2. Clinical cases 2.1 One long case 2.2 Four short cases 2.3 Oral on plaster techniques and orthosis The minimum requirements to enter training programme: 1. MB ChB degree 2. Two years post-graduate experience The student will do a 6 monthly rotation through the various inter departemental units to gain experience in all aspects of orthopaedics. He also rotates through intensive care and other surgical disciplines eg. Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Conradie Hospital – Paraplegic Unit.