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Conference Presentation ·10 June 2024

KSES 2024 in Seoul

The Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society scientific meeting in Seoul
The Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society scientific meeting in Seoul

The meeting in Gangnam

Dr Kenneth Cutbush spoke at the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society scientific meeting in Seoul. The meeting, held in Gangnam, featured 47 invited international speakers.

The Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society scientific meeting in Seoul Presenting at the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society meeting International faculty at KSES 2024 in Seoul Delegates at the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society meeting

With thanks to JC Yoo, current president of the Korean Shoulder Society, for his hospitality.

Affiliations: QUASR, the ARC Training Centre for Joint Biomechanics, St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, QUT and The University of Queensland.

What the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society is

The Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society, usually shortened to KSES, is the national organisation in Korea for surgeons whose practice is concentrated on the shoulder and elbow. Its main activity is a scientific meeting at which members present their research, instructional sessions are run for surgeons in training, and invited faculty give talks on nominated subjects. Shoulder societies in most countries are organised along these lines, and each has an elected president who leads the organising committee.

Korea has been a substantial contributor to shoulder research, particularly in arthroscopic technique and in rotator cuff surgery, and a meeting that invites 47 international speakers is set up as an exchange rather than a domestic programme with a few overseas guests.

Why international faculty are invited

Inviting speakers from a range of countries puts different approaches to the same problem side by side in one room. Surgeons work under different constraints depending on where they practise: the imaging available to them, the implants their health system funds, the stage at which patients present, and how their trainees are taught all differ. Hearing a technique described by someone working under a different set of constraints is a useful check on whether it depends on the technique itself or on the circumstances around it.

For the invited speaker the exchange runs the other way as well. Being on the programme means being present for the rest of it, and the contacts made at a meeting of this kind are what later support visiting arrangements, fellowship places and multi-centre research. Techniques in shoulder surgery spread through this sort of direct contact between surgeons at least as much as through journals. Any individual patient's treatment is decided on their own examination and imaging. Individual results vary.

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