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Conference Presentation ·31 January 2018

Paris Shoulder Course

In transit to the Paris Shoulder Course
In transit to the Paris Shoulder Course

In transit

Attending the Paris Shoulder Course, held on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 February 2018. Pictured in transit.

In transit to the Paris Shoulder Course

What a shoulder course is for

An instructional course is a short, concentrated meeting organised around teaching rather than around the presentation of new research. The programme is usually set by a faculty of surgeons who work on the same problems, and it mixes structured lectures with case presentations, video of operations, and discussion of the situations where surgeons genuinely disagree about what to do. Some courses add practical sessions so that techniques can be rehearsed rather than only described.

The subject matter at a shoulder course tends to follow the conditions that fill a shoulder practice: instability, where the joint comes partly or completely out of place; tears of the rotator cuff tendons that lift and rotate the arm; stiffness; and arthritis severe enough to be considered for joint replacement. Each of these has several reasonable treatment options, and the choice between them depends on the individual patient, the imaging and the examination findings. Individual results vary.

Why surgeons travel to attend

Shoulder surgery is a comparatively small field, and the people doing the most work on any given problem are spread across a number of countries. A course brings that group into one room for two days. The value is partly the formal programme and partly the unstructured part: watching how an experienced surgeon describes a decision, hearing which approaches have been abandoned and why, and being able to put a difficult case to several colleagues at once.

Continuing education of this kind is also a formal requirement of medical registration in Australia. Specialists are expected to maintain and document ongoing professional development throughout their working life, and attendance at recognised courses and scientific meetings forms part of that record.

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