Newsletter 2003-2004 (Issue 1)

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Editorial Board

Dr. Robert Y.P. Chang Dr. Chan Chi-wai

Contents:

Editorial ………….....................……………………………………………………………….…….

President’s message …….....................…………………………………………..................… New council …….....................……………………………………………………………………..

Exit exam 2002 …….....................……………………………………………………….………..

Exit exam 2003 …….....................……………………………………………………….………..

Amendment of constitution …….....................………………………………………………… CME cycle …….....................…………………………………………………..………………….… Specialty development …….....................………………………………………………….…… China link .

…….....................………………………………………………………………….…… 15th year anniversary …….....................………………………………………………….…..… Trainees’ column …….....................………………………………………………….…..………..

Photos of 2002 exit exam, College dinner, dinner lecture ……......................………… Acknowledgement …….....................…………………….………………………….…..………..

Announcement for Research Grant (HKCOS and HHSRF) …….....................…………..

Announcement for Bone and Joint Decade (BJD) 2000-2010 …….....................……..

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Greetings from the Council 2003-2004!

Thank you for visiting the website of your College ( fellows and trainees, local and abroad.

http://www.hkcos.org.hk

). It is our hope that it could serve a better means of communication with all members including Please contact our executive secretary for your personal ID and password if you have forgotten. We do appreciate that not everyone prefer the internet. Please inform us if you strongly prefer paper newsletter.

Please check your personal data on our database, and inform our secretary for updates.

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Message from the President

Prof. KS Leung

Dear fellows and Orthopaedic Trainees, First of all, may I wish you all a very healthy and fruitful year in 2003 and the year of Goat.

With the new council in office, I would like to take this opportunity to high light the major tasks we are going to achieve in the coming two years. This is not meant to be exclusive and we would appreciate very much your feedback and suggestions.

Organising and improving training and education programs remain as the one of the major tasks. To continue with the on-going program, more research and analysis are needed to support and guide changes and modifications. In this aspect, I would like to plead here for the assistance and suggestions from all trainers and trainees for their feedbacks.

The fact that the decrease in the intake of trainees in the coming years also leads us to consider some adjustments in the educational program. The new council will start to organise more structured education program for our fellows. These include refresher courses, training the trainers courses and appraisal courses.

One of the items that were discussed in Mainland.

2002 Retreat is the relationship with the corresponding mainland professional bodies. The new council has setup a subcommittee to start the project. We need your help and support in the coming activities, especially the senior fellows who have already established many professional links with the On the other direction, the position of the College in the international professional platform should also be identified. As a relatively young organisation and yet a statutory professional body, we would like to bring the College to the scene of strategy.

international orthopaedic professional fraternity. A subcommittee is also formed and to plan the The direction towards sub-specialisation (perhaps, specialisation, to me a more appropriate term in regard to generalist) should also need to be re-considered since the 2000 Retreat. The benefit of patient care with specialisation is in fact in line with our orthopaedic professional development in the past decades and sub-specialisation is another stage of the development. With the successful set up of Orthopaedic Rehabilitation as a specialty, I believe the whole issue should be critically analysed again.

Once again, I thank you for the support you have given to the new council and I am confident that the new council will work their best to serve you - the college. Your participation and feedback are most appreciated!

Happy New Year!

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New council 2003-2004

President: Vice-President: College Censor: Honorary Secretary: Honorary Treasurer: Immediate Past President: Council Members: Prof. Leung Kwok-sui Dr. Lee Po-chin Prof. Hung Leung-kim Dr. Robert Y.P. Chang Dr. Ngai Wai-kit Dr. Yeung Sai-hung Dr. Chan Chi-wai Dr. Peter K.Y. Chiu Dr. Chun Siu-yeung Dr. Ho Yuen-fong Dr. Wu Wing-cheung Referring to structure of the new council, please note ‘specialty development’ panel of Dr. SH Yeung, Prof. LK Hung, Dr. SY Chun, Dr. YF Ho, and Dr. Peter KY Chiu, and ‘International relationship including China’ panel of Prof. KS Leung and Dr. SH Yeung.

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Exit exam 2002

The 2002 exit examination was attended by 26 candidates including 4 from Singapore.

19 candidates passed including 3 from Singapore. Successful candidate from Hong Kong will be awarded fellow from both Colleges (HKCOS and RCSE), and candidates from Singapore awarded fellow from RCSE. Congratulations to the new fellows, who will be nominated to the HKAM and will be formally admitted in our next AGM.

Passed candidates 2002

Kwok Ngai-chueng Li Hak-suen Lo Wing-nin, Raphael Tang Ning Wong Chee-leong Wong Hin-keung Wong Kwok-chuen Wong Wing-shun, Albert Yam Cheong-fat Chak Hing-chung, Eric Chan Kwok-bill Choi Shing-hing Chow Kai-pun Chow Yuen-hon, Francis Hui Wai-kwong Kwok Kin-on The gold medallist is Dr. Wong Kwok-chuen.

The gold medallist for 2001 is Dr. Tio Man-kwun, Peter.

Examiner’s Meeting

Exit exam 2003

This year the exit examination will be held concurrently in Hong Kong and Singapore end of November to early December 2003. The clinical examination will be held in TMH.

The exit examination 2003, important dates: 30th June 30th August September Deadline for registration Inform candidates of acceptance to exam Preparatory course Application form is downloadable from the College website.

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Amendment of constitution

The amendment of constitution is passed in the EGM 2002, for details please refer to the College homepage.

CME cycle

In view of all CME cycles for existing fellows of all Colleges of HKAM would start afresh from January 1, 2005, CME cycles starting within 3 years before that date would have to be counted on a pro-rata basis.

Please plan your CME activities accordingly. Your CME committee will also inform fellows by the end of each annual return.

AGM, EGM 2002

Specialty development

Rehabilitation subspecialty has been endorsed by HKAM both in our College and Medicine.

In the previous retreats, members have discussed the pros and cons of specialization. At present, there are 2 areas which might warrant further discussion: spine and hand/microsurgery.

Please write to your council for your thoughts: other areas for specialization, rationale for specialization in spine/hand, in terms of training, service provision and research, international image of the discipline of orthopaedics, etc. How do we regard the overlap between us and neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons in the above 2 specialties?

International/China link

As a relative young college, we have a relatively efficient training program and structured examination which is well recognized. It might be prudent that we can influence mainland colleagues in their eagerness to go global. Your president Prof. K.S. Leung and Dr. S.H.

Yeung, our ex-president, will head the committee on these matters.

15th year anniversary

Your College is 15 years old since its foundation under Prof. Sir Harry Fang in 1988. The Council is considering publishing a booklet to commemorate this. It will surely need your support, especially from our senior members. Please share with us your precious photos.

We would like to collect records, brochures, souvenirs and other memorabilia. Your name will be recorded and these will be returned to you immediately after use. Please contact Miss Irene Yu for details.

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Trainees’ column

Basic Surgical Trainee (BST) Higher Orthopaedic Trainee (HOT) After extensive discussions and consultations, it was decided that the College will limit the number of yearly HOT intake to 5 in 2005. It will be made known to all basic trainees admitted into the training program of ICBSC (intercollegiate board of surgical colleges) in 2003 that there will be selection process, including interview in 2005 after they have passed the MRCS examination before they can be admitted into the HOT program of our College.

From July 2003 onwards, the newly employed BSTs will NOT need to register with the HKCOS. They will be under the ICBSC, and HA will consider them as a general pool of trainees.

For these new Trainees (BST 2003), we will revise the Training points to make them more in line with what the general surgery or ENT will do, in particular with reference to the future system of CME points.

For current BSTs (BST 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002). They need to submit HKCOS Training Points when they are doing Orthopaedics. In other words, a so called "surgical" trainee doing Ortho as elective, will need to submit Training Points to HKCOS. Otherwise we may not certify his assessment form for the 6 months in orthopaedics. The number of training points will be 30 points for 6 months.

For orthopaedic trainees who are now doing electives in other departments, they DO NOT need to submit Training points for HKCOS for that period. (They are actually considered by ICBSC as under those other departments).

Photos of 2002 exit exam, College dinner, dinner lecture

The dinner was attended by presidents from other college. Dr. K.T. Fu gave a lecture on “John Hunter and Orthopaedics” which is of interest not only to those who are interested in medical history but also to those who have interest in music. Dr. Fu has kindly given permission to post up his lecture in PowerPoint format in our college homepage.

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http://www.hkcos.org.hk/newsletter/

) A gold medal was presented to Prof. Harry Fang by President Dr. S.H. Yeung in appreciation for his generous donation of the gold medal and in recognition of his contribution to our profession.

Please take a look at the collection of pictures at the college dinner, and capture the memorable moments. ( http://www.hkcos.org.hk/newsletter/ )

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Acknowledgement

The following fellows from our College has been nominated to be examiner in the coming MRCS examination: Prof. Chan Kai-ming Dr. Lau Pui-yau Dr. Lee Wai-keung Prof. Leung Ping-chung Dr. Mak Kan-hing Dr. Paul Tse Prof. John C. Y. Leong was elected President of SICOT 2002-2005. Fellows who are members of SICOT would know that it has been active in promoting orthopaedic education in the 3rd world. In relation to Hong Kong, the SICOT Triennial Congress 2008 will be hosted by this city. Let us wish a great success, not only for the Hong Kong SICOT, Beijing Olympics, but also for our economy! Prof. Leong would encourage everybody to join SCIOT.

Transfer of the SICOT medal from the outgoing president, Prof. Rainer Kotz, to Prof. John Leong John Leong as incoming president of SICOT 2002-2005, at san Diego 30th Aug. 2002

Announcement for Research Grant

HKCOS Research Grant

The 2003 grant will be open for application from April 1, 2003.

The deadline for application is June 30, 2003.

Please download the application form from the College homepage. The maximum grant is HK$25,000. for a period of one year.

HHSRF Health, Welfare and Food Bureau HSRF HHSRF, funding for research. ( also amounts to HK$80,000.

http://www.hsrf-hcpf.org

) Interested members can obtain the application from the above web-site. The mini-grant

Announcement for Bone and Joint Decade (BJD) 2000-2010

Our College is now the official participating organization for this WHO activity.

For interested members, please refer to http://www.boneandjointdecade.org

for detailed accounts of the background, activities and participating countries and organizations.

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