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FELLOWSHIP REPORTS

Report on the United Kingdom Trip of the ISAKOS Furthermore, I attended the operative lists by Mr. Raj on

Upper Extremity Traveling Fellowship 2013
a regular basis. He did a lot of interesting surgeries such
as arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction,

revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, arthroscopic
partial meniscectomy and meniscal repair, arthroscopic

lateral release, arthroscopic medial patellofemoral ligament
reconstruction, arthroscopic microfracture of the knee, total
knee arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty.

Additionally, I had been exposed to lower limb trauma cases

such as bipolar hemiarthroplasty hip, surgical fixation of
fracture femur, patella and tibia and open reduction and

internal fixation of ankle fractures.

I had attended the daily trauma round regularly and this gave
me a good opportunity to have a scientific friendly discussion

with my colleagues on the interesting trauma presented
cases. Similarly, I had attended the weekly Monday teaching

meetings presenting different orthopedic scientific subjects.

Thankfully, Mr. Raj gave me a good chance to do research
work with him on different interesting scientific topics and I am

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still working on these research studies.

Fellowship program
My visit started first by flying to London then I took the train

to Boston. I enjoyed the journey by train as I was able to
see the green fields. Firstly, I met Mrs. Lynn Russel, the

human resources administrator at the hospital. I gave her the
requested documents and she took me to orientation tour in

the hospital. Later I met Mr. Raj and Mr. Motkur in the clinic.
They gave me more details about the hospital clinics and

operative slots in the hospital. I had a quite busy schedule in
the hospital, however I enjoyed it much.

My schedule included attending the clinic on a regular basis.

I was attending shoulder, sports knee and fracture clinics.
The department was a major referral center for all sports,
arthroplasty and trauma cases in the Lincolnshire area.

Therefore the clinics were busy and this gave me a chance to
come across different varieties of interesting cases.

I attended the operative theatre lists of upper limb cases with 04

Mr. Motkur. I saw and learned different surgical procedure such
as arthroscopic Bankart repair, arthroscopic rotator cuff repair,

arthroscopic slap lesion repair, mini open and open rotator cuff
repair, arthroscopic subacromial decompression, arthroscopic

capsular release for adhesive capsulitis, Mumford Procedure
(Open or Arthroscopic), arthroscopic and open acromioplasty,

Arthroscopic biceps tenodesis, total shoulder arthroplasty,
reverse shoulder prosthesis shoulder hemiarthroplasty and
elbow arthroscopy. I saw trauma fracture cases of upper limb,

such open reduction and internal fixation of fracture clavicle,
surgical fixation of fracture proximal humerus, and humeral

shaft fractures. Open reduction and internal fixation of distal
humerus fractures, olecranon and surgical fixation of distal

radius fractures. Additionally, I had a good chance to see
some shoulder surgeries with Mr. Deshmukh.

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