The Institute of Health Management and Research, Bangalore (IIHMR) in order to create a ‘platform for Competency Enhancements’ among various healthcare providers, organised its first annual international workshop on, ‘Up-skilling of Orthopaedicians for Enhancement of Competencies’. The 4-day event from January 25-28, 2018 held at its campus was a hands on-workshop on the domain of up-skill training and experiential learning in the field of orthopaedics.
According to the organisers, the event was the first of its kind in India; where over a 100 medical professionals from six countries participated. The 8 sessions saw 65 senior teaching faculty from 17 states of India share knowledge.
Orthopaedic surgical skill is traditionally acquired during training in an apprenticeship model that has been largely unchanged for nearly 100 years. Efforts must be made to learn from the experiences of developed nations and a very few open fora are organized in the developing countries for the dissemination of research findings of the developed nations in relation to skill development of clinicians, stated the organisers.
According to Dr Usha Manjunath, Director, IIHMR- Bangalore, though we are not directly associated with the field of orthopaedics, being a premier healthcare institute, we wanted to provide a platform for various medical stakeholders. Orthopaedics is one of the key verticals in Indian healthcare due to growing number of fatal injuries that occur in accidents. So, we opted to mobilise our resources to contribute to upskill the orthopaedics to deliver quality service.
Commenting on the need for the workshop Dr Anil Sood, organizing chairman of the conference said, that the prime idea behind the conference is to build skills among our medical fraternity. With the sprawling number of tools and techniques in the orthopaedic field; this forum aims to aid practitioners to make the right choice of evidence based model for diagnosis. In fact, each session conducted here has key points to offer, which can be incorporated in the medical practice.
“It’s great to see a good number of orthopaedicians gathered together to seek knowledge. Even though medical industry has been inculcating varied technologies to serve better, it’s not complete without application of right skills to ace it. This effort by IIHMR is a good imitative taken in that line,” said Takashi Maki, Director of Sakra World Hospital Bangalore.
“The theme of the workshop to upskill the orthopaedicians is very relevant to current day. When I entered medical field as general orthopaedician, all knowledge that I had was from an academic training and had no access to additional sources like workshops. Today the medical industry has advanced so much that, it is imperative for orthopaedicians to focus on sub-speciality and be upskilled. This conference, which is uniquely organised by self-financing, is an admirable act trying to fill the gap of upskilling in the industry”, said Dr K. S. Manjunath, Director, Bowring Institute of Medical Science.
Among others notable experts were Dr John Ebnezar Ex-Professor of Orthopaedics, Dr H P C Khincha Director of Arthroplasty, Sagar Hospitals, Dr Thomas Chandy, Director of Arthroplasty, Hosmat Hospitals, and Dr Bikamchand, CEO Santhosh Group of Hospitals, Bangalore addressed the need to upskill for orthopaedic surgeons to deliver quality service.