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This online Journal Club includes citations and short summaries of key articles relevant to hand and upper extremity surgery. Editors review 14 journals bi-monthly. Comments and suggestions may be directed to the online Journal club Supervising Editor, Mark Cohen, MD at mcohen3@rush.edu

Since its inception the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma was established to further the study and practice of traumatic surgery in its various departments, in the United States and Canada.
Those initial ideals have since expanded to include: furnish leadership and to foster advances in the surgery of trauma;...

Established in 1991, the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) is committed to its mission of providing educational opportunities to its members. For the past several years, annual Fall meetings have addressed an increasingly broad array of scientific topics, such as implant design, results, surgical techniques and complications...

The mission of the Society has always been to improve the standard of spinal care and alleviate the suffering of so many. We try to accomplish this by providing state of the art, clinically oriented continuing education in spinal care to the health care community. Our gratification comes from...

The quality assurance organization that established standards of competency for physicians performing independent medical and disability examinations

The American College of Hyperbaric Medicine is a physician specialty organization founded in 1983. It is exclusively devoted to supporting and improving the science and practice environment for physicians practicing Hyperbaric Medicine.

As the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, ACSM has more than 20,000 International, National, and Regional Chapter members.
Working in a wide range of medical specialties, allied health professions, and scientific disciplines, our members are committed to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports-related injuries and...

Professional society for the state of Arkansas. Has a list of Orthopaedic Surgeons in the state.

This website is for anyone who wishes to know more about arthritis, the charity and how to help find the cure. Arthritis causes long term health problems for more than one in seven adults and many thousands of children. arc is the only UK charity wholly dedicated to curing it.

Objectives
To enhance the development of educational and researches activities in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine & Arthroscopy and to facilitate raising resource for the future works.
Collaborators
# CUHK-WHO Collaborating Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion
# Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology (Hong Kong)
# Hong Kong Association of Sports Medicine and Sports Science
# India...

Asian Federation of Sports Medicine (AFSM) c/o The Chinese University of Hong Kong c/o Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology Room 74029, Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital Shatin, N. T., HONG KONG

The Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA) is an organisation of orthopaedic surgeons mainly from the Asia-Pacific region. It was founded as the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association in 1962 by seven orthopaedic surgeons, meeting in Manila.
Members come from some forty countries from around the world, but mainly from the seventeen Member...

Multidisciplinary trauma society for Australia and New Zealand
Trauma across the spectrum is represented by many clinicians who individually have been members of their particular specialty groups and colleges. The ATS focuses on multidisciplinary trauma management and as such members from many different specialities come together to benefit in the following...

Website of the Bangladesh Orthopaedic Society

The Belgian Trauma Society wants to participate in the stimulation of scientific research concerning the prevention and care of injuries as in the organization of the care for the injured.
OWL Editor's Note: Website last updated 2003