Prof Harold Ellis qualified in 1948 during the inception of the NHS. Till this day he has dedicated his life to it, to surgery and to educating & inspiring future generations. BOTA would like to thank him for his years of hard work, dedication & for being a role model to so many!
Ms Samantha Tross (
@samanthatross
) is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon practicing in London. She also became the first black female orthopaedic surgeon in the UK in 2005. Thank you for everything you have done for the orthopaedic community!
#BOTABHM
Massive congratulations to Mr Alistair Mayne
@MayneAlistair
who is a Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar in Northern Ireland for winning the Walter Mercer Medal, awarded annually to the candidate who achieves the highest mark in the FRCS(orth) exam at the first attempt.
Well done!!
The Presidential handover, welcome to your new post
@karenkchui
- our new BOTA president 2023-24! 🎊
Thankyou for your hard work this year
@OrthoSingh
, you’ve been a fantastic president & we look forward to having you on committee as our past president! 💪
“Trainees are the solution to the waiting list backlog not the obstruction. They are the consultants of the future and the backlog is not going anywhere anytime soon, therefore we must find ways to train them”
@laura_deriu
#BOAAC21
#botaboacongress
#orthotwitter
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, Bota are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our third nominee is Ms Samantha Tross!
@samanthatross
@BOTA_WinS
@BOTA_CD
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, BOTA are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our fifth nominee is Ms Joanna Maggs!
@joanna_maggs
@BOTA_WinS
@BOTA_CD
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, BOTA are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our eighth nominee is Miss Sue Deakin!
@BOTA_WinS
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
The Pulvertaft is world renowned and have kindly been hosting amazing free webinars for us all to attend. The next is this Mon at 8:30pm by Mr Sammut on the Biomechanics of the intrinsics and is NOT to be missed!
@The_Pulvertaft
@BritOrthopaedic
@BSSHand
This week we came together for our BOTA Committee Meeting.📑
A productive day with lots of great ideas and plans for the 2023 BOTA congress. 🤝
A very special visitor came along too..introducing the new BOTA Baby Rep!
#boba
#bota
#orthotwitter
We are here!
@bota_uk
committee well represented
@ASiTofficial
Congress! Come say hello in Room 11A (1st Floor). 👋
We have a few events this morning at 11am!
@OrthoSingh
kicking off the journal club in Rm 4.
@Ryanmoffat5
leading the charge in Battle of specialities in Rm 11!
Congratulations to all those that got an ST3 number today!
For those that missed out, keep your heads up and don’t be too hard on yourselves. Take a well earned break and please reach out if you need to chat about your options and preparing for next year.
We previously posted about the concerning training situation in Northern Ireland. Our SAC rep,
@Songfinlay
has been working hard to highlight this important issue which has now made the national news.
BBC article:
BBC video:
Best of Luck to everyone sitting FRCS Part 1 & 2 over this week and during this month! We are very proud of how you have all dealt with the adversities COVID brought and have no doubt that you’ll smash the exam! Just think not long till you get your evenings and lives back!
#FRCS
Congratulations to those who have passed the FRCS(Orth).
The long days and nights, highs and lows, the times of despair have culminated in your magnificent achievement.
Enjoy your moment!
@BritOrthopaedic
#orthotwitter
Congratulations to those of you on passing MRCS Part A! However, we are aware and sympathise that some of you are feeling disappointed with your results and have concerns regarding the process. We assure you that we are working with ICBSE to raise and address these.
#MRCSPartA
We are proud to announce the dates of the BOTA Annual Congress 2023. This year's theme will be Careers & Development, and registration will be open on the 5th of June. We look forward to welcoming you!
#BOTAAC23
We are pleased to announce the new
@bota_uk
committee for 2021/22.
Thank you to everyone that participated and voted, as well as the previous committee.
We will endeavour to live up to the high standards set before us.
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, Bota are pleased to commence our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our first nominee is Professor Margaret McQueen!
@BOTA_WinS
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
Regional Representatives Forum
@RCSnews
Thankyou to all for attending and your engagement throughout the day! Congrats to our very own
@karenkchui
for a successful event! 👏🏽
#bota
#orthotwitter
Few topics in Hand surgery are as controversial and misunderstood as Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Thankfully tomorrow we have Mr Henk Giele to help shed some light and share his experience on this subject! Register now:
@The_Pulvertaft
@BSSHand
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, Bota are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our fourth nominee is Miss Ilana Langdon!
@ilanainbath
@BOTA_WinS
@BOTA_CD
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
Congratulations to all successful ST3 candidates on your training numbers, welcome! 👏🏽
To those who were not successful this time, don’t be disheartened! Application cycles are stressful, take time away to relax and regroup. We wish everyone all the best for the future! 🛠
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, Bota are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our second nominee is Miss Kate Spacey!
@BOTA_WinS
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
BOTA and
@BritOrthopaedic
are excited to announce our new regional 'Culture & Diversity (C&D) Champions'!
The new C&D Champions are representatives of BOA and BOTA and will work with us to encourage, to build a more diverse and inclusive environment for our specialty.
We are deeply saddened to hear this news. Our thoughts and prayers are with Dame Marx’s family at this difficult time. She was truly a trailblazer and an inspiration to so many.
With great sadness, we share the news that former RCS England President, Dame Clare Marx CBE, DL, MBBS, PRCS, has passed away. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Dame Clare:
Getting ready for the first day!
Packed schedule today inc the robotic session - see the Rosa
@zimmerbiomet
and Mako
@StrykerOI
robots! To the highly anticipated
@RCSEd
session this morning!
For those of you with children we have a baby care room available as well!
#botaac2022
The
@BritOrthopaedic
& BOTA Culture and Diversity Champions programme has launched!!
A senior and junior champion for each deanery will be chosen. We welcome your application whatever your background!
further info:
@BOTA_CD
@BOTA_WinS
@RCSnews
Hope you all enjoyed our Sunday Supper with Wrightington and we look forward to seeing you next week! For those of you that sadly missed it - you can watch it on . Password is: 6s++o19# . Thanks
@uplimb
@mike_hayton
@CY_Hand
@drmricksy
- it was fantastic!
For all future Orthopods out there (Students/SHOs) BOTA’s Bare Bones is bringing you the key info you need on all our Sunday Supper topics. This month: Carpal Tunnel, Scaphoid Fractures & Carpal Instability - helping you gain a good foundation! Register:
BASK would love to hear from female trainees who are interested in knee surgery and see how they may better help you in reaching your goals! Those interested are asked to please get in touch with BASK Education secretary James Murray on james.murray
@doctors
.org.uk!
@baskonline
We at BOTA would like to congratulate our past president Vitty Bucknall on securing her dream job at
@alderheyortho
as a Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant! We are all extremely proud and know you will be a great asset to their department!
@vbucknall1
Wonderful to see our VP
@karenkchui
delivering an excellent talk about ‘Equity, diversity and inclusion in surgery’ at the
@RCSnews
Bulletin’s 40th Anniversary!
Read her article (one of the most cited Bulletin pieces ever!) here-
Happy International Women’s Day! We at BOTA are keen to promote inclusivity and diversity within training and are proud that our committee represents those very values including having 5 female trainee representatives! Orthopaedic stereotypes are changing and we are all for it!
Edinburgh Orthopaedics Virtual Trauma Case Series - - An online educational series discussing exceptional trauma cases and their management. The next session will take place Thursday 18th...
Any
#medstudents
and
#juniordoctors
attending
#ASiT2021
today and interested in finding out about orthopaedics and how to get started during medical school, don’t forget to join our T&O Specialty Village Breakout Session @ 13:45 today!
@ASiTofficial
BOTA Statement to
@ASiTofficial
Physician Associate survey report.
We support the report findings & recommendations. BOTA calls for ongoing collaborative approach of all stakeholders & involvement of trainee representatives in shaping the role of the PA.
Congratulations to our 3 research oral presentation winners - Chris Madden-McKee, Mahmoud Awadallah and Catherine James! Fantastic presentations and well deserved!
#BOTA2021
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, BOTA are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our sixth nominee is Miss Sheweidin Aziz!
@Sheweidin
@Leic_hospital
@BOTA_WinS
@BritOrthopaedic
@RCSnews
This new and exciting series is starting on May 31st with a bang! 3 specialist led short, informative and exam focused sessions on distal radius fractures, brachial plexus injuries and base of thumb OA are planned! You do NOT want to miss out! Register on
🎉 BOTA CONGRESS 2023 is officially LAUNCHED! 🎉
👉 Book via MedAll and take advantage of the early-bird tickets
👉 Submit your abstracts
👉 Choose from a range of pre-congress courses
Our biggest event of the year... you don't want to miss it! 🚨
Another amazing
@The_Pulvertaft
webinar in association with
@BSSHand
and Az Monica is just around the corner and this time on the fairly novel 3D printing in hand surgery by Mr Frederik Verstreken! You don’t want to miss out:
We had our first committee meeting yesterday at the
@RCSnews
and it went brilliantly!
Some of the things we discussed included - EST, CCT requirements, FRCS exams, ISCP and ARCP, Women in surgery, Fellowships, ST3interviews, and of course the upcoming 2024 BOTA Congress!
On behalf of all our members, BOTA would like to thank Dame Clare Marx for being an inspirational and aspirational leader, a keen supporter of trainees and a role model to us all. We wish her all the best following her recent diagnosis.
⚠️Calling all junior trainees ⚠️
Did you know the 2023 Junior Essay Prize is open? Submit now, the title this year is:
💡The demise of the ‘firm’ - explore the evolution of surgical and orthopaedic training in the UK. Does the current structure need a shake up?
BOTA committee meeting today! Lots of important discussions to help our members as well as to get ready for a interesting week at
@BritOrthopaedic
conference in Birmingham this week!
Another amazing session organised by
@The_Pulvertaft
,
@BSSHand
and the Uni of Barcelona this Monday! Prof Manuel Llusa will be covering surgical anatomy of the brachial plexus - something you need to know for clinical practice and the exam! Register now:
Best of Luck to those of you sitting the first ever virtual MRCS Part A today 👏🏽 we have no doubt you will smash it and come one step closer to becoming a surgeon/ achieving your goals 🙌🏽
#FutureofOrthopaedics
#COVIDwontholdusback
The next fantastic webinar by
@The_Pulvertaft
and
@BSSHand
is coming up this Monday. Mr Peter Burge will share his expertise and take us through some tips, tricks and pitfalls in hand surgery so you do not want to miss out! Register now:
Another amazing webinar organised by
@The_Pulvertaft
and
@BSSHand
with the renowned Prof Tim Davis going through the dilemmas we face with cubital tunnel syndrome! You don’t want to miss out so register now:
ADHD, Life Challenges, Dyslexia and Leadership! More discussions and networking over coffee now! ☕️
@ByTheWayHB
👏🏽
@DgwHolmes
👏🏽
None of this would be possible without sponsor support, thankyou
@DePuySynthes
💪🏼🎉
Another great webinar by
@The_Pulvertaft
and
@BSSHand
on the Vascular Anatomy of the Hand by Dr James Higgins from The Curtis National Hand Center is taking place in less than 24 hours! You do not want to miss this, register now:
Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing women out there! Thank you for supporting us in our life & career goals! Also to all those inspiring women in Orthopaedics who act as role models, never accepting NO, breaking stereotypes and barriers - we celebrate you today and everyday!
We’d like to thank you all for attending
#BOTA2021
Congress!
@cmb_lewis
has done a fantastic job, along with the committee and all speakers who kindly gave up their valuable time! Most importantly thanks to you all for attending and making it a success! Signing out!
#BOTA2021
Get your study leave in and clear your diaries! The dates and location of this years BOTA congress have been confirmed. It will take place between 21st - 25th November 2022 in Liverpool.
Keep the lookout for further information closer to the main event!
The next amazing webinar by
@The_Pulvertaft
and
@BSSHand
is soon approaching and is by the fantastic Mr Carlos Heras-Palou on fractures of the carpal bones. Register now: