UEMS ORTHOPAEDICS MEETING

BRUSSELS BELGIUM, April 8-9, 2011

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY IN GREECE

HAOST DELEGATES TO UEMSVASSILIOS C. BITOUNIS, MDARISTIDES B. ZOUBOS, MD

HELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC

SURGERY AND TRAUMATOLOGY Athens Academy Award 2004

HAOST was founded in 1947

HAOST has an Executive Council of 9 members

Holds its Annual Meeting at mid-October

Counts 910 active members and 830 associate members, mainly residents, not all in good standing

Not all the orthopaedic surgeons and residents are obliged to be members of the Association

HELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC

SURGERY AND TRAUMATOLOGY Athens Academy Award 2004

HAOST has 10 individual sections:

Hellenic College of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Adult Reconstruction ( Hip and Knee ) Paediatric Orthopaedics Musculoskeletal Infections Musculoskeletal Oncology

HELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND TRAUMATOLOGY

Athens Academy Award 2004

HAOST sections (continue):

Spine Shoulder and Elbow Foot and Ankle Research IM Nailing

In Greece there are also independent Hand Surgery and Sports Medicine Societies

GREECE

Size: 132.000 Sq. Kms

Population: 11.3 Millions

Capital: Athens (4.5 Millions)

Currency: Euro since 2001

Greece divided in 13 Peripheries

Greece divided in 11 Health

Authority Districts

The largest is Attica and

the second one is Central Macedonia

Greece has 7 Medical Schools:

1. Athens (Attica), 2. Thessaloniki (Central Macedonia),3. Ioannina (Epirus),4. Larissa (Thessaly), 5. Patras (Peloponnisos), 6. Alexandroupolis (Thrace), 7. Heraklion (Crete)

Every year about 900 Medical Students

admitted to the Schools

There are 80 Public Hospitals

There are 11 University Orthopaedic Dpts.

and 104 Public Orthopaedic Dpts.

There are also Private Hospitals but they

do not have the right

to train Residents

Orthopaedic Surgeons Demographics

HAOST latest Manpower (Feb. 2011)

2007: 1519 Orthopaedic Surgeons

with 1:7330 ratio

2011: 2108 Orthopaedic Surgeons

with 1:5240 ratio

2011: 598 Orthopaedic Residents

HAOST Manpower

1505: Orthopaedics doing private practice

603: Are in Public or University Dpts.

HAOST Manpower

Attica: 1015 OrthopaedicSurgeons 810 In Private Practice 295 Residents

Central Macedonia: 325 Orthopaedic Surgeons 235 In Private Practice

92 Residents

HAOST Manpower

35 out of 80 hospitals provide full training

45 hospitals provide training from

6 months – 3,5 yrs.

Orthopaedic Residency Program in Greece

6 yrs Training Program

1 yr General Surgery

5 yrs Orthopaedics

1 yr Paediatric Orhtopaedic,

3 yrs Reconstructive and Trauma and

2 semesters either of Plastic,Thoracic,

Vascular or Neurosurgery

There are not exams to start the program.

There are not obligatory exams during the

program.

There are final exams to get the specialty

In Greece the Educational and Training system,

as far as is concerned, the Post Graduated Medical

Training Program, is controlled by the Ministry of Health

Recently the Health Authorities started thinking

that the Residency Program has to be organized by

the National Scientific Societies

HAOST is a pioneer Society, as far as is concerned,

Continues Medical Education Orthopaedic Program

since 1984

There is a permanent Committee and now it serves as

an advisor to the Health Authorities

The last two years HAOST published

1. “Guidelines for the Prevention of Deep Venus Thrombosis in Orthopaedic Surgery” 2009 and

2. it is under press “Guidelines for the Use of Bone Grafts in Orthopaedic Surgery”

These two publications distributed to the

Greek Orthopaedic Community and Greek Physicians