Pediatrics
Pediatrics education taskforce
The Pediatrics education taskforce is a group of experts who build and continuously improve our educational program. It consists of three international program editors (IPEs).
Matej Kastelec (SI)
Term: 2018—2023
Mamoun Kremli (SA)
Term: 2018—2021
Daniel Green (US)
Term: 2020–2022
See a full list of all regional program contributors and past international program editors.
Curriculum events
The Pediatrics curriculum defines the following standardized events:
- AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Musculoskeletal Injuries (2-2.5 days)
- AO Trauma Seminar—Special Pediatric Trauma Conditions
- AO Trauma Seminar— Pediatric Orthopedic Conditions
Target audiences
- Pediatrics specialists early in their career
- Generalists (orthopedics) spending about 20 percent of their time on trauma (including community surgeons)
- Pediatrics experts
- Trauma surgeons
Resources
Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nailing (ESIN) in Children
AO Surgery Reference
Check out the pediatrics section of our online repository.
Courses and webinars
Explore our database and search for events on pediatrics.
Members only
AO Videos
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Faculty only
Faculty center
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Competency-based education
Learn more about our approach to education.
Competencies
The education taskforce has identified the following competencies for this area of practice:
- Recognize that the outcome of similar injury patterns varies with a child’s age and adapt treatment accordingly
- Manage relationships with patient and parents/relatives
- Establish the natural history and decide on a treatment strategy
- Assess the patient based on developmental status and make decisions based on available team/infrastructure
- Perform the chosen treatment procedure
- Perform and document short- and long-term follow-up; apply findings to decision making
- Diagnose and treat septic arthritis in a timely manner
- Recognize and address signs and patterns of nonaccidental injury
- Diagnose and treat slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Manage acquired and congenital deformity
- Manage pathological bone
- Recognize and stabilize the pediatric polytrauma patient
Contacts
To address feedback or questions to this education taskforce, email the Curriculum Development Manager Jane Thorley Wiedler or templates@aotrauma.org.
AO Trauma voices
“Our learners are constantly challenging us to be innovative and to develop more meaningful ways to share our expertise with them. This new AO Trauma pediatrics curriculum applies new learning approaches to impart the knowledge and skills they need to perform their best.”
Jonathan Dwyer, past member of the pediatrics education taskforce