Undergraduate Orthopaedics
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List of Topics
Topics pending publication are marked with an asterik *
Compartment Syndrome*
Distal Radius Fractures*
Osteoporosis*
Mallet Finger*
Club Foot*
Avascular Necrosis*
Common Shoulder Problem*
Perthes Disease*
Slipped Capital Epiphysis*
DVT and Pulmonary Embolus*
Pulled elbow*
Nerve entrapment Carpal tunnel and Cubital tunnel syndromes*
Preamble:
This syllabus is provided to you by Casey Chan MD as optional supplemental reading and is not meant to replace your normal lectures or lectures notes which will remain your primary source of information.
There will be overlap with your lectures and lecture notes. The information provided is meant to be a standard set of information for all undergraduate students learning basic orthopedics.
It is meant to take you to a level where you will be knowledgeable enough to treat basic orthopedic condition as a general practitioner. You will be competent to know when to refer and to recognise emergency conditions requiring urgent referrals. It will also provide you with basic knowledge to discuss with and advise your patient orthopedic care recommended by the specialists.
These notes are organised systematically by basic principles, presentation, cause, diagnosis and recommended treatments that a general practitioner should be able to handle.
The notes are richly illustrated with images so that the subject matter can be easily remembered and recall for clinical application.
The topics provided here follow the guideline of must know, must see and good to know.
Here is a List of Topics with links to the relevant chapters.
The aims of these supplemental readings are:
1. Provide a set of uniform basic knowledge base on general orthopedics principles that a general practitioner should know and be able to provide basic orthopedic care.
2. Enable the general practitioner to provide first line orthopedic care and refer to specialist when appropriate and to understand consultation note and discuss intelligently with his patient the specialist's recommendation. Notes will provide guidelines when urgent referral is needed for immediate treatment.
3. Each topic is flagged as must know, must see, good to know.
4. How a directed physical examinations should be conducted based on presentation, history and provisional diagnosis.
The aims of these supplemental readings are:
1. Provide a set of uniform basic knowledge base on general orthopedics principles that a general practitioner should know and be able to provide basic orthopedic care.
2. Enable the general practitioner to provide first line orthopedic care and refer to specialist when appropriate and to understand consultation note and discuss intelligently with his patient the specialist's recommendation. Notes will provide guidelines when urgent referral is needed for immediate treatment.
3. Each topic is flagged as must know, must see, good to know.
4. How a directed physical examinations should be conducted based on presentation, history and provisional diagnosis.
2. My teaching approach:
2. My teaching approach:
Understand the basic principle of the condition
How to elilicit the relevent symptoms & history followed by a directed physical examination
Formulate a theory of the murder Provisional diagnosis
How to arrest the suspect Formulate treatment plan
Suspect arrested Patient cured
Topics will be published* after your lectures:
Topics will be published* after your lectures:
- Compartment Syndrome*
- Distal Radius Fractures*
- Osteoporosis*
- Developmental Hip Dysplasia
- Open Fractures
- Hip Fractures
- Hip Dislocations
- Common Shoulder Problem
- Frozen shoulder, rotator cuff tear and impingement syndrome
- Humeral neck and humeral shaft fracture
- Shoulder dislocation, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment
- Sternoclavicular arthritisAC joint separation
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis: Common hip, knee, CMC thumb
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Seronegative arthritis
- Total Joint Replacements cemented vs uncemented. Expected success rate, longevity, activities and limitations, complications
- Spine conditions, ddd, disc herniation, spinal stenosis, scoliosis
- Others ........
A Problem Based Approach
A Problem Based Approach
- Basic Principle - everything else follows
- Clinical Presentation - the problem
- Medical history, cause (s) and risk factors if any
- Physical findings and directed examination.
- Diagnosis
Arm the students with the necessary orthopedic knowledge to enable him to provide first line basic orthopedic care and recognise when to refer patients at appropriate time to specialist. Know what are the orthopedic emergencies that require urgent referral for immediate intervention. The government has a mandate for general practitioner to be medical gatekeepers especially in polyclinics. This philosophy is reflected in my teaching approach.
Arm the students with the necessary orthopedic knowledge to enable him to provide first line basic orthopedic care and recognise when to refer patients at appropriate time to specialist. Know what are the orthopedic emergencies that require urgent referral for immediate intervention. The government has a mandate for general practitioner to be medical gatekeepers especially in polyclinics. This philosophy is reflected in my teaching approach.