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Welcome to our third newsletter. This edition is about our most important news of the trimester that just passed. The objective of our quarterly bulletin is to communicate our main news, events and courses to our community.
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AOSpine Regional Courses - Bogota - Mexico City
From November 3rd to 5th AOSpine Latin America launched its first Regional Courses in Bogota, Colombia. The event that counted with more than 200 participants was an exceptional opportunity for Latin American spine surgeons to meet and exchange ideas with colleagues from other countries.
According to our guests and organizers, the event was a success because it received spine surgeons from 13 countries of our region, international lecturers from 9 countries, including Europe and North-America.
During 3 days, spine surgeons were able to participate into a principle course, a research seminar, and advanced modules in Trauma, Tumors and Degenerative & Deformities.
The innovative format that allowed our participants to attend modules from different pathologies, was very well received by the surgeons that attended the AOSpine Regional Courses. We are very enthusiastic about the feedback of the event.
Our hope is to see as many participants in our next Regional Courses that is going to take place in Mexico City in June 2017.
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AOSpine Online Activities
In 2017, AOSpine Latin America will offer many online activities in order to benefit its members with its Continuing Medical Education program.
This decision was taken thinking about our members. At AOSpine we know the difficulty to attend courses located in different places of our region. Time and dislocation are two elements that might be crucial for our public participate in our events. This is the reason why we are putting so much energy to provide new offers to our members.
For further information about our online offers please contact:
Carla Vinize | [email protected]
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Academic Course on Spine
In October 27th, 2016, AOSpine Latin America launched the Academic Course on Spine. The scientific content that was developed by recognized spine surgeons of the Latin American region is a dynamic, complete and progressive educational program structured in three levels on spine pathologies. At the end of each level, participants will receive an AOSpine certificate while at the end of the program they will receive an AOSpine certificate accredited by the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Participants from Brazil will also be able to request the credits to the “Comissão Nacional de Acreditação-CNA Brasil”.
The program that went under some adaptations in order to provide a better experience to our participants was set on pause from November 2015 till October of the current year.
In particular, the changes are an improved platform, tutoring system, interactive cases and complementary material. In addition, new topics and the possibility to participate into synchronic and asynchronous activities have been added to the program.
At the end of the day, we were surprised that all the vacancies were sold in less than a few hours.
We wish good luck to all participants.
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AOSLA Master Degree Scholarship
AOSpine is very proud to announce the offer of a new scholarship in partnership with the Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS). The scholarship is in line with AOSpine tradition to promote research in the advancement of spine care. In particular, the objective of the scholarship is to fund the studies of a candidate with a degree in orthopedic or neurosurgery, in a Master in Health Sciences at UCS for a 2 years period.
Further details will be communicated soon.
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Go Green Strategy
AOSpine is committed to avoid printing documents wherever possible, and instead provide electronic documents for download.
As a result, all AOSpine members are able to download their membership certificates directly from their online profile as of immediate effect. This easy and flexible option will not only help to reduce paper significantly, but also the carbon footprint as thousands of parcels will no longer need to be shipped to members around the world.
Also, if you wish to continue to receive the printed copy of the Global Spine Journal, we kindly ask you to opt-in for the printed version in your AOSpine Membership profile before December 31, 2016.
All AOSpine members will continue to receive Global Spine Journal in electronic form via a notification e-mail as usual, and the privilege remains of having the publication fee of USD 1.500,00 waived if they are published in Global Spine Journal.
All AOSpine members will be able to change their preferred choice of delivery of Global Spine Journal in their profiles at any time.
We are delighted to be able to contribute to a more environmentally friendly process and thank you for your continuous support!
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