About

This Advanced course, previously run in Dorchester as the West Dorset Hip Update Course, is led by Professor Reinhard Graf, Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Graz, Austria.

• The Advanced Course is open to those who have previously attended a Basic Course in Infant Hip Ultrasound at West Dorset, Cardiff, Dublin or London.

• Doctors Academy awards 12 CPD points for attendance on both days of this course.

Aims & Objectives

• To ensure that participants are competent and confident in the technique of hip sonography.
• To address any pertinent technical or knowledge-related issues that participants are encountering.
• To discuss in greater depth the clinical and ultrasonic management of children with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (previously known as Congenital Dislocation of the Hip) including new developments.

Course Organiser

Ms Claudia Maizen, FRCS(T&O)
Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
Barts and The Royal London Hospital

Suitable for

• Midwives
• Obstetric Nurses
• Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Paediatricians
• Paediatric Surgeons
• Physiotherapists
• Radiographers
• Radiologists
• Sonographers
• Speciality Nurses
• Speciality Registrars and Trainees in any of the above disciplines
• Surgical or Advanced Care Practitioners