Abstracts Posters SICOT-SOF meeting Gothenburg 2010 _2_

Poster
Topic: General Orthopaedics
Abstract number: 26563
CASE REPORTS: A NEW TUTORIAL CONCEPT
Mathias GLEHR, Radl ROMAN, Werner MAURER-ERTL, Wibmer CHRISTINE,
Leithner ANDREAS
Universityclinic for Orthpaedic Surgery, Graz (AUSTRIA)
Introduction: The University Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery Graz is one of the
Austrian centres for treatment of benign and malign musculoskeletal tumours.
Because of the low number of most musculoskeletal tumours sometimes the only
occurrence in literature are case reports. Although the scientific value of case reports
in the scientific community is far below clinical trails they represent an important
scientific contribution especially in rare pathologies. Students should be motivated
early to scientific work. Case reports are the ideal introduction to this. Materials and
Methods: Within 12 one hour sessions students are instructed to basics of scientific
working. Every participant could choose a case report or a simple retrospective study
and had to present the chosen topic in a seven minute presentation for colleagues.
Additional aim was to produce a poster or presentation for a national or international
congress and work out a manuscript for sending it to a journal. The students were
supervised in all these actions of the lecturing tutors. Results: The tutorial was hold
four times with very good output. Seven case reports of the students were published
till now. 25 presentations and 36 posters were accepted (61 abstracts). Discussion:
Students were very satisfied with the concept of this tutorial. They learned basics of
scientific working and had possibility to present their work. Retrospective evaluation
showed, that students and lecturing tutors had many benefits of this new method.
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