So my name's Tom Gill from Boston. Chris Kading, my partner here. I want to welcome you to Chicago. If none of you have been to a review course before, or if you have, this course is really kind of different, and I think unique in many, many ways. This is really a this is what you need to know type of course. So if you're looking for literature review of my research in the field of AC joint dislocations, you're not going to get it here, fortunately. But this is a lot of information. And if you just kind of take, you've all learned this stuff before, but take kind of inventory of what you remember today, and we should talk at the end of the day on Sunday. It's really remarkable. It all come rushing back. But it's not like you go to meetings and you say, oh, that's an interesting talk, or I can go get some coffee during this talk, or I'm going to go walk Michigan Avenue during this talk. Every one of these talks has been worked and refined, and we've used all the input over the years from the course evaluations to refine each of the talks. And I know for me, one of the highlights is always the medical talks. Because as orthopedic surgeons, we work with ACLs and cuffs. Not that you don't want to come to Chris and my ACL and knee talks, please. But that being said, it's the medical stuff that we don't necessarily think about every single day that I think is really one of the highlights of this course. In addition, we've asked the directors and the speakers to really highlight the information that has come up over and over again on exams. A lot of the speakers have actually highlighted in the talk, boldface, remember this, remember this. In order to keep the speakers on time, what we've asked them also to do is put a bunch of test questions in your handouts for the lectures. And they may not necessarily go over all of the test questions during the talk, depending on how they're doing. That being said, all the answers are in your handouts. And you can go over them a lot of times at your convenience as well. A couple of announcements to get started. First of all, everything you're going to hear in these talks is going to be available on the My OSSM tab in your My OSSM account. So you can claim your CME by going to the AOSSM site, going to My Account when you're done, and log in and claim the days that you're here. After each day after the meeting, you're going to get an email, an electronic evaluation request. And it takes five minutes to fill out. But we really do ask that you do that. I know every course you go to says that. But again, unlike a lot of the other courses, we take it very, very seriously. And in real time, literally the week after this course ends, a lot of the talks get refined. So please fill those out. Breakfast is going to be available each morning. Lunch is provided today and tomorrow as well, downstairs in the Rogue room. And again, to access the lectures themselves, if you go to www.sportsmed.org, go to the My OSSM, go to the Meetings tab, and then you click on the Resources link next to the 2017 review course. The only change in the order of talks, just to make note of, is the spine talk. We had a lot of shoulder today. The spine talk and the spine imaging are going to be the last session today. And then I'm going to be doing the rotator cuff talk and the rotator cuff imaging on Sunday, where the spine was. So spine talk is this afternoon, and then the rotator cuff in the morning. I'm going to turn it over to Chris Cady now to make some comments and to get the course going. But again, enjoy it. It's a lot. I know it's a long day to sit, but trust me, it's worth it. And I think it's actually, you'll be excited at the end when you see how much has come rushing back. So welcome to Chicago. Thanks, Tom. And I want to echo some of Tom's comments real quickly, in that this is kind of a unique course, because if you're looking for things that are new, things that are controversial, what's the latest and innovative, that's not the goal of this course. You guys are here for a purpose. I suspect the vast majority are here to prepare yourself for the sports subspecialty certification exam. So this course, the content, the speakers, the focus is all on educating and rounding out your knowledge on what's testable information for the exam. Now, I've been involved in this course for a couple years, and I think it's a very good course. In order to keep it good and to hopefully make it better, your feedback, as Tom mentioned, is important. So please give us feedback on how we can make this an even better course. So with that, we'll start off the course. And to kick it off, I want to introduce Corey Edgar from the University of Connecticut, who's going to give us an overview of leg and ankle. Good morning, everybody. So my name's Tom Gill from Boston. Chris Kading, my partner here. I want to welcome you to Chicago. If none of you have been to a review course before, or if you have, this course is really kind of different and, I think, unique in many, many ways. This is really a this-is-what-you-need-to-know type of course. So if you're looking for literature review of my research in the field of AC joint dislocations, you're not going to get it here, fortunately. But this is a lot of information. And if you just kind of take, you've all learned this stuff before, but take kind of inventory of what you remember today, and we should talk at the end of the day on Sunday, and it's really remarkable. It'll all come rushing back. But it's not like you go to meetings and you say, oh, that's an interesting talk, or I can go get some coffee during this talk, or I'm going to go walk Michigan Avenue during this talk. Every one of these talks has been worked and refined, and we've used all the input over the years from the course evaluations to refine each of the talks. And I know for me, one of the highlights is always the medical talks. Because as orthopedic surgeons, we work with ACLs and cuffs. Not that you don't want to come to Chris and my ACL and knee talks place, but that being said, it's the medical stuff that we don't necessarily think about every single day that I think is really one of the highlights of this course. In addition, we've asked the directors and the speakers to really highlight the information that has come up over and over again on exams. A lot of speakers have actually highlighted in the talk, boldface, remember this, remember this. In order to keep the speakers on time, what we've asked them also to do is put a bunch of test questions in your handouts for the lectures. And they may not necessarily go over all of the test questions during the talk, depending on how they're doing. That being said, all the answers are in your handouts. And you can go over them a lot of times at your convenience as well. A couple of announcements to get started. First of all, everything you're going to hear in these talks is going to be available on the My OSSM tab in your My OSSM account. So you can claim your CME by going to the AOSSM site, going to My Account when you're done, and log in and claim the days that you're here. After each day after the meeting, you're going to get an email, an electronic evaluation request. And it takes five minutes to fill out. But we really do ask that you do that. I know every course you go to says that. But again, unlike a lot of the other courses, we take it very, very seriously. And in real time, literally the week after this course ends, a lot of the talks get refined. So please fill those out. Breakfast is going to be available each morning. Lunch is provided today and tomorrow as well, downstairs in the Rogue Room. And again, to access the lectures themselves, if you go to www.sportsmed.org, go to the My OSSM, go to the Meetings tab, and then you click on the Resources link next to the 2017 review course. The only change in the order of talks, just to make note of, is the spine talk. We had a lot of shoulder today. The spine talk and the spine imaging are going to be the last session today. And then I'm going to be doing the rotator cuff talk and the rotator cuff imaging on Sunday where the spine was. So spine talk is this afternoon, and then the rotator cuff in the morning. I'm going to turn it over to Chris Cady now to make some comments and to get the course going. But again, enjoy it. It's a lot. I know it's a long day to sit, but trust me, it's worth it. And I think it's actually, you'll be excited at the end when you see how much has come rushing back. So welcome to Chicago. Thanks, Tom. And I want to echo some of Tom's comments real quickly in that this is a kind of a unique course, because if you're looking for things that are new, things that are controversial, what's the latest and innovative, that's not the goal of this course. You guys are here for a purpose. I suspect the vast majority are here to prepare yourself for the sports subspecialty certification exam. So this course, the content, the speakers, the focus is all on educating and rounding out your students on what's testable information for the exam. Now, I've been involved in this course for a couple of years, and I think it's a very good course. In order to keep it good and to hopefully make it better, your feedback, as Tom mentioned, is important. So please give us feedback on how we can make this an even better course. So with that, we'll start off the course. And to kick it off, I want to introduce Corey Edgar from the University of Connecticut, who's going to give us an overview of leg and ankle. Good morning, everybody. So my name's Tom Gill from Boston. Chris Kading, my partner here. I want to welcome you to Chicago. If none of you have been to a review course before, or if you have, this course is really kind of different and, I think, unique in many, many ways. This is really a this-is-what-you-need-to-know type of course. So if you're looking for literature review of my research in the field of AC joint dislocations, you're not going to get it here, fortunately. But this is a lot of information. And if you just kind of take, you've all learned this stuff before, but take kind of inventory of what you remember today, and we should talk at the end of the day on Sunday. It's really remarkable. It all come rushing back. But it's not like you go to meetings, and you say, oh, that's an interesting talk, or I can go get some coffee during this talk, or I'm going to go walk Michigan Avenue during this talk. Every one of these talks has been worked and refined, and we've used all the input over the years from the course evaluations to refine each of the talks. And I know for me, one of the highlights is always the medical talks. Because as orthopedic surgeons, we work with ACLs and cuffs. Not that you don't want to come to Chris and my ACL and knee talks place. But that being said, it's the medical stuff that we don't necessarily think about every single day that I think is really one of the highlights of this course. In addition, we've asked the directors and the speakers to really highlight the information that has come up over and over again on exams. A lot of speakers have actually highlighted in the talk, you know, boldface, remember this, remember this. In order to keep the speakers on time, what we've asked them also to do is put a bunch of test questions in your handouts for the lectures. And they may not necessarily go over all of the test questions during the talk, depending on how they're doing. That being said, all the answers are in your handouts. And you can go over them a lot of times at your convenience as well. A couple of announcements to get started. First of all, everything you're going to hear in these talks is going to be available on the My OSSM tab and your My OSSM account. So you can claim your CME by going to the AOSSM site, going to My Account when you're done, and log in and claim the days that you're here. After each day, after the meeting, you're going to get an email, an electronic evaluation request. And it takes five minutes to fill out. But we really do ask that you do that. I know every course you go to says that. But again, unlike a lot of the other courses, we take it very, very seriously. And in real time, literally the week after this course ends, a lot of the talks get refined. So please fill those out. Breakfast is going to be available each morning. Lunch is provided today and tomorrow as well, downstairs in the Rogue Room. And again, to access the lectures themselves, if you go to www.sportsmed.org, go to the My OSSM, go to the Meetings tab, and then you click on the Resources link next to the 2017 review course. The only change in the order of talks, just to make note of, is the spine talk. We had a lot of shoulder today. The spine talk and the spine imaging are going to be the last session today. And then I'm going to be doing the rotator cuff talk and the rotator cuff imaging on Sunday, where the spine was. So spine talk is this afternoon, and then the rotator cuff in the morning. I'm going to turn it over to Chris Cady now to make some comments and to get the course going. But again, enjoy it. It's a lot. I know it's a long day to sit, but trust me, it's worth it. And I think it's actually, you'll be excited at the end when you see how much has come rushing back. So welcome to Chicago. Thanks, Tom. And I want to echo some of Tom's comments real quickly in that this is a kind of a unique course, because if you're looking for things that are new, things that are controversial, what's the latest and innovative, that's not the goal of this course. You guys are here for a purpose. I suspect the vast majority are here to prepare yourself for the sports subspecialty certification exam. So this course, the content, the speakers, the focus is all on educating and rounding out your knowledge on what's testable information for the exam. Now, I've been involved in this course for a couple of years, and I think it's a very good course. In order to keep it good and to hopefully make it better, your feedback, as Tom mentioned, is important. So please give us feedback on how we can make this an even better course. So with that, we'll start off the course. And to kick it off, I want to introduce Corey Edgar from the University of Connecticut, who's going to give us an overview of leg and ankle. All right, Corey.

Tom Gill

Chris Kading

review course

medical talks

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