The Bone and Joint Decade SICOT

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The Bone and Joint DecadeSICOT

• Cyril D Toma, MD
• BJD Ambassador, Chairman SICOT Young Surgeons
  Committee
• Prince Court Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur
  Malaysia
• Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical
  University of Vienna, Vienna - Austria

Carl T Brighton Annual Workshop, Dec 11-14, 2007.
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The Bone and Joint Decade - 2000-2010

• Where do we stand today
• What are the future perspectives
• What is going to happen beyond 2010
• What have we learnt
• Conclusion if we can draw one

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• Endorsement
• Musculo-skeletal disorders are the most common
  causes of severe long-term pain and physical
  disability affecting many millions of people
  across the globe.
• They have an enormous impact on the individual,
  society and health care social systems
• There are effective ways to prevent or treat
  these disabling conditions.
• But we must act on them now.
• November 1999

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The Burden of Musculoskeletal Conditions at the
Start of the New Millennium
Musculoskeletal diseases or rheumatic
diseases are the major cause of morbidity
throughout the world. These diseases have a
substantial influence on health and quality of
life and they inflict an enormous cost on health
systems January 2000
Formal Launch of the Decade Jan 13, 2000
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland Director General, WHO
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Goal of the Decade

• To improve the health related quality of life for
  people with musculoskeletal disorders throughout
  the world

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Goal of the Decade

• To improve the health related quality of life for
  people with musculoskeletal disorders throughout
  the world

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Goal of the Decade

• To improve the health related quality of life for
  people with musculoskeletal disorders throughout
  the world

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Ahmadabad, India Dr Cyril Toma
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Goal of the Decade

• To improve the health related quality of life for
  people with musculoskeletal disorders throughout
  the world

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Goal of the Decade

• To improve the health related quality of life for
  people with musculoskeletal disorders throughout
  the world

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Goal of the Decade

• Raising awareness of the growing burden of
  musculskeletal disorders on society
• Empowering patients to participate in decisions
  on their care
• Promoting cost-effective prevention and treatment
• Winning additional funding for research to
  improve prevention and treatment
• Advance Understanding of Musculoskeletal
  Disorders and Improve Prevention, Diagnosis,
  Treatment and Rehabilitation through Research

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More!
NANs
Research
Policy Makers
Patient Empowerment
Ambassadors
BJD-Foundation
Training
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What will happen after 2010

• BJD International Steering Committee decided to
  carry on beyond 2010
• Our resolution for continuing as an organisation
  is to ensure that the valuable achievements,
  unique programmes and networks which have been
  built up since the Decades initiation, will have
  a communication platform on which to continue and
  flourish even after the end of this decade
  (Prof. Lars Lidgren, Chairman BJD ISC)
• NANs continue to play a vital role

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What will happen after 2010

• Bone and Joint

Decade
Disorders
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What will happen after 2010

• Will operate as a foundation (a non-profit
  organisation) which is a status that the BJD has
  already obtained and is free to carry on with.
• BJD has obtained the status of a WHO
  Collaborating Centre and the plan is to
  capitalise on that.
• The idea is to give leverage at the national /
  local level based on the status as a global
  movement.
• Ideas will be adapted on a regional basis and
  implemented through regional councils.

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What will happen after 2010

• First Step
• To establish a structure for initiating a global
  musculoskeletal forum.
• Continue to be a multi-discipline, multi-nation
  network which acts as a facilitator and a
  catalyst for change.
• Aim to operate as a think-tank the officially
  recognised source of expertise and information in
  the global musculoskeletal arena.

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What will happen after 2010

• Second Step
• BJD will encourage increased regional
  collaboration.
• Regional councils (Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific,
  and the Americas) may be formed to take the lead
  on regional issues, and use the existing networks
  and regional organisations to influence regional
  policy for musculoskeletal health and science.
• Their focus will be in harmony with the central
  mission of the BJD, but with a local flavour.

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What will happen after 2010

• Second Step (cont.)
• Foster the development of patient advocacy by the
  use of existing organisations to assist new
  organisations, particularly across regions, and
  in developing countries.

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The Vision beyond 2010

• A society where prevention, treatment and care of
  people with musculoskeletal disorders are of high
  standard and accessible around the world

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The Mission beyond 2010

• Promoting musculoskeletal health and science
  worldwide

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Gap Analysis

• 61 Supporting Governments
• 61 National Action Networks
• 1250 Corporate Partners and participating
  organisations
• Web site www.boneandjointdecade.org
• An internet portal project was initiated to
  develop a web-based communication and education
  system between the BJD, its professional
  societies, their members and patients of the
  members (15.000 hits / month).
• Newsletter (12.000 Physicians)

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Gap Analysis

• 61 National Action Networks
• 96 BJD National Coordinators
• 35 countries in which the networks are not yet
  recognised by their own ministers of health as a
  priority or as deserving support - even that
  of the non-financial kind

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Gap Analysis

• What are the barriers to policy change?
  Why doesnt evidence translate into
  action?
• Why do policy makers sign on, and then fail to do
  anything?
• We have to face the reality that just talking
  about the aims of the decade simply is not
  enough!!!!

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The Organisation
SICOT
La Société Internationale de Chirurgie
Orthopédique et de Traumatologie The
International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and
Traumatology

• SICOT is an international not-for-profit
  association
• The aim is to advance the science and art of
  orthopaedics and traumatology at an international
  level and to foster and develop teaching,
  research and education.
• SICOT organises Annual International Conferences,
  World Triennial Congresses and Trainees'
  Meetings. It publishes a scientific journal,
  International Orthopaedics, and a Newsletter. The
  SICOT Telediagnostic, SICOT Education Centre,
  SICOT World Portal and the SICOT Awards and
  Fellowships/Scholarships offer unique
  opportunities for education and exchange. In
  2001, SICOT launched the Young Surgeons
  Committee. In 2003, it held the first SICOT
  Diploma Examination.

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Founding Members
SICOT

• Robert Lovett (Boston), Vittorio Putti (Bologna)
  and Hans Spitzy (Vienna)
• Lovett was a member of the American Orthopaedic
  Association, the oldest of all orthopaedic
  associations (founded in 1887)

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The founders of SICO, 10 October 1929 -
Hotel Crillon, Paris, France
SICOT
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1936 3rd SICOT Congress Bologna - SICO - changes
to SICOT (Traumatology)
SICOT
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Focus in L/MI Countries
SICOT
Trauma Committee

• Road Traffic Accidents
• Land Mine Trauma
• Gun Shots
• Posttraumatic Deformities
• Tuberculosis, Infections
• Malformations
• Fracture Treatment

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Membership
SICOT

• SICOT as the leading international organization
  for orthopaedics
• 3,000 members
• 105 countries
• has members in both developed and developing
  countries
• Traditional means of communication can be slow
  and unreliable
• North / South information knowledge transfer
  very important

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The role of the Internet
SICOT

• A survey among SICOT members found
• 88 have access to the Internet
• 87 want to use Internet for education
• 87 want to use Internet to keep up with latest
  research developments
• 77 want to use Internet to support colleagues
  working in developing countries
• 58 want to use Internet as forum for debate

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Thank you!
Carl T Brighton Annual Workshop, Dec 11-14, 2007.
Ahmadabad, India Dr Cyril Toma