Dr. Ahmed Shedeed Abdel Ghaffar discusses orthopedics as an interesting specialty. Orthopedics is a rich specialty that requires daily learning of new ideas and approaches as clinical practices evolve rapidly. It is also a creative specialty that allows for innovation to continuously improve solutions. Orthopedics is challenging because it demands daily acquisition of new qualifications and information to stay updated and unique in one's career. It has many subspecialties that can each be considered independent specialties.

1. Dr. Ahmed Shedeed Abdel Ghaffar
Resident of Orthopaedics
Railways Hospital
Member of AOTrauma foundation
Member of Egyptian Orthopaedic Association
dr.ahmedshedeed@yahoo.com
Orthopaedics As An interesting
Specialty

2. Orthopedics
as
A Very hard SpecialtyA Group of specialtiesA SpecialtyAn interesting Specialty

3. Orthopedics
• Is a rich specialty ……. Rich of scientific changes and
every day there is a new idea and application appear
for clinical practice
• Everyday New idea appears as preferred choice and
NEXT day that yesterday idea became obsolete and
another new idea appears as the preferred choice and
on and on and on………
• So if you are not interested in studying and daily
seeking for acquiring a new knowledge , you will not
interested in Orthopedics and you will not success in
your career

4. Orthopedics
• Is a specialty which give a chance for creativity due to
continuous appearance of newly subjects and issues
with a new solution seeking for perfection.
• So you must be a creative doctor if you want to be a
good orthopedist
• Even there is a new subspecialties appear among the
other subspecialties of orthopedics

5. Orthopedics
WHY IS IT HARD ?
Simply Because It’s A Medical Specialty
WHY IS IT Very HARD ?
Also Because It’s A Medical Specialty

6. Orthopedics
• Hardness is due to the need for daily acquired qualifications
and new information to be unique in your career and to
keep up with the new methods of treatment that mostly
appear for their better results than the previous ones
• And another type of hardness that orthopedics has a lot of
subspecialties that every subspecialty can be considered as
an independent specialty has a large database of knowledge
and independent career away from the other subspecialties

7. Orthopedics
Some of these Subspecialties are :
 Trauma
 Arthroplasty
 Hip and Pelvis
 Spine
 Deformities and pediatrics
 Foot and Ankle
 Hand
 Sports Medicine
 Oncology
 Infection and non union
 Arthroscopy

8. Orthopedics
CAREER PATHWAY
Residency
Master (‫مساعد‬ ‫مدرس‬ ‫او‬ ‫أخصائى‬ ‫لتكون‬ ‫االمية‬ ‫محو‬ ‫شهادة‬)
MD (‫مدرس‬ ‫أو‬ ‫استشارى‬ ‫لتكون‬ ‫المعرفة‬ ‫بداية‬)
 ‫العظام‬ ‫تخصصات‬ ‫أحد‬ ‫فى‬ ‫جامعى‬ ‫تدرج‬
‫على‬‫التوازى‬:
‫المصرية‬ ‫الزمالة‬
‫بمراحلها‬ ‫األجنبية‬ ‫المعادالت‬ ‫و‬ ‫الزماالت‬

9. Orthopedics
Orthopedic Society

10. Orthopedics
Occupational Opportunities

11. Orthopedics
‫التميز‬
‫بالجامعة‬ ‫تدريب‬ ‫فترة‬
‫المستمر‬ ‫الطبى‬ ‫التعليم‬
‫الورش‬ ‫و‬ ‫السيمنارات‬ ‫و‬ ‫المؤتمرات‬ ‫و‬ ‫الدبلومات‬ ‫و‬ ‫الدورات‬
‫فعليا‬ ‫منها‬ ‫االستفادة‬ ‫و‬ ‫القيمة‬ ‫ذات‬ ‫الجمعيات‬ ‫عضوية‬
‫المهارات‬ ‫الكتساب‬ ‫و‬ ‫للتعليم‬ ‫للخارج‬ ‫السفر‬

12. Orthopedics
Sources of knowledge
‫كبير‬ ‫هتفضل‬ ‫كبير‬ ‫أبدا‬
Koval “ Zuckerman “
AAOS
AO Books & WEBSITE
Orthobullets Books & WEBSITE
Android & IOS applications
PDFs

13. Orthopedics
Financially
Good Specialty from the point of earning money
according to each level of the career but It is
like agriculture you should buy seeds to plant
them and then harvest them later and once you
put more seeds you will harvest more and more

14. Orthopedics
‫التعل‬ ‫مستوى‬ ‫حيث‬ ‫من‬ ‫المستشفيات‬ ‫تدرج‬‫يم‬
.1‫الجامعة‬
.2‫الجامعة‬
.3‫الجامعة‬
.4‫التعليمى‬ ‫و‬ ‫المعاهد‬
.5‫الطبية‬ ‫اإلدارة‬ ‫و‬ ‫الطلبة‬
.6‫التأمين‬
.7‫الخارجية‬ ‫الجهات‬ ‫بعض‬
.8‫الصحة‬ ‫وزارة‬

15. Take Home Message
• Orthopedics Is a rich of Knowledge
• Orthopedics needs to be a creative doctor if you
want to be a good orthopedist
• Orthopedics is a group of specialties
• Orthopedics is a good Specialty from the point of
earning money
• Orthopedics is a big Society connected by
associations
• ‫كبير‬ ‫هتفضل‬ ‫كبير‬ ‫أبدا‬
• ‫عظام‬ ‫جراحة‬ ‫إسمه‬ ‫تخصصك‬ ‫و‬ ‫جراح‬ ‫انك‬ ‫دائما‬ ‫تذكر‬
• ‫الجامعة‬

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