DELHI TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP 2015
I would like to thank Dr. Lalit Maini and Dr. Pushphinder Bajaj for providing me this opportunity for pursuing this travelling fellowship programme in Delhi for 2 weeks. This fellowship helped me to enhance and expand various surgical skills about arthroscopy and arthroplasty after my interaction with various surgeons who are experts in their field of work.
On first day Artemis hospital in Gurugram was the place we visited. There we were received by Dr. IPS Oberoi. He had a very diverse list of Orthopaedics cases in his operation theatre. I was fortunate to see TKR done on fused knee joint. That was a first for me. Dr. IPS Oberoi also did ACL and PCL reconstruction and rotator cuff repair on the same day. The clarity of his thoughts and the skill on show was unmatchable.
After the first day our expectations grew and the student in us was feeling very excited for the next thing on the list at new centres. We visited many premier centres like AIIMS, Saftarjung hospital, Sports injury centre, Gangaram Hospital, Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj, Indian Spinal Injury Centrel with wide array of procedures ranging from TKR , THR, unicondylar knee replacement, arthroscopic ACL and PCL reconstructions, meniscal repairs, MPFL repair, shoulder arthroscopy like bankarts repair and rotator cuff single and double row repairs. All consultants made us feel at home and took pain to explain the procedures. They gracefully cleared our doubts and also joined us for lunch.
Shoulder arthroscopy which was explained to us in Safdarjung Hospital really cleared my orientation of shoulder joint through a scope. The basics of shoulder arthroscopy were clearly taught. It really made me feel that it's not as difficult a procedure as I thought it to be.
This short term fellowship experience will help me to further polish my surgical skills in my day to day practice. The experts taught us openly and thus within short span of time we could incorporate many favourable modifications in our surgical skills and the entire credit goes to ISKSAA and its proficient president and chairman for carrying out this responsibility efficiently.
Once again I would thank Dr. Lalit Maini sir and Dr.Pushpinder Bajaj sir for giving me this splendid opportunity under ISKSAA. I have been benefite by this fellowship tremendously. I hope my association with ISKSAA will flourish and look forward to contribute positively to ISKSAA in future.
Dr. Ankur Sharma
ISKSAA Member-1220