I am highly obliged to ISKSAA for providing me opportunity as upper limb surgery fellowship at Wrightington hospital UK, under world renowned surgeon Dr Lennard Funk.

Wrightington Hospital is considered the ‘Mecca’ of orthopaedics and it is every orthopod’s dream to work there. These two weeks were so action packed that they were equivalent to two years. Every part of this journey from getting selected in fellowship, getting passport, visa, travelling, stay in UK was an absolutely different & wonderful experience. As we landed in London, greeted by pleasant weather as it was hot summer in India.

Wrightington hospital is situated in very pleasant stretch of open countryside.

Wrightington hospital stated as center of excellence in orthopaedic surgery as first ever hip replacement operations done by pioneer surgeon Sir John Charnley at Wrightington hospital.

Mr. Krishna Swamy, Mr Puneet Monga and Mr Nikhil Shah were extremely helpful in familiarizing us with the hospital and rest of the staff. All our doubts right from portal making, anatomic to complex double row rotator cuff repairs, subscapularis repairs, Bankarts and pan-labral repairs, acromioplasty,latarjet procedure, total and reverse shoulder arthroplasty, wrist arthroscopy, arthrodesis and MCP joint replacements so on and so forth were crystal cleared.

2 weeks fellowship programme was organised & well planned, that there were always someone in upper limb unit who guided you in OTs, Clinics. We had opportunity to observe 30-40 shoulder surgery and exposure in shoulder replacements, scopy everyday.

We observed 7 joint replacements (including total and reverse shoulder replacements and MCP joint replacement) and about 40 shoulder arthroscopies, 5 wrist arthroscopies and 2 trapezoidectomies, cubital tunnel surgeries.
Dr Lennard Funk is very kind person, surgeon with great skills and very helpful, friendly to his fellows.

By the end of the day, every day we would be overwhelmed by the academic overexposure at Wrightington.

To cool it down there was always someone or the other to take us out for a pint of beer in the evening. We were made aware of all the local delicacies and beers by our hosts.

Special mention to Dr. Amit Chaturvedi Mch fellow and Dr. Jagwant who took care of us more than elder  brother.

 We had a tour to beautiful London city, London bridge, British museum, Madam Tussaud wax museum, lake district, Manchester football club on weekends.

Overall ISKSAA WRIGHTINGTON fellowship was a wonderful and lifetime experience personally as well as professionally. My sincere thanks to my mentor Dr Pushpinder Bajaj sir , Dr. Sanjeev Anand, Dr. Lalit Maini, Dr Lennard Funk and ISKSAA team.

I am highly obliged that ISKSAA selected me to enhance my arthroscopic skills from one of the best upper limb centre and a great mentor and gifted surgeon Prof. Lennard Funk.

To summarize, I gained whole new set of arthroscopic skills, treatment protocols and knowledge which has helped me in becoming a more mature arthroscopic surgeon.

Thank you.