ISKSAA JRC AUSTRALIA TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP 2024
To,
Dr Pushpinder Bajaj
ISKSAA President
Firstly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Pushpinder Bajaj, Dr. Lalit Maini, Dr Jaganath Krishnan and Dr Sunil Reddy for providing me the opportunity to learn and develop my knowledge and skills in the orthopaedic subspecialty of arthroplasty and arthroscopy through the ISKSAA JRC AUSTRALIA TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP.
I started my fellowship on August 19th and completed on September 13th, 2024 (4 weeks). During this period, I had the opportunity to observe approximately 100-110 surgeries. I learned various tips and tricks from experts who were really interested in teaching and explaining all the procedures and techniques to me.
I felt really lucky to have had the opportunity to learn from Dr. Sunil Reddy, Dr Swapnil (Bobby) Pandit and Dr Aman Sood who, with his skill, speed and accuracy made sure the outcome of every surgery was nothing less than perfect. He taught me techniques to complete surgeries in a quick and perfect way. I could stop him anywhere to clear my doubts and he was always ready with a convincing answer and made sure that my query was answered before proceeding with the surgery. During the course of the fellowship I was able to assist him in total knee replacement, total hip replacement, revision total knee replacement, ACL reconstruction and meniscus repair, Biceps tendon repair, Total Shoulder replacement and reverse shoulder replacement, in total, which helped me gain depth and knowledge in managing arthroplasty & arthroscopy cases. One added advantage during my fellowship was assisting a lot of robotic joint replacement cases too. I would like to thank the anaesthetists, theatre staff, ward staff and doctors for helping me during the entire period of fellowship.
To be a part of ISKSAA fellowship was a tremendous experience which will inspire and encourage me as a person and surgeon for the rest of my professional career to achieve and provide the highest standard of care under the given circumstances.
Regards
Dr. Sanket Tanpure
