Jan 8, 2016 | Performance Measures
In early 2016, The Joint Commission (TJC) will launch a new Advanced Certification program for Total Hip and Total Knee Replacements. TJC is currently finalizing the standardized performance measures for this program. The Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) for this...
Jan 8, 2016 | Education, Spring Meeting
Attendees can earn CME credit at the First Annual AAHKS Spring Meeting taking place March 31-April 2, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, DC. Visit the AAHKS website for complete details and to register. Registration is limited to 200 participants....
Jan 8, 2016 | AAHKS Business
AAHKS is seeking volunteers to work with the AAOS’s Evidence-Based Medicine Unit on a writing panel and a voting panel regarding six consensus statements related to the Surgical Management of Osteoarthritis of the Knee (SMOAK) Guidelines. These guidelines were...
Jan 8, 2016 | Fellowships, International
AAHKS has developed a visiting fellow program with the Chinese Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (CAOS). AAHKS leadership attended the CAOS meeting in the spring of 2015 and interviewed about forty pre-selected candidates for the program. The candidates were very...