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Specimen Lab Courses

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Designed for Orthopaedic Surgeons

EFAS, under the leadership of its Specimen Committee, organises each year 4 to 5 Specimen Lab Courses, designed for orthopaedic surgeons with the motivation to learn differents aspects of foot and ankle pathologies, and improve their skills in foot and ankle surgical techniques in 2 categories. Supervised by the experienced EFAS faculty, participants of the courses will practice their techniques on cadavers.

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Basic course

This course covers the main topics and basic surgical techniques in foot and ankle such as Hallux Valgus surgery, Hallux rigidus surgery, Ankle instability, Metatarsalgia, Hindfoot arthrodesis.  Each topic starts with a short theorical presentation, followed by a demonstration from the faculty and ends with 40 minutes of practical work on foot foot by participants.

Advanced course

This course covers more advanced topics, such as arthroscopic techniques and sport lesions in foot an ankle,  degenerative articular lesions in foot and ankle, flat foot and DTP and complications of this pathology, Ankle arthroplasty and their complications. The approach in 3 phases - theorical presentation, faculty demonstration, and practical work - is similar to basic course. 

The participants work with fresh cadaver specimens, all tested and with all safety guarantees.

Upcoming Speciment Lab Courses

EFAS Specimen Lab Committee is searching for new members
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EFAS Specimen Lab Committee is searching for new members

EFAS Specimen Lab Committee : call for applications

The Specimen Lab Committee is looking for experienced Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeons committed to teaching and education to complete the Specimen Lab Committee team. The Specimen Lab Committee, under the supervision from EFAS Council, is in charge of the organization of all the EFAS Specimen Lab and Cadaver Courses. The Chairman of the committee is Xavier Martin, Honorary Treasurer of EFAS.

To apply, please fulfill the online application on the top of the page: https://www.efas.net/members/organisation/efas-committees/application

Applicants’ requirements (essential):

  • Application should be referenced by 2 EFAS Full-members
  • List of EFAS Events and Courses attended during the 5 last years
  • CV
  • Publications (related to Foot Ankle surgery in peer review journals)
  • Motivation letter

Candidates should not be serving on other EFAS Committees. The deadline for the call for application is fixed on Sunday 15st of January 2023 at 23:59 CET Time.

Applications will be evaluated according to a scoring system by the Specimen Lab Committee and the Executive Officers. The scoring system is divided into 4 steps, the last one is an interview by zoom with the Executive Officers, the Chairman and the members of the Committee.

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Past Specimen Lab Courses

Click here to access the list of the EFAS past Cadaver Courses and their programmes.