Elected and Appointed Roles
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Hand Diploma
Reading Lists/Resource Material
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Module 1: Basic Sciences
Embryology/Anatomy
Al-Qattan MM, Kozin SH....
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Fellows
Previously known as Full Members, Fellows are registered medical practitioners of consultant or equivalent status and permanently established surgeons working in the UK who...
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Our History
After the second world war, a number of surgeons perceived that the older specialty of orthopaedics and the younger plastic surgery, pushed into prominence by the requirements of burned airmen, had a great deal to offer when jointly...
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Project title: Assessing the outcome of surgery for Dupuytren’s disease of the hand
Grant Holder:
Mr Jeremy N Rodrigues
Position:
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Plastic Surgery,...
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Who we are
We are the British Society for Surgery of the Hand Our registered company number is 121 3983 and our registered charity number is 268396. Our registered office address is Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43...
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Who are the British Society for Surgery of the Hand?
The aims of the BSSH are to promote and direct the development of Hand Surgery, to foster and co-ordinate education, study and research in Hand Surgery, and to disseminate knowledge...
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Specialist Society Status
The British Society for Surgery of the Hand includes over 800 plastic, orthopaedic and hand surgeons, trainees and health professionals who provide care for the injured and disordered hand.
A "Hand Club" has...
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BSSH Mentors
Alex Kocheta
Northeast & Yorkshire
City/Town of practice: Rotheram
Pronouns: He/Him
Alex's bio
Having been brought up on the Essex / Hertfordshire border, I attended King’s College...
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This position has a one-year tenure (extendable) and is available from 1st March 2021. The successful applicant will work with the team of five Editors under the guidance of the Editor in Chief. A considerable amount of work goes into the...
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Please join us on Wednesday 27th January from 7-8pm UK time to review 2 important papers - one, a review of pyrocarbon implants in the hand; the other, a comparison of outcomes following FDP only or FDP and FDS tendon repairs.
We...
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The inaugural session of the Journal Club webinar series took place on Wednesday 30 September, brought to you by the European Journal of Hand Surgery.
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Webinar 1 was hosted by Zaf Naqui, featuring JHSEur Editor Michel...
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I am to demit as Chair of the Committee of Management of JHS-E at the end of the year and will hand over the reins to Grey Giddins, who is sure to do a great job. JHS-E continues to perform strongly; the Impact Factor for 2020 has been released for...
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FESSH is looking for candidates to take up FESSH officer positions from June 2023 and has asked BSSH to suggest suitable candidates. The positions below are open and if you inspect the links, you will find that some of our BSSH colleagues already...
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This position has a three-year tenure (extendable) and is available from 1 April 2022. The successful applicant will work with six other Editors under the guidance of the Editor-in-Chief.
The successful applicant will be a hand surgeon with...
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Despite the cancellation of our 2020 Scientific meetings, the BSSH wanted to provide the opportunity for successful authors to present their free papers from the Spring 2020 Meeting. We received some fantastic abstracts and are delighted to share...
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Donated to BSSH by Ian Trail, the implant collection paints a vivid history of the early development of hand implants. It was personally collated by Adrian Flatt (1921-2017) who had a long and major interest in the...
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The BSSH has a wealth of material stored at the BSSH offices at the Royal College of Surgeons including many items of interest from the early days of the society. We are committed to making them visible to the wider membership and...
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The Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) is now on Twitter! The Twitter handle is JHSEur
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We will be hosting a two-monthly journal club to explore global research in Plastic and Hand Surgery and build research and data interpretation skills amongst members and our international colleagues.
We hope to see as many of you...
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This is a combined Journal Club JHSEur and HAND in Focus (AASH).
Authors below will participate and discuss their work. Invited experts Drs. Frederik Verstreken and Jeffrey Yao will present challenges and questions. This session will be...
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Journal Club: Scapholunate Ligament Injury
13th of April, 2024 @ 13:00pm GMT +1 (London) / 14:00pm (Paris, Madrid) / 20:00pm (Beijing/Perth/Singapore) / 21:00pm (Tokyo)
Journal of Hand Surgery European (JHSE) / Journal of...
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BFIRST and BSSH global outreach trainees are hosting their next journal club on Wednesday 15th February. Our aim is to explore global research in Plastic and Hand Surgery and build research and data interpretation skills amongst members and our...
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The next Journal club for the Journal of Hand Surgery European Volume is here!
We are excited to collaborate with PULPe, the Paediatric Upper Limb project to look at two congenital hand papers. With co-hosts Daniel Weber and Christina...
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The Journal clubs are back! The next instalment is happening on 28th September 1930 (BST). We will be looking at two papers on trapeziometacarpal arthritis and the surrounding issues including new ways of outcome measures and re-exploring...
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The next instalment is happening on 7th December at 19:30 (GMT).
We will be looking at the following two papers:
PAPER 1: Volar plating versus external fixation for unstable dorsal fracture-dislocations of the proximal...
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We will be looking at the following two papers:
Paper 1 - Pickering GT, Fine NF, Knapper TD, Giddins GEB. The reliability of clinical assessment of distal radioulnar joint instability. J Hand Surg Eur. 2022, 47:375-8.
Paper 2 - Krauss S,...
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Join us on out webinar on the principles of replantation with cases discussions.
Learning objectives
Relevant anatomy for digital replantation
The importance of the mechanism of injury
A safe method of transportation of the...
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After gaining extremely useful feedback and ideas from those that attended the face to face BSSH Strategy Day in November 2023, we would now like to extend the opportunity to members who could not attend in person and want to...
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