How Safe and Time Consuming is the Surgical Training of Young Orthopaedic Surgeons? A Retrospective Analysis of Proximal Femur Fractures.

Konrad SchuetzeCarlos PankratzAlexander EickhoffFlorian GebhardPeter Richter

Published in: Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie (2021)

Supervised surgical training during treatment of proximal femur fractures shows no increase in operating time, complications or mortality and no difference in quality. With the fast growth of the elderly population, surgical training of fragility fractures should receive more attention in the future.

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