I had the privilege and pleasure of being invited to give the Congenital Hand Surgery talk at the 2019 SSHS Hand Review Course and Annual Scientific Meeting. My involvement with the society goes back to when I was a young registrar in the early 2000s, and I feel a strong attachment to the society. It is gratifying to see the society and annual meeting growing in size and strength over the years.
This is the first in a few years we had a "stand alone" meeting without an international society. In 2017, we had a joint meeting in Singapore with the ASSH. Being just our society meeting, the format reverted back to the one and a half-day schedule we usually had in the past.
The scientific committee included many younger hand surgeons in the teaching faculty for the review course. I fully support this effort by the SSHS to engage the younger surgeons in the activities of our society.
My talk was the last of the meeting on the second day as part of the hand surgery symposia. I remember my time as a trainee listening to and trying to absorb as much as I could from the lectures at Hand Review Courses in the past. Because the program is very packed, there is too much information to absorb. Tina Lee, who is my team senior resident now, commented at the end of the first day that it was difficult to stay focused after the second slide. I have been there and completely understand what she feels.
For my talk, I provided a link to the slides in the beginning of my talk to allow the trainees to have a chance to view the slides in tandem with my talk, and to use them as a resource for their own review later on. The original link I provided was to the PDF in my Dropbox, but I just uploaded the slide version onto slideshare, which I also embedded below, so that a larger audience can find and access it.
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