Introduction to Orthopaedics Workshop Fixing Fractures 2026

If you’re ready to pick up the drill and repair your first fractures, this two-day entry-level orthopaedics course is exactly what you need. Start your orthopaedic development the right way, from handling equipment to full procedural guidance and into postoperative care.

Veterinarians will perform these procedures:

• Compression plate repair of a transverse radial fracture
• Independent lag screw & neutralisation plate repair – oblique tibial fracture
• K-wire and tension band for tibial tuberosity transposition (TTT)
• Plate/rod repair – comminuted femoral fracture

Nurses & Techs will get hands-on training

• Triage
• Fracture stabilisation
• Instrument knowledge & care
• Infection control
• Patient prep for orthopaedic procedures
• Scrubbing in
• CRIs for pain management
• Monitoring anaesthesia
• Complications
• Dressings & postoperative care

This course is available to any registered veterinarian who is inspired to start orthopaedics, PLUS a nurse or tech from the same clinic. Everyone is welcome from general practice, referral hospitals, internship programs and emergency clinics.