AOA Programs & Audiences

Audience: Approximately 200 PGY4 orthopaedic residents

Top PGY4 residents, many of whom will become their program’s chief resident, are nominated to participate in the C. McCollister Evarts Resident Leadership Forum by their leadership program. This leadership development program provides Resident Leaders with interactive sessions and the opportunity to network with US and Canadian peers and orthopaedic leaders. AOA gathers the resident leaders and Program Directors, virtually and in-person, to allow for productive exchange, identification of issues, and designing workable solutions to further advance the profession and graduate medical education.

Resident Leadership Education

• The C. McCollister Evarts Resident Leadership Forum (RLF) provides an interactive introduction to leadership concepts for the top 200 PGY4 residents in North America and is part of the AOA Annual Leadership Meeting.
• The Regional Resident Meetings blend AOA’s signature leadership education with practice management wisdom for those on the cusp of transitioning into the start of a successful orthopaedic career. Topics include negotiation skills, securing your first job, and practice setting considerations.

Audience: Over 800 PGY5-10th year orthopaedic leaders in clinical practice

The AOA’s Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) delivers a continuum of learning for developing orthopaedic leaders in their 5th year of residency through their 10th year of clinical practice. Newly in practice, these rising orthopaedists are among a highly select group of individuals poised to impact the specialty now and in the future. The ELP recognizes and develops early career orthopaedic leaders through participation in AOA leadership forums, the AOA Annual Meeting, learning modules, a monthly e-newsletter focused on critical issues, the ability to serve on AOA Committees, and learn valuable executive leadership skills from established in the profession.

Approximately 70% of Resident Leadership Forum nominees join the Emerging Leaders Program each year. Since the start of the Emerging Leaders Program in 2004, Emerging Leaders continue to transition through the program to become AOA members.

Emerging Leaders Education

• The Emerging Leaders Forum (ELF) gathers over 100 Emerging Leaders during the AOA Annual Meeting to address critical issues impacting the orthopaedic community and leadership development with interactive sessions and exercises.
• Hyperlocal Conference with Multiple Locations is an innovative activity where the event takes place in different locations nationwide. Educational content can be shared via a virtual broadcast to multiple locations on the same date and time. AOA Members and Emerging Leaders can meet more regionally and be connected by the shared content with a strong focus on networking and leadership education.
• AOA/USC APEX Leadership Certificate Program is a unique partnership between the AOA and the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, Executive Education. This program combines in- person and distance-learning formats to address essential leadership development skills required of surgeons today. AOA’s signature blend of leadership development, with direct relevance to orthopaedics and issues confronting medicine, allows individuals to expand their knowledge and leadership skills.

Audience: More than 1,800 orthopaedic leaders

Only orthopaedic surgeons who have made significant contributions to orthopaedic leadership education, research, and practice are selected for AOA membership. AOA members are deans, department chairs, program directors and other influential decision makers.

AOA Member Education

• The Annual Leadership Meeting brings our orthopaedic leaders from all career stages together to exchange ideas about the subspecialty and most current topics and issues facing the profession. The General Sesson is comprised of cutting-edge symposia that are leadership focused and allow for significant and meaningful discussion between members, young leaders, and industry partners.
• AOA/USC APEX Leadership Certificate Program is a unique partnership between the AOA and the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, Executive Education. This program combines in- person and distance-learning formats to address essential leadership development skills required of surgeons today. AOA’s signature blend of leadership development, with direct relevance to orthopaedics and issues confronting medicine, allows individuals to expand their knowledge and leadership skills.
• Regional Leadership Meetings offer the opportunity for local surgeons to gather for a leadership presentation an valuable networking at a conveniently located venue.
• Leadership Institute is a virtual and interactive workshop designed to acquire an effective framework for successfully negotiating the US healthcare environment. Participants learn to frame and diagnose a problem, and challenge ways of identifying patterns that can lead to innovative solutions.

Audience: Over 1,000 Program Directors, Assistant Program Directors, Fellowship Directors, Department Chairs and Vice Chairs, Program Coordinators, and faculty; 195 accredited allopathic and osteopathic residency programs

The Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors (CORD) membership is held at the institutional level. CORD provides a forum for academic orthopaedists to share best practices, discuss and find solutions to challenges, collaborate on tools and resources, and find new ways to effectively teach residents. This Program represents more than 95% of all US orthopaedic residency programs.

CORD Education

Since 2009, CORD has provided educational programming, materials, and a forum for the exchange of ideas among leaders in orthopaedic graduate medical education (GME). CORD frequently influences educational advancements by establishing best practices in orthopaedic GME to achieve common educational goals. Key decision makers such as Department Chairs, Program Directors, Fellowship Directors, and program faculty participate in CORD programming and have commented that they truly value CORD membership because there is no other similar group of colleagues with whom to share ideas and find solutions to challenges. CORD conducts two annual conferences, in March and June, each of which draws 150-300 participants.

Audience: More than 5,000 providers including orthopaedic surgeons, NPs, PAs, and RNs, and other multidisciplinary MDs, (rheumatologists, endocrinologists, internal/family medicine, geriatricians).

Integrated health systems, hospitals, and practice groups use Own the Bone to coordinate and deliver team-based bone health care for fragility patients. The program educates providers and their teams on how to implement bone health counseling, care coordination, and management through live, virtual, and on-demand activities and provides easy-to-use tools, best practices resources, and a patient registry.

Own the Bone Education

• The annual Own the Symposium is a popular CME/CNE-accredited symposium offering orthopaedic and bone health teams the knowledge to establish and run a secondary fracture prevention program or Fracture Liaison Service (FLS).
• Own the Bone hosts quarterly educational webinars featuring topics of interest to clinicians participating in bone health management and secondary fracture prevention. This webinar series is offered live and recorded for on-demand playback and target a specific topic and audience.
• The Own the Bone Orthopaedic Bone Health ECHO aims to grow and share bone health knowledge and skills among orthopaedic providers of fragility fractures and positively impact bone health treatment. Each month, a panel of experts host participants on a video conferencing platform (Zoom) to discuss current topics related to bone health and to initiate a dialogue around patient cases presented by participants.

Virtual or In-Person Activity

Partner with the AOA to organize a 60-90 minute panel discussion with 8-12 subject matter experts specific to the topic of interest to your company. This panel can be held in conjunction with the AOA’s Annual Leadership Meeting in June or at other AOA leadership conferences throughout the year.

The AOA podcast Lessons in Orthopaedic Leadership series has quickly gained popularity with an average of 500 downloads per episode. The podcast sponsorship includes advertising, read by our host, that features your company and message with a pre-roll, mid-roll, or post-roll placement. Support recognition through your company’s handle and/or a website link will be included in the Episode Notes.

Connect with AOA audiences at smaller one-evening regional events. Join 40-60 orthopaedic surgeons, both AOA Members and Emerging Leaders, at a reception and dinner featuring a leadership speaker. Can also include a Regional Resident session.

AOA educational webinars, offered live and recorded for on-demand playback, target a specific topic and audience. Your company logo will be displayed on the opening and closing screens. Your support for specific Own the Bone webinars includes participation for up to five company representatives for the live event.

Own the Bone hosts quarterly webinars featuring topics of interest to clinicians participating in bone health management and secondary fracture prevention. AOA webinars receive positive reviews from AOA members, Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors Program Affiliates, Emerging Leaders, and musculoskeletal professionals. Recordings of previous webinars are also available for viewing by Own the Bone subscribers.