It is time! The theoretical web-based course in hand surgery will restart in January 2026.
Over a 2.5-year period, the book ”Plastic Surgery, Fourth Edition, Volume 6, Hand and Upper Extremity” by Peter Neligan and James Chang will be read from cover to cover.
The course is non-profit initiative emanating from the department of Hand Surgery at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. However, many of the questions are written by several Swedish specialists and consultants in hand surgery, who kindly have assisted with questions from their various areas of expertise.
The main target of the course is residents in hand surgery, but the course is also open to residents in orthopaedic surgery and consultants in hand surgery who wish to refresh, maintain or update their knowledge in hand surgery.
On a weekly schedule, reading directions for 7-9 pages are sent by e-mail to the participants, together with 4 multiple-choice questions in a web form. To be approved weekly, the correct answer is required for 3 of 4 questions. To pass the entire course, the participants must have passed at least 70% of the course weeks.
The questions are posted online for 4 weeks, after which the web form will be closed (sent out on Mondays, closed Fridays 4 weeks later). The correct answers will be sent automatically, together with a corrective form where the participants can see how they responded.
The course will have temporary breaks at holidays; 6 weeks during summer, 2 weeks in Christmas, and 1 week in connection with winter-, easter- and autumn holidays.
There will be an administrative fee for all attendees. The book is not included in the course.
Registration will be in December -25, and the course will start in January -26.
Information on dates and how to register will be announced on the SSSH web-page soon.