Columbia Orthopedics Tumor Review: Resident Seminar
Webinar / October 31, 2020 / 8am – 2pm
Pathology slide of an epitheliod sarcoma of the hand.
If the image above sets your heart racing, you may want to attend the Columbia Orthopedics Tumor Review: Resident Seminar – a high yield review course designed to prepare residents for the up-coming Orthopedic In-Training Exam. The focus will be orthopedic oncology – a clinical, radiographic, and pathologic review of the most commonly seen oncologic issues that orthopedic surgeons treat.
Join national orthopedic oncology leaders on Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 8am EST for this 6 hour seminar. There is a $25 registration fee for this event.
Upon completion participants should have a knowledge of:
- Principals of diagnosis and management of common benign and malignant bone tumors
- Diagnosis and management of soft tissue tumors
- Work up of a bone lesion and treatment of patients with metastatic bone disease
- Understanding of histology of commonly encountered orthopedic tumors
- Common testing pitfalls to avoid in answering oncologic related questions
Course Director
Wakenda K. Tyler, MD, MPH
- Chief, Orthopedic Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Seminar Agenda
I. Interactive Pre-Test – 20 min
II. Soft Tissue Tumors – 60 min
- Benign
- Malignant
III. Malignant Bone Tumors – 45 min
- OGS
- Ewings
- Chondrosarcoma
IV. Benign Bone – 1 h 45 min
- Cartilage Forming
- Bone Forming
- Fibrous/other (GCT, NOF, Fib Dys, Osteo Fib Dys, Osteomyelitis)
- Syndromes (Maffucci, MHE, Ollier, McCune-Albright, NF1)
V. Metastatic Disease and Workup of Unknow Primary – 30 min
VI. Random/Rare things – 45 min
- Paget’s, Melorheostosis, Osteopoikilosis, Osteopetrosis, FOP
VII. Post-test Questions – 30 min