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A COA First! - Whistler Annual Meeting Webcasts
Enjoy the Whistler meeting from the comfort of your office or home! All COA members received e-mail notifications this summer containing your username, password and detailed instructions on how to view the various webcasts.  Visit www.coa-aco.org and click on the blue "Webcast" banner on the right side of the home page.  You will be impressed by what you see!

Poll 

Results
In our last online poll, members were asked to identify which issue should be the specialty's top priority. Here's what YOU said. 

22.9% = Retaining new orthopaedic graduates in Canada
21% = Recruiting gifted students into orthopaedics
17.1% = Wait times for orthopaedic care outside H&K arthroplasty
15.2% = Wait times for hip and knee arthroplasty
7.6% = Physician assistants
6.7% = Daytime trauma rooms
3.8% = Extending the careers of working surgeons
2.9% = Centralized assessment centres
2.9% = Professional ethics/conflict of interest

Current Poll
Would you feel comfortable asking a woman patient about intimate partner violence if you suspected she was a victim?  Let us know by participating in our online survey.  Check out our homepage for details! 

Position Statement on Intimate Partner Violence
The COA recognizes that intimate partner violence is a significant social determinant of morbidity and mortality, and that orthopaedic surgeons are well positioned to identify patients living with IPV and initiate an intervention. We encourage our members to educate themselves further about intimate partner violence and consider it good medical practice to take steps to identify and offer assistance to its victims. Our complete position statement and appendix is available under the Member Services > Health Policy tabs. 

Keep Up to Date!
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