The BOTA Annual Congress 2026 is coming to Edinburgh 24–27th November 🏴
This years theme “Operating at Your Best” looks to advancing not only technical skills but also performance & surgeon wellbeing 🧠🖐️
Save the date. Abstracts opening soon.
Prof Harold Ellis qualified in 1948 during the inception of the NHS. Till this day he has dedicated his life to it, to surgery and to educating & inspiring future generations. BOTA would like to thank him for his years of hard work, dedication & for being a role model to so many!
Ms Samantha Tross (@samanthatross) is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon practicing in London. She also became the first black female orthopaedic surgeon in the UK in 2005. Thank you for everything you have done for the orthopaedic community! #BOTABHM
The Presidential handover, welcome to your new post @karenkchui- our new BOTA president 2023-24! 🎊
Thankyou for your hard work this year @OrthoSingh, you’ve been a fantastic president & we look forward to having you on committee as our past president! 💪
Massive congratulations to Mr Alistair Mayne @MayneAlistair who is a Trauma & Orthopaedic Registrar in Northern Ireland for winning the Walter Mercer Medal, awarded annually to the candidate who achieves the highest mark in the FRCS(orth) exam at the first attempt.
Well done!!
“Trainees are the solution to the waiting list backlog not the obstruction. They are the consultants of the future and the backlog is not going anywhere anytime soon, therefore we must find ways to train them”
@laura_deriu#BOAAC21#botaboacongress#orthotwitter
…and the winner is Mr Mike Riedy, BOTA’s trainer of the year! 💯👏 thankyou for supporting trainees and helping them excel! 🚀🏆 #botaac23#careerdevelopment#galadinner
TOTYs across the country - what a sight! 😍
Thank you to all the trainers who dedicate their time and effort to us trainees! We are forever grateful to you all! 🙏
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, Bota are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our third nominee is Ms Samantha Tross! @samanthatross@BOTA_WinS@BOTA_CD@BritOrthopaedic@RCSnews
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, BOTA are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our fifth nominee is Ms Joanna Maggs! @joanna_maggs@BOTA_WinS@BOTA_CD@BritOrthopaedic@RCSnews
The results of the @bota_uk web awards have been announced!
We had a massive number of votes and would like to thank everyone who nominated and voted!
Congratulations to our winners! @OrthohubXYZ , @funorthopaedics , @AOSurgery , @OR_UK , @OrthoAcademy1 and @FrcsMentor
After a successful nomination period of our International Women's Day campaign, BOTA are pleased to continue our campaign celebrating incredible women in orthopaedics. Our eighth nominee is Miss Sue Deakin!
@BOTA_WinS@BritOrthopaedic@RCSnews
The Pulvertaft is world renowned and have kindly been hosting amazing free webinars for us all to attend. The next is this Mon at 8:30pm by Mr Sammut on the Biomechanics of the intrinsics and is NOT to be missed! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…@The_Pulvertaft@BritOrthopaedic@BSSHand
