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The COA offers membership categories for orthopaedic professionals from residency through to retirement. Join your peers and become a COA member today.
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Pay your annual dues, update your contact information, visit the Job Board and access your membership benefits by logging in to the members’ area of the site.
#FastTrackCare
The COA is involved with a public awareness, government relations and advocacy campaign called ‘Fast Track Care’, tackling surgical wait times in orthopaedics now, and as we navigate the new normal after the pandemic. You can get involved too!
#FastTrackCare was developed by Mobilize Canada, a coalition made up of the COA, the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation, and the orthopaedic industry members of Medtech Canada. The initiative uses simple one step resources to empower surgeons, patients and allies to engage with provincial governments to:
- bring awareness to orthopaedic wait lists further exacerbated by COVID-19
- remove the misconception that ‘elective’ orthopaedic procedures are optional or lifestyle surgeries
- advocate for the prioritization of orthopaedic procedures amid the pandemic, and emphasize that Canada has the human resource capacity to ramp up procedures
On www.fasttrackcare.ca, the #FastTrackCare Campaign offers the opportunity to automatically send an e-mail to your respective Provincial MLA and Provincial Minister of Health. This e-mail can be customized with a personal impact story and emphasizes that patients are waiting in pain for restorative procedures that are now further delayed by the pandemic. These are tools that allow your voice to be heard.
It’s time make our collective voice and message louder and stronger together. It’s time to speak up.
2021 Annual Meeting Goes Virtual
The COA’s Board of Directors met recently to discuss the impact of the ongoing risk and restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2021 COA, CORS, CORA Annual Meeting format.
Current and anticipated public health directives related to travel and gathering restrictions impact our ability to hold a large in-person meeting in Vancouver in 2021 as planned. To ensure a safe learning environment, the 2021 COA, CORS and CORA Annual Meeting will be held virtually from June 15-19, 2021.
- 4 evenings of online education + 1 day of hybrid programming streamed from Vancouver
- Tuesday, June 15 to Saturday, June 19
- Subspecialty programming, CORA and CORS sessions, presentation and networking opportunities
Stay up to date by visiting: https://coa-aco.org/annual-meeting-2021/. Registration opens in 2021.
The Call for Abstracts remains open with its extended deadline of December 14.
Eposter and epodium presentation opportunities are available for COA, CORS and CORA presenters.
Submit Today!
Residents! The CORA call for abstracts is included in this year’s COA submission process. Be sure to select the ‘CORA’ option when submitting and review the CORA abstract guidelines carefully for direction.
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