Join your peers. Become a member of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association. We value your membership. We’re working for you.
You enjoy access to quality CME programmes at reduced member rates; you can learn about the latest ideas and innovations from researchers and manufacturers; you can apply to prestigious national and international travelling fellowships; or you can connect with leading thinkers in orthopaedics.
Annual Meeting
Considerably reduced registration fees are offered exclusively to all categories of membership.
Communications & Access to Education
Weekly e-newsletter, the COA Dispatch where members can promote courses and events in your centre, request participation in a research survey or share news of interest with your colleagues.
Reduced annual subscription fees to the Bone & Joint Journal and to Bone & Joint 360. These can be purchased at the time of your membership renewal or anytime throughout the year The BJJ covers the most clinically challenging areas in orthopaedics and provides the very best information required for each orthopaedic subspecialty. Bone & Joint 360 is a digest journal designed to keep you up-to-date across all areas of orthopaedics.
Complete access to myorthoevidence.com. OrthoEvidence is an online provider of the highest quality orthopaedic evidence providing instant access to summaries and appraisals of the best available research.
Access to job listings in the COA Job Board where members can advertise an available position in your centre at no charge or be notified when a new job is posted online.
By attending a COA event or meeting, members gain valuable networking opportunities with their colleagues from across the country.
Advocacy, Media and Government Relations
The COA represents the viewpoints and best interests of the orthopaedic community with provincial and federal Health Ministries, the Royal College, the Canadian Medical Association and other key stakeholders.
Strength in numbers to address major concerns in the profession, such as the current underemployment of surgeons across Canada.
Members are encouraged to take a leadership role in local advocacy efforts, using tools at your disposal through the COA web site.
Fostering You Through Training to Retirement
There are no annual membership dues for resident and fellow members as well as for our senior members who have retired from active clinical practice.
Orthopaedic graduates who are not yet in a full-time position are also not charged any annual membership fees. Dues are then decreased by 50% during your first year of active clinical practice.
Membership in Affiliated Societies
COA membership is a now a prerequisite in order to join several Canadian subspecialty societies.
All COA members can opt-in to access the Bone & Joint Journal and Bone & Joint 360. This simple opt-in step is done via your COA online Membership Portal to gain access to the reduced annual subscription fees offered exclusively to members.
The Bone & Joint Journalcovers the most clinically challenging areas in orthopaedics and provides the very best information required for each orthopaedic subspecialty.
Bone & Joint 360 is a digest journal designed to keep you up-to-date across all areas of orthopaedics.
All COA members can opt-in to access the Bone & Joint Journal and Bone & Joint 360. This simple opt-in step is done via your COA online Membership Portal to gain access to the reduced annual subscription fees offered exclusively to members.
Access to reduced subscription fees the Bone & Joint Journal (BJJ) are offered to all member categories through an opt-in process in the COA’s online Membership Portal. These can be purchased at the time of your membership renewal or anytime throughout the year. If you have any questions, please contact info@canorth.org
COA Members Receive Unlimited Premium Access to OrthoEvidence
OrthoEvidence (OE) is THE global content provider of the best evidence in orthopaedics. Through their web site, they provide complete summaries of the best orthopaedic research, updated daily. More than 55,000 practitioners and surgeons from more than 150 countries use OrthoEvidence because they provide a huge offering of summaries from more than 360 journals, they summarize only the VERY BEST (top 5%) evidence in orthopaedics all in one place (so you know the information you are reading is good), and they provide summaries that identify clinical implications, and are easy to quickly read and utilize in practice.
What does OE give me?
Unlimited access to more than 5,300 reports summarizing the Level 1 evidence published over the past 7 years in orthopaedics
Access to a breadth of content from 300+ journals and 14 different specialty areas including Trauma, Sports Medicine, Spine, Arthroplasty, Foot & Ankle, Shoulder & Elbow, Cannabis, and more.
Access to summaries of research presented at major conferences from across the world including the COA Annual Meeting and AAOS!
Ability to earn an unlimited number of CME credits by simply reading OrthoEvidence reports
Access to OrthoEvidence’s PeerView feature which allows you to quickly see the most popular research as read by orthopaedic surgeons from around the world.
Your very own Fast Track program, which will send you the most viewed content by COA members every month in the areas most important to YOU!
Haven’t received your OrthoEvidence account information? Contact info@myorthoevidence.comto get setup with your personal account today!
Want to get involved with the OrthoEvidence Editorial Board? Contact info@myorthoevidence.com if you want to learn more!
