Your IMPACT
Building on a long legacy of excellence, the orthopaedics team at LHSC has a vision to become a top international leader in training residents and surgical fellows, specialist nurses and occupational therapists in the areas of joint replacement, sport medicine and complex spine and trauma care.
To help achieve this vision, a donor-funded Orthopaedic Care Teaching Room was created at University Hospital (UH) where trainees can hone their skills in a modern, dedicated space.
The space once consisted of a 40-year-old conference room and an under-utilized staff locker room. By combining the rooms, an additional 12 feet in space was created in order to fit as many as 28 trainees in the lecture seats.
The new room, completed in April 2018, is equipped with the latest audiovisual technology to provide access to the Ontario Telemedicine Network for information sharing across institutions and to view and discuss detailed surgeries, x-rays and more.
It is also a space that will facilitate simulation education, which allows new surgeons to learn surgical tasks in a safe, controlled setting. Surgeons practice using physical models such as simulated bones and joints, along with virtual reality, to recreate orthopaedic surgeries and build their skills before operating on real patients. They’re able to perform a wide range of procedures before ever ‘scrubbing in’ to the OR.
LHSF would like to thank the many generous individuals and businesses who gave to the Orthopaedic Care Teaching Room to facilitate its construction. Dr. Robert Bourne, retired orthopaedic surgeon at LHSC and long-time hospital supporter, donated more than $100,000 to the Teaching Room.
“High-quality medical education is the foundation for progress – training our future doctors to provide exemplary care, to teach and to innovate,” Dr. Bourne says. “To fulfill this mandate, state-of-the-art teaching facilities are essential to provide an optimal learning environment. It is an honour to have played a small role in making this new orthopaedic teaching room a reality.”
John MacFarlane, LHSF President & CEO, Dr. Steven MacDonald, Chair/Chief, Orthopaedic Surgery,
Dr. Robert Bourne, Mrs. Donna Bourne and Dr. James Howard, Orthopaedic Surgeon