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| AOA-ABC Traveling Fellowship - History | In 1948, Dr. Robert I. Harris of Toronto, Canada, developed the concept of the American, British and Canadian Traveling Fellowship during his year as president of the American Orthopaedic Association. The original goal of the tour was to allow British orthopaedic surgeons to visit centers in North America in a time of post-World War II difficulties.
The initial group from Great Britain consisted of 13 orthopaedic surgeons.
The following year,15 orthopaedic surgeons from the US and Canada visited Great Britain, and the tradition has continued in the same alternating fashion – inviting South Africa to the tour in 1983 and Australia and New Zealand in 1985.
The 2007 tour was the 56th exchange with seven orthopaedic surgeons from North America traveling to Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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