Mark your calendars for the 2025 Annual Leadership Meeting in Minneapolis, taking place from June 2-7, 2025. This highly anticipated event will present brand-new symposia, engaging networking opportunities, and essential educational sessions designed to benefit surgeons at every stage of their careers.

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Being a Fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association (FAOA) signifies leadership, achievement, and recognition for exceptional accomplishments across all subspecialties and practice settings within the profession. More than 1800 members have completed the rigorous membership process to earn this designation.

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Leadership Development

Leadership Development

Developing leaders is at the core of AOA’s mission. AOA leadership programming is valuable to any orthopaedic surgeon seeking to gain new skills or further enhance existing knowledge.

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Critical Issues

Critical Issues

AOA addresses stimulating and controversial issues impacting the orthopaedic profession. By assembling leaders across all subspecialities, the AOA tackles the most relevant topics to provide improved musculoskeletal care.

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Graduate Medical Education

Graduate Medical Education

AOA’s Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors (CORD) program provides a forum for orthopaedic educators to exchange best practices and ideas. CORD affiliates collaborate to advance resident and fellow education.

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Emerging Leaders Program
Emerging Leaders Program

This continuum of learning for developing orthopaedic leaders in their 5th year of residency through their 10th year of clinical practice provides rising orthopaedists, newly in practice, a peer network poised to impact the specialty now and in the future.

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CORD Program
CORD Program

Facilitating excellence in musculoskeletal graduate medical education, CORD leads the advancement of best practices by providing a forum to exchange ideas and search for solutions to major challenges

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Own the Bone Program
Own the Bone Program

This program engages the orthopaedic community to close the 82% osteoporosis treatment gap and encourage the bone health management of fragility fractures with tools and education to support hospitals, practice groups, and health.

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Grow With Us
Grow With Us

Grow With Us to help power AOA’s existing programs and expanded growth into the future.
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Orthopaedic Residency Information Network
The AOA’s Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors is pleased to announce the Orthopaedic Residency Information Networkâ„¢. This tool is a central repository of information for medical students hoping to match within orthopaedics.
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AOA USC APEX Leadership Certificate Program
Addressing essential leadership development skills, this 10 month learning experience has direct relevance to orthopaedics and issues confronting medicine.
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AOA Podcast Series: Lessons in Orthopaedic Leadership
Drs. Charles Goldfarb and Alexander Aleem host AOA’s Podcast Series covering a wide range of hot topics in orthopaedics.
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