Following on from the launch of the ISHA Trainee Membership and Early Career Session at the ISHA 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, a Pre-Conference Early Career Programme aimed at trainees and early-career professionals will take place on Wednesday 1 October 2025.

This programme, delivered by experienced ISHA members, will provide invaluable guidance in a range of aspects, including patient selection, OR setup, management of complications, hip anatomy, clinical decision-making, patient education and psychosocial factors.

Attendance is free of charge for delegates of ISHA 2025, however interested individuals are asked to express their interest on their registration form. To register, click below:

13:00 -13:05   EC0 Welcome

EC1 - Basics in Hip Arthroscopy

13:05 - 13:15   EC1.1 Conditions that can be treated arthroscopically

13:15 - 13:25   EC1.2 Choosing the right patient when starting out in practice

13:25 - 13:40   EC1.3 OR set up and portal placement: You can't start hip arthroscopy before this

13:40 - 13:50   EC1.4 Q&A

EC2 - Starting my journey as a PAO surgeon

13:50 - 14:05   EC2.1 Getting the proper training: fellowship experience. Mentor and mentee’s side of the journey

14:05 - 14:15   EC2.2 Tips and tricks for my first cases: case selection, approach, how to correct

14:15 - 14:25   EC2.3 Management of complications early in the learning curve

14:25 - 14:30   EC2.4 Discussion

EC3 - Hip Anatomy from Open to Arthroscopic

14:30 - 14:40   EC3.1 Back to the lab: A Hip preservation surgeon’s tour of hip and pelvic anatomy

14:40 - 14:48   EC3.2 The anatomy of PAO: Avoiding danger, including in the dysmorphic pelvis

14:48 - 14:56   EC3.3 Supine arthroscopic hip: Outside in access, the course of the iliopsoas, and staying out of danger

14:56 - 15:04   EC3.4 The prone arthroscopic hip – From ischium, to sciatic nerve, and beyond

15:04 - 15:10   EC3.5 Discussion with Q&A

15:10 - 15:30   Refreshment Break 

EC4 - How to establish your hip preservation surgeon practice: an international perspective

15:30 - 15:38   EC4.1 US Perspective

15:38 - 15:46   EC4.2 Australian Perspective

15:46 - 15:54   EC4.3 European Perspective

EC5 - Make it Make Sense: How to translate all the datapoints into clinical decision-making

16:00 - 16:07   EC5.1 Overview of clinically relevant datapoints: History and Clinical Exam

16:07 - 16:13   EC5.2 Overview of clinically relevant datapoints: Imaging

16:13 - 16:20   EC5.3 Overview of clinically relevant datapoints: Advanced Imaging

16:20 - 16:30   EC5.4 What's Important? What's Not?

EC6 - How Do We Measure and Manage Psychosocial Factors and Mental Health Matters in Hip Preservation Care?

16:30 - 16:40   EC6.1 Pain Related Psychological Distress and the Application of the Biopsychosocial Model to the Hip Patient

16:40 - 16:50   EC6.2 Measuring mental health and psychosocial effects on hip preservation surgery outcomes

16:50 - 17:00   EC6.3 Interventions and development of psychological skills in conjunction with hip pain treatment

EC7 - Patient education on hip preservation surgery

17:00 - 17:05   EC7.1 Why is patient education important?

17:05 - 17:15   EC7.2 How to measure it? (comprehension/ readability/ health literacy/ compliance/ adherence/ expectations and satisfaction)

17:15 - 17:20   EC7.3 Best practices on hip preservation education materials based on learnings from major hip centres and societies

17:20 - 17:25   EC7.4 Discussion

EC8 - Closing Remarks

17:25 - 17:30   EC8 Closing Remarks