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Journal Club 2026/27
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Join our monthly national Journal Club & Orthopaedic Specialty Showcase, created for medical students and foundation doctors in collaboration with The Bone & Joint Journal.
Why attend?
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Stay up to date with key new findings in orthopaedics and trauma care.
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Learn how to search for high-quality research and evidence that informs real-world surgical and clinical practice.
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Build confidence in critically appraising orthopaedic literature and landmark papers.
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Gain structured exposure to the breadth of orthopaedic subspecialties, including trauma, paediatrics, hip, knee, spine, upper limb, oncology, and more!
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Explore opportunities in academic surgery, applied clinical research, audits, and specialty-led projects.
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Present online to a national audience, enhancing your academic portfolio.
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Discover conferences, prizes, bursaries, and career-building opportunities offered by leading orthopaedic societies.
An ideal opportunity to build your research, surgical, and specialty knowledge while exploring the full landscape of orthopaedics early in your career.
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Session 1 Masterclass in Research Methods
Thursday 21st May
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Professor Andrew Duckworth
Andrew Duckworth is Professor of Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University of Edinburgh and is Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His undergraduate and postgraduate study was undertaken at the University of Edinburgh, with the award of his PhD in 2016. Following completion of his training in Edinburgh, he was an Upper Limb Fellow at the Wrightington Upper Limb Unit.
Andrew’s clinical and research interests are in trauma and upper limb surgery, with a focus on injuries around the elbow, wrist and hand. His current research includes multi-centre clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma, large data studies and the efficacy of patient reported outcome measures. He is the Co-CI for the NIHR funded FOREST and MOTION trials and is a co-app and PI on several other NIHR funded clinical trials. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Bone and Joint Journal (BJJ), Bone and Joint Research (BJR), Bone & Joint360 and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT). He is also on the Research Committees of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) and the Orthopaedic Trauma Society (OTS). He is a co-director of the world-renowned Edinburgh International Trauma Symposium and is a member of the Edinburgh Sports Medicine Research Network and the UKCCIIS IOC Research Centre of Excellence.
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Professor Dan Perry
Dan Perry is NIHR Research Professor and Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. He is BOA Specialty Lead for Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinical Trials, Specialty Editor for the Bone & Joint Journal, Professor at the University of Liverpool, and Honorary Professor at the University of Oxford.
He leads a major national portfolio of multicentre randomised trials aimed at improving the evidence base for children’s trauma and orthopaedic surgery, including FORCE, SCIENCE, CRAFFT, Big BOSS, PIC Bone, ODD SOCKS, Op Non-STOP, BASIS, ToTs and PREPARE, with further platform studies in development. Together, these studies form one of the largest coordinated orthopaedic trial portfolios internationally.
This work is already shaping routine care, national policy and clinical pathways across the UK, demonstrating that large, pragmatic surgical trials in children can be delivered successfully and can change practice. His research brings together clinicians, methodologists, patients and families across the BOA, BSCOS, PERUKI and NIHR networks, alongside growing international partnerships.
His wider interests include trials embedded in routine care, digital and AI-enabled research infrastructure, and accelerating the translation of robust evidence into everyday clinical practice.
Professor Matthew Costa
Matthew Costa PhD, FRCS, FMedSci. Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal trauma interventions. He is Lead Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). His work has been cited widely and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Matt is the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Trauma and Emergency Care and an NIHR Senior Investigator.
Matt is past President of the UK Orthopaedic Trauma Society and past President of the Global Fragility Fracture Network.
