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Product Training for Zimmer South Africa
Zimmer Head Office, 02 July 08 – 18 July 08
As part of its on going professional training Zimmer South Africa put a
number of new recruits and others through an in-depth, product training
programme.
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Day 1 – General Orthopeadics, Lecturer: Hein De Klerk,
Subjects covered: General Anatomy, Templating, Positioning, Materials,
General Tribology, OSP Products, Overview on cemented and uncemented
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Day 2 – Uncemented Hip Stems, Lecturer, Kenny Govender,
Subjects: CLS – Theory, CLS – Workshop, Alloclassic – Theory, Alloclassic
– Workshop.
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Day 3 – Revision Hips, Lecturer, Kenny Govender,
Subjects: Revitan – Theory, Cable Ready – Theory, Wagner –
Theory, Workshop.
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Day 4 – Cemented Hip Stems, Lecturer, Kenny Govender,
Subjects: Test, MS 30 – Theory, MS 30 – Workshop, CPT – Theory, CPT –
Workshop
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Day 5 – Uncemented Cups and Resurfacing, Lecturer:
Kenny Govender. Subjects: Test, Allofit – Theory, Cemented
cups – Theory, Durom – Theory, Workshop
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Day 6 – Trabecular Metal,Lecturer: Hein De Klerk.
Subjects: Test, TMT – Theory, TMT Workshop.
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Day 7 & 8 – Primary Knees, Lecturer: Craig Graydon.
Subjects: Test, Innex Primary – Theory, Innex Primary Workshop, Nexgen
Primary – Theory, Nexgen Primary Workshop
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Day 9 & 10 – Revision Knees, Lecturer: Craig
Graydon. Subjects: Test, InnexSC – Theory, InnexSC Workshop,
Nexgen LCCK – Theory, Nexgen LCCK Workshop
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Day 11 – Upper Extremities, Lecturer: Hein De Klerk.
Subjects: Test, Extremities – Theory, Extremities Workshop
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Day 12 & 13 Role play exercises
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Outcomes
Proficiency tests were carried out through the programme. The overall score
for all course components and all participants was 88%. Results for
individual course components are shown in the graph below.
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Top student
Congratulations to Jonathan Olivier, the top student scoring an amazing 97%
across all the proficiency tests. Well done!
