CSOS Warwick
The Combined Services Orthopaedic Society Conference 2025 was held at Warwick School.
This two day conference allowed trainees to present their work and had some fantastic guest speakers discussing geopolitics and updates in various fields of medicine. This conference continued with concession tickets for medical students, foundation doctors and GDMOs, which allowed for fantastic engagement from non-trainees. Having the conference at Warwick school allowed for incredible defence engagement with cadets at the school. A particular highlight was the surgical simulation competition where students created low cost simulation aids for training.
The CSOS dinner was held at Warwick Castle and had a fantastic turnout.
Prizes were awarded for the best presentations:
The Peter Templeton Prize for the best presentation was awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Louise McMenemy RN for her presentation entitled “Biomechanical assessment of bone loss in transfemoral and knee disarticulation amputees”
The Philip Fulford Prize for the best quick-fire presentation was awarded to Major Kirsty Milne for her presentation entitled “Improving our trainees’ experience of time out of training for parental leave”
The Best Poster Prize was awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Stef Capello for his poster entitled “Improving The Management Of Buckle Fractures At A District General Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project Based On Evidence From The FORCE Trial”
The Mike McErlain Travelling Fellowship was awarded to Major Harry Claireaux who will utilise this to perform defence engagement in the United States, improve research opportunities and to attend SOMOS.
