COUR

“Tips and Creative Solutions of the Trade”, an international forum in which to exchange collective insights, innovations, and approaches to problems encountered in our work in resource-poor environments. The vision is to have a resource that allows entry, retrieval and dissemination of creative solutions to commonly encountered problems, regardless of one’s location in the world. This project will be partnered with HELP (Health Education using Low-cost Publications at www.global-help.org), which since 2003 has provided free health-care information to developing countries and is committed to making medical knowledge accessible worldwide. We ask that interested POSNA members and other healthcare workers in the international community participate. There are several examples of tips that have been written by members currently on the COUR website. Contributors will receive acknowledgment of their work and should be submitted on a Word document, to posna@aaos.org, maximum of two pages text (1000 words), including:

• Title

• Name, institution, contact information

• Brief introduction stating the problem

• Discuss solution to the problem-Give specifics about resources, materials, how to find materials, costs, alternatives, benefits and risks.

• Key lesson learned.

• Include up to three key references

• Include several key images with legends