First modules in 2025

The next training modules in Spine and Hip will be held in Honiara, Solomon Islands from 3-7 March 2025 (Spine) and 8-14 March, 2025 (Hip). PIOA last held a module in Honiara in September 2017, so we are looking forward to returning th the National Referral Hospital (NRH) which was the inaugural training site for the PIOA program and hosted every module from 2013 to 2016.

2017 Hip Course.(From L to R) Dr Vaughan Poutawera (NZ), Dr Silent Tovasia (First Solomon Island orthopaedic surgeon), Dr Hermann Oberli (pioneer of orthopaedic surgery in Solomon Islands (Swiss)), Dr Andy Vane (NZ).

We will have 14 students from 7 countries (Papua New Guinea (5), Solomon Islands(2), Timor Leste (1), Fiji (2), Palau (1), Vanuatu(1) and Samoa(2). Lecturers from Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and the United States (Hawaii) will assist with teaching.