The Pinnacle of Orthopaedic Education
The AAOS Annual Meeting educational program includes a variety of sessions in several formats, ensuring that you can find education that works for you. It includes interactive lectures, courses, and workshops focused on the latest breakthroughs in orthopaedics across all specialties and career stages.
AAOS 2027 Education Formats
Instructional Course Lectures
Comprised of didactic lectures and audience discussion, ICLs represent the tried and true in orthopaedics. ICLs present accepted principles and techniques, evidence-based practices, and often include pearls and pitfalls of procedures.
Case Presentation ICLs are small, roundtable-format sessions where four to eight cases are discussed per course. After each case is presented by the moderator, faculty members facilitate discussion at their tables and aid in formulating a treatment plan. Each table then presents their proposed solution. Finally, the moderator presents the actual treatment and outcomes using evidence-based data, including teaching points and references to support the selected treatment.
Technical Skills ICLs feature a 10-minute video on positioning, approach, and step-by-step technical techniques, followed by a 10-minute discussion of pearls. There are four to five topics per session, and they cover unique procedures (e.g. nail tibia) or break down complex operations into multiple sub-topics.
Panels: Unique Perspectives
AAOS 2027 will include a wide variety of panel sessions bringing together knowledgeable and focused expertise across orthopaedics and the musculoskeletal field.
Designed for topics that challenge convention or introduce novel perspectives, Symposia present cutting-edge, controversial and innovative topics. These are well-balanced and feature a blend of differing styles, techniques and management, as well as a diverse faculty.
In the Innovation Theater, you can watch live demonstrations of innovative products, services, and solutions showcased by medical and technology professionals.
In "The Way I See It…®", you can listen to the faculty's candid opinions on contemporary, controversial and top-of mind issues in orthopaedics. These sessions last approximately one hour.
Papers, Posters, and ePosters
AAOS 2027 also offers Papers, Posters, and ePosters, and you can select your preferred format.
Papers are live, four-minute podium presentations accompanied by a slide deck.
Posters are physical posters that will be displayed during the meeting. Presenters stand with their posters during designated times to participate in discussion with attendees. These posters are posted on 45- by 45-inch tackboard for browsing at any time, and all posters are also available in an ePoster version.
ePosters will be displayed at ePoster digital screen stations at AAOS 2027, as well as online. Attendees will be able to search for and view ePosters at their leisure, even after the meeting is over.
Interactive and Multimedia Sessions
The OrthoDome® presents specialty-specific sessions on innovative surgical techniques on a screen that's larger than life. Videos are narrated live by presenters and followed by Q&A.
In the Innovation Theater, you'll see cutting-edge surgical techniques, medical devices, digital health, and patient care tools, all through dynamic presentations and live demonstrations led by industry leaders and innovators. Topics range from advocacy and research updates to mentoring.
In the Orthopaedic Video Theater, you can watch high-quality, peer-reviewed surgical technique videos, many with CME!
Career development courses are available to help you advance or refine your career with curriculum that includes leadership, teaching, communication, research, education, mentoring, and marketing.
You can Ask an Expert questions about your patient case challenges and get expert diagnoses and recommendations, while Showdowns® let you watch surgeons debate topics and techniques; and afterward, YOU determine who wins the debate!
Popular Sessions from the Exhibit Hall
Experience OrthoDome
OrthoDome is an AAOS Annual Meeting experience that offers an immersive and comfortable video theater room showcasing orthopaedic surgical techniques and devices in 4K resolution video, narrated live by the experts.
Ask an Expert: Real Answers. Real Impact.
Get direct, real-world guidance from the leading minds in orthopaedics—right on the Exhibit Hall floor. These interactive sessions offer personalized, practical advice on the challenges you face every day.
Innovation Theater: Where Ideas Take the Stage
Explore cutting-edge solutions in surgical techniques, medical devices, digital health, and patient care tools, all through dynamic presentations and live demonstrations led by industry leaders and innovators.
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Medical Student Program
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Orthopaedic Video Theater
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Get the Best of AAOS 2026 with OnDemand
Whether you made it to the meeting or not, you can still get full access to hundreds of recorded sessions across every subspecialty in orthopaedics and earn up to 100 CME credits.
