Career Enhancement
AAHKS offers programs to enhance your career in hip and knee surgery, including:
• The Match for Adult Reconstruction and Tumor Fellowships, The American Association of Hip and
Knee Surgeons, The Hip Society, The Knee Society and the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society have
joined to form a Fellowship Match for Adult Reconstruction and Tumor Fellowships. Fourth year
residents are able to submit applications starting in August.
• Annual Resident Arthroplasty Course, AAHKS conducts the Annual Resident Arthroplasty Course that
takes place just before the AAHKS Annual Meeting. AAHKS has specifically created this course for
residents in the R3 year of orthopaedic surgery training.
• Mentor Program, The program is designed to facilitate connections between members for
professional growth, accommodating all members from residents to experienced surgeons on a
variety of issues.
• Online Career Center, Employers can streamline their hiring process with targeted access to the
best arthroplasty surgeons. Find employers hiring in real time while staying informed about job
openings. The career center also offers easy online job management, job activity tracking, and auto
notification.
ADVOCACY
GIVING VOICE TO PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS:
HEALTH POLICY AND ADVOCACY
These are partic ularly challenging times for healthcare providers, requiring our continued
efforts to ensure that the quality and value we bring to patients are not diminished. AAHKS
works to represent the interests of our members and their patients. We devote considerable
resources to the area of health policy, to help safeguard our ability to provide high-quality
services to patients and ensure that legislative and regulatory activities do not result in
interference with patient access to arthroplasty.
Boots on the Ground
This grassroots program is comprised of AAHKS members from all 50 states who
maintain contact with their congressmen, senators and state societies. They stay in close
communication with members in their state, which helps us to favorably shape policy at the
federal and local level.