Modbury Public Hospital

The Discipline of Orthopaedics and Trauma at Modbury Public Hospital is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. There is also supervision of overseas trained doctors in a supernumerary capacity. Fourth year medical students and sixth year medical students are part of the teaching programme.

The postgraduate teaching comprises the training of a Senior Orthopaedic Registrar who is part of advanced surgical training. There is an Upper Limb Research Fellowship, coordinated by Greg Bain at Modbury and the Royal Adelaide Hospital, two Interns and two unaccredited Orthopaedic Registrars.

The consultants have areas of interest which include knee surgery, joint replacement surgery, upper limb surgery and foot and ankle surgery. There is a spinal clinic as well as paediatric clinic run by Mr Bruce Forster. Rob Atkinson is Head of Discipline, Director of Orthopaedics. Linda Ferris, Nancy Cullen, Greg Bain, Bruce Foster and Paddy Sen are currently Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeons.

The Discipline overall is committed to a quality public teaching hospital service to include research, teaching and community service.

Now there is an active research programme led by Greg Bain and Rob Atkinson has some programmes which include the anatomy of the posterior geniculate vessels and blood supply to the posterior cruciate ligament.

The 'Patellar Entry Feature' has been accepted for publication and the 'Shoulder Post Technique for Massive Rotator Cuff Tears' has also been submitted but not yet accepted.

As a Brigadier in the Army Reserve Rob Atkinson have been involved in a successful development of The Centre for Military Medicine and Veterans' Health which is now being signed off with the University of Adelaide, The University of South Queensland and the Menzies School in Darwin.

Rob is a collaborator in the Surrogate Human Research Project which has recently received an award and has become the standard for NATO. A concept paper on the development of Land Tele Robots for Combat Casualty Support was presented in Sydney 2002.