Good morning everyone, good morning esteemed panel members, good morning colleagues, my name is Lorraine Bourne, I am the Programme Chair of the Bachelor of Science in Psychology in DCU and it is my pleasure this morning to present on our staff identity and learning plan and I will present on behalf of our team with our colleague Dr. Marklin, Director of Teaching and Learning Enhancement at DCU. So what is D-STEP? Undergraduate Psychology Training, so pre-professional training, the four-year cycle degree in DCU began in 2010 and as part of our professional accreditation by the Psychological Society of Ireland, we have identified a core pillar within our training, research literacy, the capstone of our undergraduate training. So we are currently accredited by our Psychological Society of Ireland partners and in 2018 we will continue through the process of re-accreditation. So through our annual programmatic reviews and right now going through our actual, our first programmatic review, we have identified key areas for our staff, our psychology unit in identifying where we are positioned and our future, our sustainable learning goals. So the why, D-STEP, what is it about? So we have identified in order to address, based on evidence, enhancement, motivation, adaptive learning, we have identified serious gamified principles as core to curriculum redesign and assessment in our undergraduate program and we have identified as our staff unit key areas in terms of enhancing digital capacity and our ability to undergo curriculum redesign and assessment in a peer supported environment as key as core areas in our staff development, our learning plan. So who is our team? In terms of identifying our staff learning, we have looked at key pillars. So under curriculum redesign, myself and our chair of psychology, Professor Theresa Burke will be internal leads on the team. In terms of peer supported learning, so working very closely with our volunteer students and our psychology students within the unit, Dr. Sinead Smith, expert in behavior analysis will lead out in this. In terms of content, digital content development, so the evidence base of our staff learning and also the products of our learning activities, Mr. Project Boiland senior IT consultant, psychology discipline specific within our unit will lead out with our partners. And in terms of assessment, Dr. Kay Moncel, so senior lecturer in the Institute of Education, a center of excellence in research and teaching and education in DCU will lead out on that pillar, supported by our director of teaching and learning. So our core team is made up of internal leads in identifying our identity as psychology staff positioned uniquely in the School of Nursing and Human Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Health in DCU. So we have strong internal as well as external collaborative links. So we've identified a set of advisors to advise on our staff identification and learning plans. So at an international level, Arizona State University is our partner and director of teaching and learning enhancement will form part of the advisory group on assessment, curriculum redesign and digital content development. In terms of our UK collaborative partners in the University of Sussex again, director of teaching and learning, they will work closely with our leads in terms of staff development. And of course, our national partners in terms of advising on peer supported learning in GMIT and also in Menuth University. Our partners in Waterford Institute of Technology will advise on gamification. So our independent reviewers are separate at international level, Arizona State, so head of psychology unit there and national, our external examiner to the program will independently review the different phases of our staff development plan. So what is our plan? We will address this plan at two time points. I will address it and Mark will address it later when we look at how our project demonstrates impacts along the cycle. So we have broken down our plan, so a two-year plan, in four phases and that's based on the evidence-based reflective cycle under the CPD framework. So our first phase is conducting a learning needs analysis for our psychology unit. So within the School of Nursing and Human Sciences and also with our internal partners in the business school, the Institute of Education and Schools of Human Performance. So part of that is identifying our staff needs analysis, working through development of the learning plan, evidencing that learning plan, and then reflecting on our future learning goals or sustainability goals. So I will now hand over to Mark who will talk through this plan in more detail and how we meet the impact factors. Okay, unfortunately I don't have one for everyone in the audience, but we do have one for the panel to talk through the plan, but I will make a soft copy available if anybody is interested. So what we have to do, for criteria two, we were asked how we align with the framework, how we have clarity and coherence and indeed our student perspective and our institutional strategies. So that will cover the next set or the next section of the presentations. The aims of the frameworks, and I will just read these out, the aims of the framework to empower staff to create, discover and engage in meaningful professional development. Our plan does that. To encourage staff in pure dialogue, our plan does that. Our structure of our teaching groups, our self-reflections to allow them to assist and reflect and plan and contribute to their discipline. Our plan has factors for all of that. And of course, and probably most importantly, particularly from Cat's point of view, as you mentioned there, to contribute to the student learning experience. Our plan factors in that because it very much involves the students. Looking across the various different domains, and we'll break these down now in a second, the top three are catered for in the teaching groups that we'll establish. The staff portfolios also capture in one, two and indeed three, we're going to be doing some pure dialogue. Our professional skills come in for our international advisory panel, our national and international advisory panel, where we're bringing in both discipline experts and also teaching and learning experts to assist us, assist our own development. And of course, we're learning from one another as well. It is a two-way conversation. To show further alignment, what we decided to do was actually take, and this is just one example, and I do appreciate it, it's a bit small to see at the back, but this is the domain, the third domain, professional communication and dialogue. And we took each of the different major elements of our plan. So our teaching groups, our curriculum redesign, our assessment and feedback, and our peer-assisted learning staff portfolios, developing content, and indeed our dissemination and evaluation. And we mapped our touch points to the framework based on those activities. Now that's just one of them and I do appreciate that it's difficult to see, but we took each one of them, there was over 30 different elements as the people in the formal know, and we said, right, well, we have 10 direct touch points from our project evaluation, or 16 from our curriculum design, sort of stuff. So we are tightly linked to the framework. If we're looking at our strategic clarity and coherence, so looking at the plan itself, you will be able to see, and I addressed this to the panel, but you will be able to see that we have integrated evaluation throughout the project, and that's important. We didn't want to learn at the very end, it's a two-year project, we didn't want to learn at the very end, we wanted to learn as we were going along. And you will see that there's key touch points, and what we have down is impacts and deliverables. There's key touch points with students and with staff, so we're making sure that students are involved from the onset and staff are learning from one another as we go along. And the whole idea is that this project, the outputs from this, we're developing staff through this, that it goes beyond the lifetime of the project, that it makes it in a sustainable way. When we're training up with the help of Patrick and indeed other colleagues, training them up on how to create a staff content, online content, or flipping the classroom, that doesn't just limit itself to these modules and these core pillar modules that we're talking about, they take that knowledge and implement it in the rest of the programs. When they build relationships with Sussex and Arizona State University and Galway Mayo, that goes beyond the lifetime of this project. We used existing data, as Lorraine alluded to at the start, our programmatic reviews, also Izzy and our student survey of teaching to identify this as an area that we need to concentrate on. So we don't offer supply-led training from the Teaching Enhancement Unit, we offer demand-led training. And this was demanded based on the data that we have, building on the expertise that we have, the peer-assisted learning, the curriculum design, building on that, recognising our gaps and hopefully using the forum to facilitate our development as we go along. I'd like to spend a bit of time on student perspective, because the student voice is critical for us. Having the student's input into it is so important and that's why we started with our surveys of teaching. That's why we started with the Izzy's and so on, was to get them involved from the very start. And if I broke it down into before, during and after, well, very much the student voice is there from the onset, from these forums, from these feedback, from the review panels that we've created. Student participation, and I'll point directly to Sinead's contribution, which is in the peer-assisted learning. We are involving the students in their learning and research tells us involving the students in it, making a participatory, increases engagement, increases, in our case, what we hope is our attention and the success rates within our courses. So we involved them straight from the get-go and you will see in the plan that we have evaluations and test beds and pilots, even during the summer, will be piling it out to content with our students, just to test it out before we release it to the rest of the students. And by building in all of those touch points, by involving the students from the onset and training us, developing us on how to change our curriculum to do that, we will actually be building the graduate attributes, our software skills, the communication skills, the leadership skills. And this then will work as a template for us when we are developing other programs, training other staff. These will be the shining light of DCU, as far as I'm concerned, if we can get this project up and running. And overall, everything we do will be actually developing not just the digital capacity of the students, because when we implement gamification into it, when we implement a more blended learning into it, because of all the training the staff are going to undergo, the students are going to be engaged in improving digital literacy skills, but also sort of staff. And again, I go back to the point, they're going to bring this beyond the lifetime of this project. Very quickly, talking about the strategic alignment, well, about our university plan and our teaching and learning plan highlights five different elements, five different elements directly relevant to this project, professional development of our staff. It is something we have said in stone we are going to do. And this project lives up to that. Student-centred approaches, the same again. Innovation and teaching. Two minutes, great stuff. Innovation and teaching. STEM education. We pride ourselves in being leaders in STEM education and increasing the digital capacity of our staff and students. Our project meets all of that. In terms of impact, we originally looked at the Cool Bear framework, and this is what we submitted to go in there. But obviously, following the submission deadline, the forum shared what is the impact framework that they want to do. So we're not being fickle and swapping to it, but we think it's best to use what they form supply. And we supplied it in these four categories. So you will have noted from the onset in the very first slide, we have a website domain bot, and we have the Twitter handle already boxed off if we are successful in getting it. But we also have internal avenues to promote it, as well as external to all of our partners, teaching and learning committees, project groups, student focus groups, all sorts of different bits and pieces. And this ties very nicely into the dialogue and discourse. Again, if you look at our advisors and our reviewers, our external examiner for this program is one of our advisors. So when they see the impact, hopefully touch wood, when they see the impact that this program will do, they can influence the program going forward, and hopefully influence their own programs internally within their own organization. The teaching and learning practices, it goes without saying we're going to be changing those. And what I would see from my experience with similar programs is students want one to go back. They don't want to go back to the old way, so inevitably our teaching and learning practices are impacted on. And as I say, when Theresa goes training for this module, she's going to take that into all the other programs she works with. And psychology is taught across the disciplines in DCU, and indeed it's taught across the entire sector. So because of the openness of this project, we're more than willing and hopefully will generate loads of partners to change teaching and learning practices throughout. The same principles apply for the staff teams. I'll finish up now because it's a very subtle sign. I'll finish up now by saying that the project involves developing staff. That's what it's about. Consequences will be enhancing one program, but I would see by developing staff to this project, we will be improving all of our programs in a sustainable and impactful way. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.


Well, the International Court of Justice made a very important landmark ruling, provisional measures on behalf of the government of South Africa, which had brought a case to the Hague, a dispute that South Africa had with the government of Israel. South Africa alleged in its 84-page submission that the government of Israel was conducting a genocide against the people of Palestine. That was the contention in the document put forward by the South Africans. The Israelis responded saying there's no genocide, Hamas is to blame for whatever atrocities there are. Well, the court has now spoken, these are provisional measures. This is not a judgment based on a trial. In these provisional measures, the court has said that there is plausible evidence of genocide. That is sufficient to say that they have stood with the South African brief. They provided a 29-page response to both South Africa and to Israel. Key number one, there is plausible genocide. This is very important. Number two, article 78 or paragraph 78 of the 29-page declaration calls upon the government of Israel. This is very important to pay attention to. In this order, calls upon Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of article two of this convention, which is the 1948 genocide convention, in particular, killing members of the group, causing serious bodily harm or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. And number four, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. In other words, if you read this carefully, paragraph 78, it is calling upon the government of Israel to secede all hostilities against the Palestinians. In other words, without using the phrase secession of hostilities, without using the word ceasefire, what the International Court of Justice is now sent to the UN Security Council to enforce is a demand that Israel plausibly committing genocide against the Palestinians sees hostilities now. That is indeed what they have called for. Number of the judges, the 15 regular judges, the Israeli judge and the South African judge, a number of these judges have made their own statements into the record in the court. Judge Xu from China, very important statement. Judge Xu used to be the vice president of the court. Her statement, very interesting. The fourth paragraph of her statement says that over 60 years ago, the governments of Ethiopia and Liberia instituted legal proceedings against South Africa for its breach of the mandatory pass in Southwest Africa. This is regarding today's Namibia. So Ethiopia and Liberia said, Judge Xu came into the court and said, listen, you are violating the mandatory powers given you in Southwest Africa today's Namibia. And then Judge Xu said the court rejected the standing of those two applicants for lack of legal interest in the case. In other words, at that time, 60 years ago, the International Court of Justice closed the doors on Liberia and Ethiopia saying, you don't have any room here to make a claim against South Africa. There is no legal interest in the case. Then Judge Xu writes, this denial of justice gave rise to strong indignation of the member states of the United Nations against the court, severely tarnishing its reputation. It's a very important memory that Judge Xu brings into the discussion. What she has essentially said by writing this is that now the court is not going to shut the door on South Africa's claim against Israel saying that there is no legal interest in the case. Indeed, the opposite. There is legal interest in the case and the legal finding from the International Court of Justice's plausibility of genocide number one and all acts leading to genocide must be suspended. This 29-page judgment now goes to the UN Security Council for enforcement. Let's see what happens, but Prashant, as I said, 15 permanent judges all appointed by the UN Security Council plus because there are plaintiffs in the case Israel and plus because there are claimants in the case South Africa, 17 judges, a number of them wrote their own findings into the record. One of them was the judge from India, Mr. Bandari has had a quite distinguished career in the Indian bar. Here he is sitting at the International Court of Justice. His piling indicates why there might have been some hesitation in the final 29-page document. Take us through a little bit, Prashant, what Judge Bandari said. Right, Vijay, Dalveer Bandari's statement is quite interesting, multiple reasons. One, of course, the fact that he, the last point in his statement is the most interesting one where he actually calls for an immediate ceasefire. And it's something that the court as a whole has not called for, of course, and some commentators have pointed it out. But nonetheless, in his case, there is a definite call for an immediate ceasefire. And the exact words basically being that all participants in the conflict must ensure that all fighting in hostilities come to an immediate halt. And the remaining hostages also released forthwith, very important to note that. Also his other statement being the fact that, you know, what facts have been placed before the court right now are not essential to sort of make a final conclusion. That this is a trial process that's still going on, it'll take some time. But nonetheless, the facts that are presented before the court lead him to make that conclusion, which really is an interesting point to make. And I think it also sort of brings into question the larger issue that is there, which is that there's a certain hypocrisy, especially among Western countries, among countries of the global North, where time and again they talk about the ceasefire in very loaded terms. For instance, we have David Cameron visiting, UK's foreign secretary, David Cameron actually visiting the region where he talks about an eventual ceasefire. But an eventual ceasefire, what he means is basically exactly what Israel means. He means that Hamas has to be somehow overthrown, some kind of a reconstituted Palestinian authority must be placed back in place in Gaza. And that is, according to him, what constitutes an eventual ceasefire. So there is a clear line that is drawn between what people are calling for in terms of a halt in fighting and this kind of hypocritical statements of what an eventual ceasefire is, an eventual halt is. So I think it's an interesting statement that it makes. But overall, I think also if you look at the court's overall statement, the overall proceeding, the final judgment that has come out, two things that are very important to note. I think one is that it completely rubbish, completely demolishes Israel's claim that the ICJ has no right to rule on this, I think which is a very important point to note and that is if you looked at the earlier proceedings, there was from South Africa's side, from the side of the international community, there was a very strong push about some of these arguments in Israel's response was to almost nonchalantly say that this is not something for the ICJ to rule on, which by definition means that this is not something for the international community to be involved in. This is our issue. We are fighting in self-defense, et cetera, et cetera. And I think that argument has been completely torn into shreds by the ICJ when it has said that it has jurisdiction. And the other thing I think many commentators are pointing out is that this kind of poses a question before many countries. And I think we'll come to that next regarding what they need to do to sort of prevent because in some senses, many countries, all countries across the world are put to notice by this kind of a judgment because clearly the ICJ has said that this is a matter to be considered. We'll of course decide on it later, but we are not dismissing the case on the grounds Israel has said, which is that this is purely our internal matter. This is purely a matter of our self-defense. So I think while the court may not have ordered a full immediate ceasefire as South Africa may have wanted, the way it is framed as judgment automatically makes it clear that Israel's PR mechanism all these months, which has been completely supported by the United States, by the United Kingdom, so many of the Western allies, that this is a war in self-defense. This is an internal matter. This is a fight against terrorism. All that has been completely blown into pieces. And I think that probably is the biggest take away from this judgment because those arguments really no longer stand. Not only do they no longer stand, but your statement about putting other governments on notice very important. Firstly, if I were Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Isaac Herzog and others, even if not Ben Guir, I would worry because some judge somewhere might apply universal jurisdiction and call for the arrest. Or indeed, if there is sufficient pressure now down the road at the International Criminal Court, the special prosecutor there, unlikely the delay might frame warrants for the individuals who are conducting the genocide. Once the genocide trigger has been pulled, any number of things could happen. And I think sanctions against individuals, arrest warrants for them, all on the table, Zoe, will other countries now move? And how have they reacted to this judgment? Well, I'll say first that the reaction from Israeli officials has been kind of complete rejection of the findings, you know, really holding on very tightly to this idea of Israel's right to self-defense, as Prashant mentioned, which has essentially been destroyed by these court findings and by a South Africa's case. You know, Itamar Ben Gavir, who's famously the far right Minister of Security that even before October 7th had been implementing atrocious policies to violate, especially Palestinian prisoners, human rights. And he treated Haik Shmig. So I think there is, on one hand, the sense of international law still doesn't apply to us. We're above the law. We will do what we want. But I think that, you know, on the other hand, they're of course rejecting this ruling because they know that it will have implications. And as you mentioned, you know, ruling this, you know, this ruling that essentially classifies it as genocide will open the door for more ICC possibilities. We already know many countries have referred the case, the ICC. This will definitely have a snowball effect. It will give more momentum behind these cases. We've seen world leaders across the world whose countries actually endorsed South Africa's case and publicly supported it, such as Colombia. As soon as the ruling came out, the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, had an extremely long tweet saying that this is a triumph of humanity. So I think that, you know, in a sense, many people said that not only was Israel on trial, but as you mentioned before, really, it's the ICJ and these international instruments and that the people of the global South also don't want to see this instrument just kind of destroyed by imperialism and by their ability to influence and to kind of bypass any sort of sense of legal accountability and responsibility. So, you know, Naledi Pandor said that she had actually traveled herself. The foreign minister of South Africa had also gone to the Hague to hear this results announced. She said that she was quite pleased by the results and this was, of course, justice being done. She too noted that the lack of the clear definition of calling for ceasefire was lamentable, but that actually in implementing the provisional measures that are outlined and the ones that were called for by the court, there has to be a cessation of hostilities. They actually cannot implement those provisional measures and continue to carry out the genocide they're carrying out. So I think that's really important to note. And again, I think that people are definitely breathing a sigh of relief. There is, again, especially with the counterbalance of the ICC being this essentially useless as it's seen by many, especially in the case of Palestine and Israel, given the prosecutor, you know, his complete lack of, you know, remorse and accountability to the Palestinian people. But I think this is another boost in saying, okay, people, there can be justice in that the fact that this case was laid out for the entire world to hear and to see and the detail with which South Africa laid out all of these different crimes from small remarks to, you know, radio presenters, television presenters, all these different things that in essence actually constitute this entire sphere and this entire kind of body of work of what a genocide is. It's not just the bombing. It's not just one person statement. It's all of these different things that they were able to actually capture in their case. So again, it is, I think many people are seeing this as a very important symbolic victory and hopefully an effective one. I think special prosecutor Karim Khan at the International Criminal Court will have to read this judgment very, very carefully, not to be trifled with. International Court of Justice has come in and said, there is plausible evidence of genocide conducted by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people. I think that is itself a landmark ruling. Then as I said, paragraph 78 comes the measures that they call for all very important, including everything that amounts to a cessation of hostilities. Let's see how the UN Security Council reacts.


Okay, and we're live again for the last time in the hangout series Proceeding the worldwide web consortium blockchain workshop really just to say standby and We'll in just two days now right and tomorrow then I think you'll be jumping on a plane Doug Shepherds has already landed in Boston It's coming So I think we were just thinking well, we had some possible topics It seems like the best thing to do at this point is really let's not focus. Let's focus the conversation at the event and You know a den was just suggesting, you know the best thing to do at this point It's like read the papers kind of you know get your game together Come ready to play, you know come to the workshop and Let's identify some possible standards. Yeah, absolutely. I think there's there's plenty there You know a lot of discussions going on internally. I'm sure at every company You know, maybe one good thing to do is double-check with any Superiors or people inside your organizations for what you can can't say Hopefully we can get as much content out there as possible without you know violating anyone's Anyone's strategic plans or anything they may have around that but obviously yeah So so make sure you're clear and then try and bring as much information as you can to it here here Yeah, and then we'll have a great open forum for to talk about the stuff we can talk about and see see what develops I think we have every opportunity for lightning to strike So look forward to seeing you in person here at the media lab Dan It says wish you safe travels and we'll I guess, you know kind of sweep up here and start, you know getting everything together Great. Awesome. Okay. Great. So till then. See you soon


Drama and chaos as man resurrect a week after his funeral. Drama and chaos as man resurrect a week after his funeral. Lovemore Chatindo was last seen on Christmas day last year and everyone was convinced that he had been murdered for ritual purposes. A man from Nyanga, Manacaland province, who had been presumed passed away by his family reappeared almost a week later. A search party failed to find Chatindo and his friend and traditional healer, Manyanga Sanianga, claimed that he had seen Chatindo in his dreams. Sanianga said Chatindo had pleaded to be rescued as he was in pain, with four leaders of blood having been drawn from his body. The traditional healer claimed that Chatindo had passed away at the hands of a local businessman, Kasi Semenyukha, who had reportedly used his blood for ritual purposes. However, Chatindo resurfaced after New Year looking pale and hardly recalling what transpired on the day of his disappearance. He was taken to hospital after he was picked up by good Samaritans in Miodoko, about 300 kilometers from his home. Doctors diagnosed that Chatindo had lost a lot of blood and that he needed an urgent blood transfusion. Chatindo said he does not remember what happened during the six days he was missing. He said, I do not remember those six days. I only remember falling asleep at Semenyukha's tuck shop. When I woke up, a donkey was naing at me in Miodoko. I was in a gully and I do not know what happened for me to get there. Semenyukha has denied involvement in Chatindo's disappearance and he has since approached Chief Sonyama's court for redress. Meanwhile, the traditional healer made a U-turn to exonerate Semenyukha, saying he never dreamt about that. Chief Sonyama ordered the parties to consult a traditional healer to unravel the mystery.


beyond 20 years, it is depends on again the patient usage. So, complex trauma involves like all the fractures around the joints which involves a more anatomical reductions which we do very regularly and quite oftenly and which is very outcome results are very good what we do in our hospital and the patient is mobilized within the time. Thank you. Namaste. I am Dr. Malinath working as a senior consultant in Manipal Hospital in the department of orthopedics joint replacement and arthroscopy. I am specialized in treatment of arthritis and sports medicine. In arthritis in order patients we treat them first with the conservative methods, non-surgical methods. If it fails then we do a minimally immunized surgeries for the knee and hip, minimally immunized hip replacement, minimally immunized knee replacement and in anger patients, the patient is very painful, has got a painful joint then we do a reconstructive surgery that is called a realignment surgery where the knee joint is not changed, only it is realigned or reconstructed with a corrective surgery that gives a relief for longer time period without major complications. In sports medicine injuries for knee ligament reconstructions, I fix the ligaments without using a screws nowadays that gives a more stability and it is less expensive to the patient and patient recovery is also very fast. In ankle tendons ruptures, I repair tendons without opening the diseased side that is pathological side without opening I repair it that is called a percutaneous tender repair technique. These are all unique techniques available in Manipal Hospital. We assure you best and good advanced services in our hospital, thank you. Hello, I am Dr. Sushal Shantakumar, I am a consultant shoulder surgeon in Manipal Hospitals and shoulder arthroscopy is one of my expertise. Arthroscopy means looking into a joint, it is derived from arthrose meaning joint and scopy meaning to look.  We then fill it up with water and then visualize the structures inside your joint. The damaged tissues are then repaired using specialized instruments. Some of the common conditions which can be treated with shoulder arthroscopy or impingement syndrome, rotator cuff tears and recurrent dislocation. Impingement is a condition which is caused due to a bony outgrowth or what we refer as a spur from the under surface of the bone called acromion which forms the roof of the shoulder. This bony outgrowth can press on tendons causing inflammation and even cause rotator cuff tears. Fortunately with arthroscopy we can clean up your entire joint, clear the inflammation and then shave the acromials per using a specialized instrument known as burr. In some individuals who are untreated they can develop frank rotator cuff tears. Similarly with arthroscopy we can repair our torn rotator cuff using special sutures known as shoulder anchors. We attach the tone tendon to the bone. These anchors can be made of metal, plastic or even awfully biodegradable materials. These do not need to be removed after the surgery. Recurrent dislocation. Arthroscopy is an option in recurrent dislocations. We can suture the tone ligaments using special arthroscopic anchors and then with a supervised program we can get the patient back on his back resuming his activities as early as possible. One of the biggest advantages of arthroscopy is fast recovery time and minimal trauma to the tissues. Hi I am Dr. Viji Rajan a consultant orthopedic surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. I specialize in knee surgery. I do everything around the knee including both joint replacement surgery as well as keyhole arthroscopic surgery. Today I am going to be talking about arthroscopic surgery pertaining to the knee. This keyhole surgery has changed the way we look at sports related knee injuries. Today we are able to reconstruct every ligament in the knee and can get back to a person to pre-injury level sports activity within 3 to 6 months following surgery. Joint replacement surgery has again undergone a big revolution in the last 10 to 15 years. Today we have newer implants and improved surgical techniques which have improved the life of joint replacement surgery. Despite this we do have a couple of joint replacements who fail after 15 to 20 years and for these patients we have revision knee surgery which is basically redoing the failed primary knee replacement. We can perform this surgery fairly safe and get back to full recovery in 80 to 90 percent of the patients undergoing a second time or a third time redo surgery following a failed primary knee replacement surgery. In addition to this we have newer implants which have improved the quality of life. Many patients who have knee related problems can feel safe to undergo surgery and return back to reasonably good activity as well as pain free function. Thank you very much. Hello I am Dr. Lokesh A.V. I am a consultant orthopedic surgeon at Manipal Hospital's HAL Road, Bangalore. I specialize in joint replacement, shoulder surgery, arthroscopy and pelvis tabular trauma. So, talking about joint replacement we are a premier center doing high numbers of joint replacement surgery using computer navigated cutting edge technologies and we use high end rehabilitation maneuvers and also very good pain management to make your joint replacement as comfortable and as easy as possible. The other specialty which I want to talk about is pelvis tabular trauma. We are one of the top pelvis tabular trauma management centers. It usually is a very common fracture but not so commonly managed all over India and we are one of those centers which we are proud to say that we are actually managing this pelvis tabular trauma. All facets of pelvis tabular trauma like revision surgeries, old fractures, new fractures and we have seen that they are all mismanaged in many centers worldwide because of lack of knowledge and we are a high volume center for pelvis tabular trauma. Thank you. My other area of interest is shoulder surgery. We deal with all aspects of shoulder problems from arthroscopy to arthroplasty, a joint replacement in trauma management. We actually are trained internationally to manage shoulder problems and from simple conservative physiotherapy management to injections to surgeries we do everything about shoulders. Thank you.