Rolling admission · Istanbul · Delivered in English
Follow how an orthopaedic department assesses the injured knee, decides who needs arthroscopic surgery and plans the return to activity — as a non-sterile observer, on the lists scheduled during your dates.
What you see depends on the department's clinical calendar during your placement; the list below describes the department's usual scope, not a guaranteed programme.
Many knee injuries are managed without surgery. The clinic decision rests on the mechanism of injury, the timing of swelling, mechanical symptoms such as true locking, and giving way during pivoting activity, read together with examination and MRI. A displaced bucket-handle meniscal tear in a locked knee is usually treated promptly; an isolated partial ligament injury, or a degenerative meniscal tear in an older knee, is often managed with structured rehabilitation before any operation is considered. Observers see how the team weighs age, activity level, sporting goals and associated injuries before an arthroscopy is offered — and when the answer is to wait.
Around the meniscus, the central question is whether tissue can be preserved. Tear location relative to the blood supply, tear pattern, the patient's age and the time since injury influence whether a repair is attempted or a partial meniscectomy is preferred, because removing meniscal tissue raises contact pressure on the articular cartilage. After an anterior cruciate ligament rupture, the discussion turns to the demands of the patient's sport, recurrent instability, associated meniscal or collateral injury, graft choice and timing. Arthroscopy has a limited role in the knee with established osteoarthritis, so part of the clinic discussion is recognising who will not benefit from it.
Each case involves orthopaedic surgeons, anaesthetists, theatre nurses and the rehabilitation team, with the MRI report and images informing every step. Observers can follow a knee from the sports injury clinic to theatre, where the arthroscopic view on the monitor makes the intra-articular findings visible from outside the sterile field, and then to the rehabilitation discussion — bracing, weight-bearing status and the staged criteria that guide a return to running and to sport. The educational value lies in seeing indication, operative findings and rehabilitation joined up for the same patient.
The orthopaedics and traumatology page spans elective, trauma and paediatric work; this page follows the injured knee, with ligament and meniscal problems taken from the sports injury clinic to arthroscopy. The arthritic knee, where the question is replacement rather than preservation, belongs to the hip and knee arthroplasty focus, and shoulder arthroscopy to the shoulder and elbow focus.
Clinical-year students and graduate physicians heading for orthopaedics or sports medicine who want to see how an injured knee is examined, imaged and either rehabilitated or listed for arthroscopy.
Orthopaedic surgeons with a specialist qualification whose stated interest is the sports knee — meniscal preservation, ligament reconstruction and return-to-sport decisions — within a 12–24-month observational attachment to the orthopaedics department, which decides allocation.
Both routes are strictly observational: observers attend theatre and clinic without patient contact, do not scrub or assist, and are not assessed on any procedure.
| Clinical Observership | Clinical Fellowship | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 1, 2 or 4 weeks (extension possible on request) | 12 to 24 months, agreed with the host department |
| Who it is for | Medical students in clinical years and graduate physicians from outside Turkey | Recognised specialists and family physicians seeking advanced exposure beyond standard specialty training |
| Format | Full-time, strictly observational — outpatient clinics, operating theatre, ward rounds, case discussions | Extended observational attachment to one department: daily practice, service structure and specific techniques |
| Certificate | Certificate of attendance issued by the host hospital and signed by its Medical Director | Certificate on completion issued under the accreditation of the affiliated university school of medicine |
| Start | Rotations typically begin on a Monday; dates are agreed individually | Start date planned around the date you request and the department's capacity |
One online application for both routes. State Knee Arthroscopy & Sports as your focus in your objectives; ATDERA reviews the file and prepares it for the Orthopaedics department, then replies with next steps, typically within two working days.
Already started? The application page picks up where you left off.
ATDERA Global Limited (Companies House No. 17173428, registered in England and Wales) coordinates this programme for a university teaching hospital in Istanbul. ATDERA is not a hospital and does not provide clinical care; admission decisions and certificates are the host hospital's.
One online application covers both routes and all twenty-one specialties — details, programme choice and documents in five short steps. ATDERA reviews the file and replies with next steps, typically within two working days.
