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Nordic Orthopaedic Resident Independence Questionnaire

We are thrilled to introduce the first-ever collaborative survey of the Young Nordic Orthopaedic Federation (Young NOF) — an exciting initiative marking the start of a new era in cross-border collaboration among future orthopaedic surgeons!

All orthopaedic surgery residents of the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation (NOF) are invited to participate in the Nordic Orthopaedic Resident Independence Questionnaire. The aim of this questionnaire is to provide new data regarding orthopaedic resident training in countries affiliated with the NOF.

This questionnaire is an initiative of the resident associations of the NOF countries: Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland. This survey is your unique opportunity to shape the future of orthopaedic surgery training across our nations. By sharing your experiences, insights, and perspectives, we can uncover crucial information about how our training programs differ, what skills make us feel confident, and how we can all learn from one another. Together, we can identify areas for improvement and innovation in training, benefiting registrars now and in the future.

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Your voice matters!

The more responses we receive, the stronger and more impactful our findings will be. This is your chance to contribute to something bigger—data that could lead to meaningful actions, improve orthopaedic training across the region.

Let’s make the first step of our collaboration a powerful one. Join your colleagues in shaping the future of orthopaedic surgery training by completing the survey today!

Acta Orthopaedica is the new official publisher of the ISAR congresses (International Society of Arthroplasty Registries) starting in 2025. This collaboration will strengthen register research and academic dissemination of high-quality articles in Acta Orthopaedica.

Acta Orthopaedica is a natural journal for ISAR to publish in, as this journal has a long tradition of publishing register research. We have many reviewers highly qualified in reviewing register trials. Moreover, several reviewers in the editorial team have extensive experience in the field.

ISAR arranges yearly congresses with presentations of original research. Full manuscripts developed from presented abstracts may be submitted to Acta Orthopaedica and published as an ISAR article. The next congress is in February 2025 in New Zealand.

Submission: instructions for authors on the Acta Orthopaedica website.

Acta Orthopaedica, anno 1930, is of January 2025 a company called ACTA ORTHOPAEDICA NOF AB, owned by the NOF (Nordic Orthopaedic Federation).

Dr. Li Felländer-Tsai, the new managing director and deputy editor, and the current president of NOF, Søren Kold, signed the agreement. This agreement strengthens Acta’s genuine historical connection with the NOF, which began in 1930 when the NOF founded Acta.

The construction will not change Acta Orthopaedic’s scientific direction, which continues as before with a strong editorial team, and the same publisher MJS (Medical Journals Sweden).

Visit the Acta Orthopaedica website

The 62nd NOF Congress will take place from november 11 to november 13 2026 in Copenhagen.

• Read more about this event on the NOF website
• Visit the congress website

In the General Assembly at the 2024 NOF Congress in Rotterdam, Søren Kold was appointed as the new NOF President. He succeeded Heikki Kröger, who was thanked for his good work during his presidency.

Our good friend and colleague Anders Rydholm, editor of the Acta Orthopaedica and honorary member of the NOF, passed away on Saturday 8^th October 2022.

Anders has been editor in chief of the Acta Orthopaedica for many years. We commend him for his excellent work in developing the Acta Orthopaedica as a high-level international scientific journal. We believe that the Acta Orthopaedica has a very solid future.

We all mourn his passing and will remember him as a wonderful and very kind person.

A short new year report and update

In the last weeks of 2021, the covid epidemic was spinning faster than ever before. The infection rate is high, but the virus seems to have evolved to a weaker status. This epidemic has affected our planning and all our work in the NOF in the past two years.

NOF congress in Lithuania in May 2022

In spring 2020, just a few days before the planned NOF congress in Throndheim, the NOF was forced to cancel the congress. The congress had been meticulously planned by the Norwegian congress committee, but due to the increasing impact of covid cancellation was inevitable. The committee worked hard to minimize the economic loss, and a relatively small part of the total potential loss was covered by NOF funds. The decision was made to arrange the following NOF congress in Lithuania in May 2022. Needless to say, it is especially important that this congress will be a successful one and will attract a high number of attendees.

Acta Orthopaedica

The publishing company Taylor & Francis has been publishing Acta Orthopaedica for many years. In 2021 a new publishing agreement was negotiated but was subsequently cancelled after a few months by T&F. A new successful publishing agreement was negotiated with another publishing company, Medical Journals Sweden. Working with MJS is functioning smoothly and seems promising (read more).

Anders Rydholm has been editor in chief of Acta Orthopaedica for many years. He has now declared that he is leaving this post. Sören Overgaard, Li Felländer Tsai, Cecilia Rogmar and more have joined the editorial board of Acta. The NOF General Assembly in Lithuania will elect the next editor in chief.

Acta Orthopaedica is changing. The production of separate issues will stop, and new articles will be immediately available online. A new monthly Newsletter will replace the traditional Acta issue.

It seems quite clear that with the present editorial board Acta’s future looks bright.

Happy new year

I am certain that the NOF will go on after covid and will continue to prosper scientifically and socially to the benefit of its members.

I wish you all a very happy new year

Ragnar Jónsson,
President NOF

President Ragnar Jonsson on the NOF in 2020 and 2021

I wish you all a happy new year!

As the last days of the year 2020 are over, tradition demands that we look back and think about the past, and look ahead at the future.

2020: the year of COVID-19

COVID-19 has dominated the scene and the year 2020 will always be remembered as the year of COVID-19. COVID-19 is a recently discovered Coronavirus that causes a serious infectious disease. This contagious virus has spread around the world, leaving behind serious illness and deaths.

Various health systems have been forced to their knees, fighting this epidemic with varying degrees of success. Currently, a new vaccine gives us hope that the epidemic will soon be under control after a sufficient number of people have been vaccinated.

Orthopaedic clinics around the world have all had their share of problems related to this epidemic and have been struggling to take care of the constant flow of patients. But the heavy burden on hospitals and other health care providers in general has also seriously impacted the work of all orthopaedic clinics around the world, reducing and affecting their activities. In anticipation of the future development of COVID-19, several meetings and conferences have also been cancelled or put on ice.

NOF Congress postponed to 2022

The COVID-19 epidemic has also seriously affected the work and activities of the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation. The biennial NOF Congress was scheduled in Trondheim, Norway in May 2020. This was a centennial congress, in preparation since 2017. The congress committee in Norway had scheduled a high-level orthopaedic scientific program, which we unfortunately were forced to cancel in April 2020. Congress president Ketil Holen and his colleagues are to be congratulated on completing the difficult task of cancelling and dissolving the congress with minimal economic loss to the Norwegian Orthopaedic Association and the NOF. As a result, the NOF’s economy was not compromised.

After the cancellation of the congress in Norway, it was decided to postpone it to the year 2022 and move it to Lithuania.

Thoughts on the future

In these difficult times, questions have been raised about the future of the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation. I have been involved in the administration of the NOF for the past sixteen years and questions about the future of the NOF and the need for such a general federation have regularly arisen during this time. The fact that the NOF has grown with new members from the Netherlands and the Baltic states clearly answers these considerations and questions. The existence of a general orthopaedic forum is clearly well accepted despite ongoing further evolution of subspecialities.

It is not the first time that the NOF is going through difficult times that could threaten its existence. The NOF survived two world wars without breaking. There is no doubt in my mind that the NOF will survive this virus epidemic too.

No general assembly in 2020

The general assembly of the NOF is held every two years in connection with the NOF Congress. The general assembly elects the president and the vice president. Because there was no congress in 2020, it was impossible to follow the procedure as stated in the NOF statutes. The board of the NOF decided during a Zoom meeting in November 2020 that Heikki Kröger and I continue as vice president and president, and that other changes will await the Lithuanian general assembly in 2022.

My sincere thanks for this decision. My colleagues and I at The EXCOM will continue to do our best over the next two years.

Ragnar Jonsson,
president of the NOF

All are invited to the NOF Centennial Congress 13-15 May 2020 (pre-congress symposium 12 May 2020) in Trondheim, the former Viking stronghold and Norwegian medieval capital.

We will celebrate the first 100 years of NOF as an organization with focus on scientific excellence and uniting orthopaedic surgeons from our member countries.

For information: https://www.ntnu.edu/nof2020