There are three types of medical conference/ workshops . A. Organised by Associations and societies of doctors, These conferences are highly political, scientific content is low, speakers are chosen more for their connections than work, have a very large trade exhibition and a larger banquet is more of a Kumbh Mela or a circus. It costs a bomb to register, the city is full of specialists of one kind, and younger surgeon intent on learning is sorely disappointed.
A young surgeon back from an IOACON, (the national orthopaedic conference) would certainly not learn to actually perform even one new surgical procedure. The type of presentations here are “See how brilliant my results are and that is what I have done, am I not great?" No speaker actually tells the delegates “How I did this!”. The level of use to surgeon: Less than 20%. This is more of a holiday or picnic where you take your…
