Name of Training Centre: Jeff Ecker Wrist and Hand Institute
Name of PFET Supervisor(s):
- Dr Jeff Ecker
Contact details:
- Bethesda Hospital, 25 Queenslea Dr, Claremont WA 6010
- Phone: (08) 9334 0750
- Website: jeffecker.com.au
- Fellowship Coordinator: fellowship@ecker.com.au
Availability of PFET Positions:
- Duration of fellowship: 6 months or 12 months
- Start dates: February or August
- One position
Description of Programme:
- One major consultant
Monthly meeting with six other consultants for complex cases and learning. Opportunity to work with several other consultants if time allows in their private practice (same hospital). - Orthopaedic surgeons
- Private practice:
Case-mix: trauma and elective, hand and wrist - Fellow’s timetable:
Three lists/week 1:30pm – 6:30/10:30pm. Morning consulting three days a week. Full day consulting two days a week. - Focus:
- Arthroscopy
- Arthroscopic ligament repair and bone grafting
- All aspects hand surgery
- Distal radius fracture
- Nerve compression
- High volume, data collection and outcome assessment
- Co-located with hand therapy, great learning opportunity
- Teaching:
- Monthly hand therapy teaching
- Monthly complex case meeting
- Weekly Fellows meeting with complex case and literature review
Research Areas:
- Arthroscopic bone grafting
- Dupuytren’s outcomes and recurrence rates
- New technique development – e.g., DRUJ dry arthroscopy, supraretinacular carpal tunnel release, SKIA DRUJ fusion