Courses & programmes
A common clinical foundation, individually adapted to national and international requirements, local priorities and the needs of each audience.
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Swiss Pelvic &
Acetabular Course
Join us ahead of ECTES 2027 for focused learning in pelvic trauma and polytrauma. Follow the course website for programme and registration updates.
Course details & updates
–ESTES congress · Zurich, Switzerland
26th European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
United in expertise, driven to excellence.
The course experience
The patient’s journey connects every edition.
The curriculum brings together polytrauma definition and assessment, physiology and resuscitation, surgical priorities, combined injuries, ongoing care and rehabilitation. Structured clinical reasoning and interdisciplinary case discussion connect these topics.
Each programme adapts the depth and balance to national and international educational requirements, local trauma systems and the host’s specialist focus. The audience’s experience, available resources and course format shape the cases and teaching methods.
Explore the shared curriculumThe curriculum in practice
Examples from course programmes show how the common foundation supports a distinct focus in each setting.
Aachen · 2025
Initial workup, shock and coagulopathy lead into brain, chest, abdominal, pelvic, spinal and vascular injuries. Penetrating trauma and a military perspective sit alongside rehabilitation and outcomes.
Case discussions connect the clinical sessions.
Stockholm · 2026
The polytrauma foundation is combined with a dedicated pelvic trauma programme: bleeding, emergency stabilisation, vascular injury, open pelvic injuries and associated abdominal trauma.
Small-group cases, rehabilitation and simulation extend the discussion.
SICOT Kyoto · 2026
The preliminary programme adds geriatric polytrauma, pelvic injuries in younger and older patients, complex extremity and soft-tissue injuries, nonunion, and mass-casualty and war-trauma experience.
Preliminary programme example; case discussions recur throughout.
The clinical focus, session length and learning formats can change with national and international requirements. Interdisciplinary reasoning and the patient’s journey remain the connecting principles.
Our course archive
Past editions from the course archive.
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Interdisciplinary Polytrauma Course in cooperation with ESTES
University Hospital Zurich
Polytrauma Course · SICOT congress
Polytrauma Course
Polytrauma Course
Polytrauma Course
Polytrauma Course
Good to know
The course brings together clinicians involved in the care of multiply injured patients, including general and visceral surgeons, orthopaedic trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, intensivists and emergency physicians.
The Swiss Pelvic & Acetabular Course with the Polytrauma Course is an ECTES 2027 precongress course in Zurich on 22–23 April 2027. Visit the course website for programme details and registration updates. The Polytrauma session timetable will follow the published programme.
The main congress takes place on 25–27 April 2027. Visit the ECTES congress website for congress information.
Each edition builds on shared clinical themes and interdisciplinary case discussion. Its specialist focus, depth and teaching formats are adapted to national and international educational requirements, local care pathways, resources and participant experience. The individual programme defines the sessions and timetable.
Focused lectures and case discussions provide the foundation. Small-group workshops, live video, simulation and military sessions are selected to suit the programme. Please check the individual edition for the formats included.
Our learning resources bring together textbooks and selected research from the course library.
