British Orthopaedic Trainees Association

Welcome to the BOTA handbook

In this section:

Training issues About BOTA Call for abstracts Constitution & Policies Elective bursary FRCS Help Honours Board Orthopaedics as a Career Presidential foreword The Future UKITE

This guide is written by members of the BOTA committee past and present, and hopefully will be of use to established trainees as well as new HSTs in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

This section of our website is designed to provide you with a guide to:

Careers and career pathways in Orthopaedics and Trauma in the UK
The training requirements of this pathway
What to do as a newly appointed SpR or ST3 in Trauma and Orthopaedics
The BOTA organisation and philosopy
Our role in supporting Orthopaedic trainees
How you can get more involved with BOTA
The future of Orthopaedic Training and Practice
Help with using this site, and finding your way around our pages

We always like to keep in touch with our members, and even very small suggestions are always helpful. If you have any useful feedback as to how this guide could be improved, or would like to contribute in any other way, then contact the web editor or any other member of the committee.