MR Zakaria Girgis

manage outpatient orthopedic clinics, including trauma and specialty cases, ensuring comprehensive patient care and timely decision-making. • Perform a wide range of trauma surgeries, including fracture fixation and emergency orthopedic procedures • Assist consultants in advanced elective and complex surgical procedures,• Provide ward-based care for pre- and post-operative patients, managing complications and ensuring smooth recovery pathways. • Participate in on-call rota, delivering prompt assessment and management of acute orthopedic and trauma cases. attending departmental teaching weekly.

Dar Al Shifaa Hospital, a tertiary care hospital in Cairo with 130 beds and 20 ICU beds, handles both polytrauma and elective orthopedic cases. It is equipped with advanced imaging facilities like CT and MRI and supported by 20 consultants across various orthopedic subspecialties.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:
• Clinics: Conducted regular clinics independently and alongside consultants.
• Accident and Emergency: Extensive experience managing polytrauma patients following ATLS protocols.
• Theatre: Performed registrar-level procedures, including DHS, long bone nailing, ankle/wrist fracture fixation, and hip hemiarthroplasty. Assisted in complex cases like total knee/hip arthroplasty and arthroscopy.
• Ward: Proficient in pre- and post-operative care for orthopedic patients.
• Teaching: Presented trauma cases during daily rounds and contributed to weekly departmental discussions to improve patient care.
• DVT Prophylaxis Improvement: Developed a risk score sheet and educational materials to enhance the system for orthopedic patients.
• Rotation: Gained experience in diverse orthopedic subspecialties under renowned professors and doctors, including pediatrics, deformities, arthroscopy, trauma, hip/knee arthroplasty, spine surgery, and foot/ankle surgery.

Successfully completed a master’s degree in Trauma and Orthopedics during this tenure, presenting an approved thesis.

I work there as an orthopedic registrar. I do accident and emergency on calls. In the theatre I do registrar level cases and assist my consultants in their cases. I rotate between consultants in different specialties. I worked with the following consultants :
-MR. SAMIR FANOUS. FRCS. (ARTHROPLASY)
-MR. SAMY ALBERT. FRCS. (TRAUMA)
-MR. ATEF HANNA. FRCS, MD. (PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC)

Cairo University hospital is the main teaching hospital in Egypt.
It is a tertiary care hospital serving over 10 million person.
I worked there as a rotation for preparation to finish my master degree in trauma and orthopedics.
I Did rotations between different departments.
Vascular surgery department (3months)
plastic surgery department (3months)
then i did rotations between different orthopedic departments:
hand surgery, pediatric, foot and ankle, trauma, pelvis and arthroplasty, geriatric and arthroscopy.
Teaching: weekly department meeting to present patients and their management plan and post operative patients and their care and what was done wrong and how to improve. was attending courses to fulfil the requirements to finish my master degree. During rotation i successfully finished my memership of royal college of surgeons.
Research: i was collecting cases for my thesis (quantitative assessment of tibio calcaneal angle and talo first metatarsal angle pre and post tendon achilles tenotomy in ponseti technique) and that was presented and approved by a panel of three professors.
In TRAUMA unit : I had the opportunity to face and manage a wide variety of complex multiple trauma cases. I was a member of the MDT trauma team, dealing with other surgical and medical specialties to deliver the best care for trauma patients. In the theatre, I learned to perform external fixators, joint dislocations reduction and ORIF of different fractures. I also had the opportunity to observe and assist my colleagues in different vascular and plastic emergency procedures like split-thickness grafts, flaps and vascular repair or bypass surgeries.
In HAND unit : I had the opportunity to assist professors in advanced surgeries including brachial plexus exploration and grafting, peripheral nerve grafting and repair, delayed tendon repairs, wrist arthroscopy, deformity correction, four-corner fusions and wrist fusions. I learned to perform direct tendon repairs, carpal tunnel and trigger finger release, and ganglion excision under supervision.
In the Pediatric Orthopedics Unit :
I assisted my professors in different procedures for management of DDH, Perth's, SCFE, CTEV, deformity corrections, scoliosis correction, syndactyly, polydactyly and brachial plexus explorations. , I was attending a weekly ponseti clinic, performing serial ponseti casting
and follow-ups .
In Foot and ankle Unit i assisted in plano valgus and Hallux valgus correction surgeries.
In spine Surgery Unit i assisted in lumbar fusion and fixation for spondylolithesis and lumbar disc prolapse and spinal canal stenosis cases.
In Pelvis and Arthroplasty Unit i assisted in Total hip and total knee replacement surgeries and pelvic fractures ORIF.

I worked with the following professors:
-prof. Hussein khairy. MD. (vascular surgery)
-prof. Salah Abd Alghany. MD.. (plastic surgery)
-prof. Atef Hanna. MD.FRCS. (Pediatric othopedic)
-prof. Mohammed Tag Aldin. MD. (pediatric orthopedic)
-prof. ALi Reda. MD. (Foot and ankle)
-Prof. Ashraf Moharam. MD. (Hand surgery)
-prof. Mohammed Hegazy. MD. (TRAUMA)
-Prof. Ahmed Rizk. MD. (arthroscopy)

Luxor Hospital is the main referral hospital in Luxor. I worked there as orthopedic registrar .
Accident and Emergency on calls and theatre working with consultants and senior registrars in trauma cases.

I was SHO rotating between surgical and medical departments.

IT was internship year, i was rotating between surgical and medical departments.