| Welcome to the Pacific Islands Orthopaedic Association The Pacific Islands Orthopaedic Association (PIOA) was formed to promote and develop modern orthopaedic surgical care in the Islands of the South Pacific. The association was established in Honiara, Solomon Islands and has trainees from nine Pacific Island countries. (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, Kiribati, Federated states of Micronesia, Palau, Timor Leste and Vanuatu). See map below for locations of our members and trainees. PIOA welcomes enquiries from orthopaedic surgeons who wish to become members. The next block – “Upper limb and Reserach modules will be held in September 2024.. Applications to commence training in 2025 close on 31 October 2024. Click here for the Application form.  Click map for Google Earth view of where our trainees are based. |
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PIOA Hip module – Honiara Solomon Islands
The Hip Module started off on Saturday 8th March with similar structure of basics in history taking and Hip Examination on the first day. The morning started off with a handover of local team admissions and we continued to our 2 bed rounds split into 2 groups. Each group is led by a lecturer. The …
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PIOA students complete the Spine module in Honiara, Solomon Islands
The Spine module started off on Monday 3rd Of March. The mornings start at 8am with a handover of the local team admissions and reviews and students are welcome to participate in the discussions. Then we moved to 2 Bed ward rounds on selected cases picked the previous day for a deep dive into history …
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PIOA students graduate from National University of Samoa
There was great rejoicing at the formal graduation ceremony held in Apia, Samoa on 4 April 2025. 4 PIOA students were awarded a Master of Surgery (Orthopaedics) by the National Univeersity of Samoa. This brings to 12 the total number of graduates from the PIOA programme. Graduation video.mp4 Dr Shaun Mauiliu (2019) and Dr Areta …
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