Over the past few months, Professor Middleton‘s Clinical Hip Fellow, Mr Nishil Modi has been offering surgical trainees from across the Wessex Deanery the opportunity to hone their surgical skills on the VR surgical simulators at ORI. Nishil has been teaching his colleagues in small groups and reports, “it has been great to see local… Read more » about Surgical trainees supported with VR simulation

We are delighted to welcome Wissem Tafat to the ORI team, she has joined ORI as a match funded PhD student in partnership with NHS Scotland. Her research will use data science techniques to develop a learning health system in NHS Scotland for orthopaedic surgery patients. She is being supervised by Prof Tom Wainwright, Prof… Read more » about ORI welcomes new PhD student – Wissem Tafat

Last week, ORI was delighted to welcome third year BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice (ODP) students to ORI’s Virtual Reality Training Lab for a series of workshops. The workshops were a follow-up from last year’s highly successful collaboration between ORI, Debora Almeida and her colleagues from the ODP team. Over a period of 3 days,… Read more » about VR surgical simulation workshops at ORI for BU ODP students

ORI was delighted to welcome third year BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice students to the Virtual Reality Training Lab for a series of workshops last week. The workshops were the first step in a growing collaboration between ORI and Debora Almeida and her colleagues from the Operating Department Practice team. Professor Tom Wainwright introduced the… Read more » about ODP students benefit from VR surgical simulation training at ORI

As a recent Psychology graduate I decided to explore my options within the field. I was luckily given the exciting opportunity to work alongside ORI on a research project, exploring how mental health smartphone applications are implemented and their impact on mental health. This was part of a larger future project researching how such applications… Read more » about “My Experience at ORI” by Student Research Assistant Katie Webb

As a psychology student at Bournemouth University, I was delighted to have the opportunity to join the Orthopaedic Research Institute team this summer as a Student Research Assistant. Working closely with Ranti Samaratunga on her PhD project which explores the Development and Evaluation of a Dedicated Simulator for Hip Surgery Training, I worked on evaluating… Read more » about “My Experience at ORI” by Student Research Assistant Layla Johnson

This week I had the opportunity to visit ORIBU in my half term. I had a fantastic time thanks to the ORI team and it has really motivated me in my aspiration to study medicine at university, showing me an entirely different side to the career. Throughout the week, I was able to use some… Read more » about My week at ORI – by Lottie Creasey

Professor Middleton has been involved in the development of robotic surgery and the use of computer navigation in surgery since 1997 when he published a paper titled “Active compliance in robotic surgery – the use of force control as a dynamic constraint.” More recently Professor Middleton and Associate Professor Wainwright have collaborated with colleagues from… Read more » about The BUORI is the first place in the world to have their own VirtaMed ArthroS™ hip simulator to train on.