The Board of editors

Mr R Dias, FRCS(T&O) Consultant Orthopaedic & Hand Surgeon, UK

Mr S Deshmukh, FRCS(T&O) Consultant Orthopaedic & Hand Surgeon, UK

Mr F Peart FRCS(Plast) Consultant Plastic & Hand Surgeon, UK

Prof. Sara Ahmad FRCS, AM(Mal)  Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Malaysia

Mr Simon Tan FRCS(T&O) Consultant Hand Surgeon, Birmingham Hand Centre, UK

Mr Dominic Power FRCS(T&O) Consultant Hand Surgeon, Birmingham Hand Centre, UK

Mrs Jill Webb FRCS(Plast)  Consultant Hand Surgeon, Birmingham Hand Centre, UK

Advisor

Mr V Rajaratnam*, FRCS, Dip Hand Surgery (Eur) Consultant Hand Surgeon, UK

Editorial Board and Contributor's Procedures

All content has been reviewed by at least one member of the Board who comprise of medically qualified individuals and are hand surgery specialist.  

All article submitted must be from medically qualified authors with a hand surgery specialist as one of the authors

The Board’s function will be to :- 

1. Organize the internal functions and responsibility
2. Establish the content and infrastructure of the knowledge warehouse
3. Identify, invite and produce guidelines to contributors
4. Develop a system of collecting, collating and storing the data
5. Analyse and edit all contributions with open, frank and tolerant attitude
6. Publish and maintain the atlas on to chosen platform
7. Procure all needed assistance and resources to achieve the objective

The Board and contributors will participate on the principle of self funding .

 System

 Maximum utilization of multimedia technology will be the basis of the system for the board to function.

All communication will be through group e mail

For uniformity all required software will be based on Microsoft

Authoring and publishing will be Microsoft FrontPage 2002 on a web/browser based platform

All imaging to be in gif/jpeg for stills and mpeg for video.

All contributors who are unable to edit imaging will send their images in raw high resolution format ( for stills and video in raw footage) with instructions on what is required for the publications. All accompanying narrations must be clear and sent with instructions on placement on timeline.

The Philosophy of the board

 Open to ideas

Knowledge is universal and belongs to no one

Disseminate knowledge as freely as possible

Knowledge is useful only if used

Allow anyone to share their knowledge

Ultimate objective is to improve the quality of hand surgery universally

Contributors’ skill requirement

 Basic IT skill – email, word processing (Microsoft Word )

Basic photography preferably digital imaging

Ability to record video preferable

Collections of images with text to accompany

Adhere to datelines

Share value of the Board

Disclaimer:

Although every effort is made by the publishers and editorial board to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement appear in this website, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles  herein are the responsibility of the contributor concerned. Accordingly, the publishers and the editorial board accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion or statement. Whilst every effort is made to ensure that drug doses and other quantities are presented accurately, readers are advised that new methods and techniques involving new techniques , surgery drug usage, as described in this site, should only be followed in conjunction with the contributors own published literature in their own practice.