Dr Sunil Ramawat

Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Orthopaedic Surgery

• Examination: passed in May 2018
• Specialists Registration: MED 000 175 6033

Master of Surgery (MS) Orthopaedics

• Medical School: Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Maharashtra, India
• University: Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Maharashtra, India

MBBS

• Medical School: Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
• University: University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Orthopaedic VMO
Department of Orthopaedics
Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital.

• Managing foot and ankle and orthopaedic trauma surgery
• Performing on-call duties
• Actively involved in teaching and academic duties within the department

Trauma and Orthopaedic Fellow Department of Orthopaedics, The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Camperdown, NSW

Clinical Practice

• Managing trauma cases in five trauma operating lists weekly.
• Averaging 12-15 operations per week.
• Ensuring efficiency in managing surgical lists.
• Performing less complex or moderately complex orthopaedic trauma surgery independently.
• Performing complex trauma surgery under supervision of consultants.
• Performing 1-in-5 on-call duties including supervising registrars managing orthopaedic cases.   

Teaching / Supervision

• Supervising trainee registrars for less complex trauma surgery.
• Teaching trainee registrars and undergraduates.

Leadership / Teamwork

• Organising a trauma meeting fortnightly for trainee registrars, on orthopaedic trauma cases based upon recent evidence.
• Co-ordinating tutorials for undergraduates.
• Supervising trainee registrars in outdoor clinics.
• Working effectively with nursing and allied health staff.

Senior Medical Officer / Staff Specialist Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Qld

Clinical Practice

• Undertaking supervised practice after completing Specialist Assessment training.
• Conducting fortnightly clinics assessing patients with general orthopaedic conditions.
• Completing a weekly elective operating list.
• Supervising a weekly trauma list, including registrars’ clinical and operating aspects of orthopaedic case management.
• Leading acute management of severe orthopaedic injuries.

Teaching / Supervision

• Supervising a fracture assessment clinic while teaching registrar management of trauma patients in the clinical setting.
• Performing 1-in-4 on-call duties including supervising registrars managing orthopaedic cases.

Leadership / Teamwork

• Participating in departmental activities e.g. audits, x-ray meeting, journal clubs.
• Leading multidisciplinary teams in patient management.

Tumour Fellow (8 weeks)

Department of Orthopaedics, The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW

• Managing tumour cases.
• Participating as a member of the orthopaedic oncology.
• Monitoring overall management of orthopaedic oncology cases while working with Dr Paul Stalley and Dr Richard Boyle.
• Teaching trainee registrars and undergraduates.
• Participating in outdoor clinics.
• Performing 1-in-5 on-call duties.
• Supervising registrars’ management of orthopaedic cases on-call

Trauma Fellow
Department of Orthopaedics, The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW

Clinical Practice

• Managing trauma cases in three trauma operating lists weekly.
• Averaging 12-15 operations per week.
• Ensuring efficiency in managing surgical lists.
• Performing less complex or moderately complex orthopaedic trauma surgery independently.
• Performing complex trauma surgery under supervision of consultants.
• Performing 1-in-5 on-call duties including supervising registrars managing orthopaedic cases.   

Teaching / Supervision

• Supervising trainee registrars for less complex trauma surgery.
• Teaching trainee registrars and undergraduates.

Leadership / Teamwork

• Organising a trauma meeting fortnightly for trainee registrars, on orthopaedic trauma cases based upon recent evidence.
• Co-ordinating tutorials for undergraduates.
• Supervising trainee registrars in outdoor clinics.
• Working effectively with nursing and allied health staff.

Arthroplasty Fellow
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville SA

Clinical Practice

• Performing a large number of arthroplasties independently while working with Dr Peter Lewis, David Campbell and Dr Will Duncan.
• Managing approx. 30 patients in 4-5 outpatient clinics per week, supervised by Fellowship Director and other nominated orthopaedic consultant supervisors.
• Reviewing and managing approx.. 30 patients per week in clinics.
• Conducting 2 clinics per month reviewing and managing fracture patients, unsupervised as the Nominated Clinician Responsible.
• Working with the on-call roster including 1-in-4 days on-call, included 1-in-4 weekends and supervising trainee registrars in managing cases.
• Managing most emergencies independently.
• Performing 2-3 full day operative lists per week including performing approx. 3 arthroplasty cases.
• Performing independently numerous primary arthroplasty, arthroscopies, revision arthroplasty and trauma surgery.

Communication

• Liaising regularly with the consultant on call regarding patients admitted and operations performed.

Leadership / Teamwork

• Co-ordinating smooth functioning of all the operating lists in collaboration with the consultant in charge.
• Supervising and teaching registrars in arthroplasty procedures.
• Participating in research projects as Principal Investigator and Co-investigator.
• Maintaining on call and routine rosters for registrars.

Additional Role:

Clinical Lecturer
University of Adelaide, SA

• Teaching medical students

Arthroplasty Fellow (6 months)

Warringal Medical Centre and Private Hospital
Heidelberg, Vic

Clinical Experience

• Gaining experience inarthroplasty, especially revision arthroplasty working with Dr Neil Bergman.
• Reviewing patients in outpatient clinics.  
• Participating in morning ward rounds.

Teamwork

• Participating in preoperative planning, operations and postoperative management of patients.
• Attending all ward rounds Morbidity and Mortality Meetings and audits at the Austin Hospital.
• Participating in two research projects with Dr Bergman:
  • Long-term clinical and radiological outcomes of the Secur-Fit Plus uncemented femoral stem at 10 to 16 year follow-up.
  • An effective and convenient method for restoration of limb-length and offset in total hip arthroplasty: An Audit

Knee, Foot and Ankle Clinical Fellow
Royal Adelaide and Mt Barker Hospitals  & Adelaide Orthosports Clinic Adelaide, SA

Clinical Practice

• Working in the public hospital and private clinics.
• Working mostly independently in conducting foot and ankle clinics and reviewing in-patients.
• Performing many foot, ankle and knee procedures including joint replacements and arthroscopies, initially under supervision, then later independently.

Teamwork

• Assisting consultants in public and private hospitals for many different lower limb procedures, i.e. hip, knee and ankle replacements as well as foot and ankle conditions.
• Performing on call duties at the Royal Adelaide Hospital including supervising trainee registrars in managing trauma and other orthopaedic emergency cases.
• Participating in four research projects with Dr Peter Stavrou:
  • Perioperative management of anti-rheumatic medicine in patients undergoing foot and ankle surgery - A literature review.
  • Fifth Metatarsal Fracture Fixation: Is there a Goldilocks Screw?
  • Wound complications associated with prophylactic low molecular weight heparin therapy for prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after foot and ankle procedures and lower limb immobilization.
  • Syndesmosis injury: Intra-observer and Inter-observer Reliability of the Radiological Assessment of the injury.

Clinical Lecturer
University of Adelaide, SA

• Teaching medical students

Orthopaedic Consultant
Asian Institute of Medical Sciences Plot No – 72, Milap Nagar,  MIDC Area, Dombivli (E) – 421203 Maharashtra, India

Clinical Practice

• Managing all types of in-patient admissions.
• Performing numerous trauma, spine and arthroplasty procedures independently including:
  • Spinal surgeries including: laminectomy, discectomy, pedicular screw fixation, debridement and fixation of tubercular spine (level D9-D10).
  • Joint replacement surgeries including primary total hip and knee replacement.
  • Paediatric procedures including fractures and deformity corrections.
  • Managing a significant trauma workload e.g. repairing open injuries and complex intra-articular fractures.

Teamwork / Training

• Worked in a team with general surgeons and anaesthetists to provide trauma care for patients.
• Teaching and supervising registrars.

Orthopaedic Senior Registrar, Bhabha Atomic Research Institute Hospital, Maharashtra, India

Orthopaedic Senior Registrar, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, India

Orthopaedic Senior Registrar
Medicity Private Hospital, Haryana, India

Orthopaedic Senior Registrar
Noida 201301, Uttar Pradesh, India

Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Medical College, Maharashtra, India

Intern
Sardar Patel Medical College and Prince Bijay Singh Memorial Hospital Bikaner, Rajasthan, India

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

Medical Council Of India

Maharashtra Medical Council

Rajasthan Medical Council

Foundation Skills for Surgical Educator,

Controversies in Trauma Surgery,

AO Master course in Foot and Ankle,

Australian Paediatrics Orthopaedic Society Meeting,

AO Basic Trauma Course

AO Advance Trauma Course, Sydney

American Foot and Ankle Society meeting,

Corin Anterior Hip Cadaveric Course

Medecta Anterior Hip Cadaveric Course

Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) Course

University of Sydney Arthroscopy Skills Workshop

Stryker Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care (OTC) Foundation

Advance Trauma Course, Pelvis and Acetabulum Surgery

Training in Professional Skills (TIPS) Course

World Federation of Neurosurgical Society (WFNS) Spine
Committee Cadaver Course, Mumbai

Prevention and Rehabilitation of Sports Injuries Workshop
Hand and Wrist

Refresher Course on Bone Tumours

Complications and Pitfalls in Arthroscopy Surgery Workshop

Advanced Fracture Fixation Course

Spine: The New Millennium Workshop

Basic Fracture Fixation Course

1-Fifth Metatarsal Fracture Fixation: Is there a Goldilocks Screw?
2-Wound complications associated with prophylactic low molecular weight heparin therapy for prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after foot and ankle procedures and lower limb immobilization.
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting,Long Beach, California, USA

Midterm to long term results of Secur-Fit femoral stem’
Presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of AOA, Brisbane, Qld

‘Perioperative management of anti-rheumatic medicine in patients undergoing general orthopaedic or foot and ankle surgery’.
Western Indian Regional Orthopaedic Conference Mumbai, India.
Review article establishing guidelines for general orthopaedic surgery.

‘Perioperative management of anti-rheumatic medicine in patients undergoing foot and ankle surgery’
Presented at the Combined Australian  & New Zealand Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Conference, Sydney, NSW

VMO Orthopaedic
Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital

Involved in departmental teaching based upon the training guidelines for the orthopaedics trainees (SET trainees) by the Australian Orthopaedic Association. .

Trauma Fellow
The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW

SET Trainees:

• Conducting fortnightly clinical meetings on quality improvement in  management of fracture cases.
• Organising monthly Mortality and Morbidity and Journal Club meetings.
• Supervising SET trainees managing fractures and teaching them during operations.

Undergraduates

• Conducting tutorials e.g. ‘Management of Common Fractures’

Clinical Lecturer
University of Adelaide & Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, SA

SET Trainees:

• Organising weekly x-ray meetings and discussing clinical cases.
• Teaching registrars during surgery.
• Working as Examiner for the trial Fellowship (FRACS) exam conducted in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in May 2014.

Undergraduates

• Conducting tutorials:
  • Management of fractures
  • Examination of foot and ankle conditions
  • Common foot and ankle conditions
  • Hip examination
  • Knee examination
  • Bed-side clinics

Clinical Lecturer
University of Adelaide & Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA

SET Trainees:

• Discussing foot and ankle conditions, e.g. Calcaneus Fractures’

Undergraduates

• Conducting tutorials:
  • Examination of foot and ankle conditions
  • Shoulder and elbow examination
  • Management of fractures
  • Hip and knee examination
  • Hip conditions

Orthopaedic Consultant
Asian Institute of Medical Science, India

• Lecturing to medical students and conducting formal tutorials and informal teaching.
• Teaching registrars and nursing staff.
• Teaching Resident doctors about common orthopaedic cases during the ward rounds and operations.

Registrar
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, India

• Teaching students through formal tutorials and bedside education.

Orthopaedic Specialist Registrar
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, India

• Conducting tutorials and bedside clinics for undergraduates