'Thank you so much for coming out and teaching our group! CASTED: Plastics was excellent, and everyone took away many pearls to apply moving forward. A colleague rightfully pointed out - 'I wonder how many of the things that were discussed we have missed in our practice so far…. but won’t anymore!'. Never mind the pearls to make our wound repair nicer, quicker, and less painful for patients.'
Thank you very much for your efforts to develop and offer CASTED. I recently attended the CASTED: Emergency hands-on workshop in Gatineau, QC and it was the finest workshop I have ever attended.
Thanks to Oleg and Matt’s thoughtful, concise, and uncluttered presentation, I learned much more easily, and understood more thoroughly in this seminar than in any other I can remember in over 26 years as a healthcare provider.
“Spectacularly practical course with multiple tips applicable to my daily practice starting tomorrow. Your course was one of the few I’ve ever taken that was chock full of practical, practice changing details.
You’ve created a new gold standard for excellent CME.”
“I took your great course (CASTED: Emergency) in Whistler. I continue to reference your course and textbook on almost every shift and I routinely promote the course to my colleagues because it has absolutely changed my practice.”
“Great, practical points that are useable immediately on my next shift. Possibly the best CME course I have taken.”
“CASTED was more relevant to my training than all my months of ortho training combined”
“I used the wrist surface anatomy my very first day back in the clinic. Tenderness over the lunate, and I added a ‘clenched fist’ view for the first time ever.
Great to be able to go beyond ‘soft tissue injury’!”
“Excellent, practical advice. Excellent speaker with excellent knowledge base! Definitely an asset to our profession and would highly recommend this course to any emerg doctor!”
“Dr. Sayal and his colleagues gave an excellent presentation from the review of fractures to hands-on practice of immobilization techniques. The course was so well received that we had to bring them back 6 months later for the remainder of the group. The evaluations for the course were nothing short of excellent.
The CASTED team did the set up and clean up themselves and I would definitely say (as an organizer of other CME events) that this was one of the easiest educational sessions that I have arranged, and one of the more useful practical courses an emergency department could provide for their staff.”
“An Orthopedic Awakening….. Great CME ….. covers pretty much all the orthopedics needed to work in a rural or urban ED. It’s just what CME should be; an entertaining, fast-paced mix of theory and hands-on practice. It’s a whirlwind tour of fractures, dislocations, common and not so common (who knew that you could fracture the hook of the hamate?) – and you end up with plaster up to your elbows!”
(Followed by this email 2 weeks later)
‘Just have to tell you that I diagnosed my first hook of the hamate fracture this weekend. Normal x-ray including ‘hook of the hamate’ view, but correct mechanism and tender exactly where you showed us. CT confirmed the fracture which had been missed on initial presentation. Thanks CASTED!’
“It’s now a year since I took the CASTED course, and every shift I realize again what a great course it is.
My CASTED manual (with many notes scribbled in the margins from the course itself) is one of my most reached-for ED reference books.
Thanks for putting together such an awesome course!”
“We were very fortunate to bring the CASTED Roadshow to our hospital. I have brought many different courses to our docs but never have they raved so much about a course. It is one of the few courses that has changed my practice in a profound way. We revamped our entire cast room based on your principles. The hands-on was fantastic and the speakers amazing. In a world where ‘common sense ain’t so common’, this course was all common sense.”
“I’d like to thank you again for your wonderful course (CASTED: Emergency) . On my first day back to Urgent Care, I performed the Cunningham technique (with no sedation) to reduce a shoulder dislocation in one minute, designed an ankle stirrup splint and diagnosed a triceps avulsion. I would not have done these without the good understanding that I had from attending your CASTED course.”
“Thank you for the excellent course in Whistler. I learned so much and have been using the tips, techniques, and book a ton in both the office and the ED. I’ve also been raving about the course to my colleagues and the students/residents I’ve worked with. I really appreciate the hands on and practical info you both shared!”
“P.S. – your trick for reducing a PIP dislocation worked like a charm yesterday!”
“Just wanted to let you know that after taking the CASTED course I had a few Colles’ fractures which I beautifully reduced! Thanks for taking the time to explain the reduction technique!”
“So far you have the gold medal for the very best roadshow given in Whitehorse!”
“Everything I learned is already being applied in more practical ways than I would have imagined”