The Roadmap of Research: A Guide to Understanding and Writing a Medical Study

Fernando Bidolegui has a degree in Medicine from the Barceló Foundation University in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed the specialization in orthopaedics and traumatology as a Resident at the Navy Hospital and later was Chief Resident at the same hospital. He completed a fellowship in hip and knee surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Miguel Cabanela in 2002. In 2004, he did his AO Trauma fellowship in at the Universitätklinik des Saarlandes, Homburg Germany, with Prof. Tim Pohlemann. He serves as Head of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Department of the Sirio Libanés Hospital and of the Orthopaedics Department of the Otamendi Sanatorium, both in Buenos Aires. Dr. Bidolegui is also a member of AO Trauma Argentina, an AO Trauma international faculty, and actively contributes to the Research Support Group of AO Trauma Latin America. He is a recertified consulting member of the Argentine Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (AAOT), and member of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) and the Association for the Study of the Hip and Knee (ACARO). Dr. Bidolegui is a former president of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association of Argentina. With a prolific academic career, Dr. Bidolegui has authored several papers published in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several book chapters in the field of orthopaedic trauma.