Today was fantastic - not one for those with a phobia of feet (particularly feet not attached to the bodies they have spent their living years with) or the squeamish, but for me it was very educational.  We were in DJO's surgical labs first thing & tackling our cadaveric feet (excuse the pun) before 9am under the guidance & tutelage of James (Calder) & Peter (Rosenfeld).  As you can tell from the picture, I was encouraged to get involved despite my lack of arthroscopy & surgical skills & before the day was over I was able to find my way around the musculoskeletal structures of the distal lower leg, the joints of the ankle & 1st MTP (metatarsal pharyngeal or one of the joints of the big toe for the non-medical readers) & had even debrided some of the intracapsular tissue & inflicted an articular chondral defect on the specimen, to enable us to prepare the joint for a mosiacplasty.  Apparently I took to the whole arthroscopy task rather well, which was pleasing to hear, as I dread being totally incompetent!!!