In 2011, Orthopaedic Outreach supported in excess of thirty five team visits throughout the Pacific, covering Cambodia, East Timor, West Timor, Fiji – Lautoka, Labasa & Suva, Indonesia – Bali, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, and Sri Lanka delivering both educational support and training as well as the provision of an orthopaedic surgical service where local resources and appropriately trained surgeons are lacking.

Orthopaedic Outreach team members also participated in team visits to Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Madagascar utilising primary funding from alternate sources, including those from AusAID funded Pacific Islands Program.

The philosophy of Orthopaedic Outreach is that of ‘teaching a man to fish,’ and as such wherever possible takes a long term view towards encouraging local self-sustainable models. Training programs for orthopaedic surgeons have been successfully established in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and more recently in Bali in association with the Indonesian Orthopaedic Association.