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3. FRAGILITY FRACTURES
Course Overview
This course focus on osteoporosis as a silent disease and the most common fragility fractures.
By completing this course, you will learn to:
- Recognise a fragility fracture (low fracture trauma) as a warning sign of osteoporosis.
- Consider the fragility fracture as a strong predictor of future fracture risk.
- Identify the most common sites of fragility fractures.
- Classify osteoporotic vertebral fractures.
Self-assessment criteria:
- You must complete a multiple-choice question-based assessment to test your understanding of the content covered in this course.
- There are 7 questions with a time limit of 15 minutes to complete the assessment. Once this time has elapsed, the assessment will be considered completed at its current level of progress.
- A maximum of three attempts are allowed to pass the Self-assessment.
- The pass mark is 80%.
If you successfully pass the assessment, you will be awarded certification for course 3 and progress to course 4.