In collaboration with the AOVET network, the Equine Clinic of Freie Universität Berlin will be holding a practical course on the surgical treatment of bone fractures in horses from October 8 to 11, 2014. AOVET is a member of the Association for Study of Internal Fixation (AO), which for years has been dealing with the fixation of fractures using plates and screws in veterinary and human medicine. Horse surgeons from all over the world are expected to attend the course in the Progressum Veterinarium, a training center for veterinary surgery at the Department of Veterinary Medicine. They will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of bone fractures in horses using screws and plates. There will be practical operation exercises demonstrating how to fix horse fractures that occur frequently by setting implants in horse limbs made of polyurethane. Until recently, a broken leg for a horse usually meant a death sentence because there were hardly any possibilities to fix the fracture. Thanks to improved implants and surgical techniques that have been developed by the AO, it is more often possible to successfully treat adult horses with bone fractures.