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AAOS provides education and practice management services for orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals. The Academy also serves as an advocate for improved patient care and informs the public about the science of orthopaedics. Founded at Northwestern University as a not-for-profit organization in 1933, the Academy has grown from a small organization serving less than 500 members to the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists. The Academy now serves about 24,000 members internationally.

AANA exists to improve upon diagnosis treatment diseases and injuries of the muscular skeletal system.

The American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) is an organization of more than 1,600 orthopaedic surgeons who have special interest and training in the foot and ankle. Its members are medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy who, after completing medical school, have taken at least five years of additional training to become specialists in the care of diseases and deformities of the foot and the ankle and their surgical treatment.

ISAKOS is an international organization of surgeons, established to develop, support and promote charitable, scientific and literary works that disseminate and further the increased knowledge of arthroscopy, knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine.

The continuous evolution of orthopaedic knowledge based on promoting fellowship and scholarship programs, exchanging experiences during ESSKA conventions and other initiatives promulgated by our society.