The 36th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, will take place at the Alfândega Congress Center, in Porto from the 27th to the 29th of October 2016. The main theme of the Congress will be “Infection in Arthroplasties” and the main Round Table will be on “Distal Radial Fractures”. We will have an EFORT Forum on Advances in hip preserving surgery techniques and will also have numerous Symposia, Exhibits and other sessions, where there will be presentations and discussion of the state-of-the-art in various Orthopaedics and Traumatology topics which are very important, lectured by renowned Portuguese and international speakers.