Drs. Andrea Leti Acciaro (Modena, Italy), Maurizio Calcagni (Zurich, Switzerland), Max Haerle (Markgröningen, Germany), Daniel Herren (Zurich, Switzerland), Ignazio Marcoccio (Brescia, Italy), Frank Nienstedt (Merano, Italy) as well as Davide Smarrelli (Bergamo, Italy) gave exciting current insights into a very special topic. The educational meeting focusing on the Traumatic and Post-Traumatic PIP Joint hosted 150 registered participants who were very interested in all presented details generating enthusiastic feedbacks from everyone. This attractive satellite course showed once again how BIRG teaching activities may considerably contribute to a scientific upgrade of any hand surgery specialists meeting.