[Two realities with a future: quality teaching and research quality teaching].

This issue of the Journal includes an article on education written by the members of the National Specialty Commission (NSC), concurrently renowned members of the Spanish Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SECOT is the Spanish acronym). They present the results of the latest session of the voluntary final examination, which the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality holds for the resident physicians recently graduated from their period of specialised training. The number of colleagues presented duplicated that of the prior session by a wide margin. This test is recognised, valued and rewarded by doctors in other specialties, by managers and by the Administration. It is already one of the most valuable legacies that the Spanish Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology possesses, because it assesses how we transmit knowledge to the future protagonists of our specialty in Spain, thanks to the altruism of the NSC and SECOT members and -above all -of the young colleagues who present themselves to be assessed. The SECOT, with the support of its corporate bodies and the associates in general, holds many annual scientific activities with the objective of achieving success on the examination; this implicitly involves the transmission of knowledge with a quality comparable to that of the best Western societies, and constitutes a praiseworthy institutional collaboration with NSC and an exemplary social commitment. The article analysis, where several variables are stratified, demonstrates how autonomous societies can participate in accurately transmitting information about the examination and in preparing their young doctors to pass the test, as an objective representation of their community’s