There is something quietly clarifying about doing serious work in a beautiful place. The Promenade des Anglais has a way of sharpening the mind even as it softens the mood — the light off the Baie des Anges is particular, almost clinical in its precision, and the grand façade of the Palais de la Méditerranée has looked out over it since the 1920s. It is here, on 18 June 2026, that the Nice Shoulder Course opens its doors for three days of focused, practitioner-level education in shoulder surgery.
The course is hosted inside the Hôtel Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée — a listed Art Deco landmark at 13 Promenade des Anglais whose history of hosting gatherings of consequence stretches back a century. The building's restoration preserved its ornate plasterwork and the sweep of its sea-facing windows; a room that size, with that view, concentrates the attention rather than dispersing it.
What the Programme Covers
The Nice Shoulder Course is structured around three full days dedicated entirely to the shoulder — arthroscopic and prosthetic surgery in equal measure. The format is deliberately varied. Symposiums run with surgeons of recognised specialism; case studies are examined in depth; and, crucially, the programme includes live surgery sessions alongside hands-on workshops. That combination — watching a procedure unfold in real time, then working through technique in a practical setting — is the kind of learning that a recorded lecture simply cannot replicate.
The course is designed for orthopaedic and shoulder surgeons seeking to advance or consolidate their practice. The faculty draws on clinicians whose expertise in the field is established, though the specific names have not yet been released ahead of the June dates.
'Cours de trois jours consacré à l'épaule, qui couvre la chirurgie arthroscopique et prothétique' — the course's own description is precise, and deliberately so.
Nice as a Setting for Surgical Education
The choice of Nice is not incidental. The city has long maintained a serious medical and academic infrastructure alongside its reputation for light and leisure. The Université Côte d'Azur anchors a research culture that extends into clinical practice, and the region's teaching hospitals have contributed to European surgical education for decades. A course of this calibre sits naturally within that tradition.
What Nice adds — and this matters more than it might seem — is a quality of environment that supports concentration over several days. Attendees arriving at the Palais de la Méditerranée step off a promenade that invites an evening walk between sessions; the old town, a ten-minute stroll east, offers restaurants where a table can be held without ceremony and a meal eaten slowly. The social architecture of a multi-day course is part of its value, and Nice provides it without effort.
The Hyatt Regency property itself offers the infrastructure expected of a venue at this level: meeting and conference spaces that can accommodate both plenary symposiums and smaller workshop configurations, with the operational support that sustained clinical programming requires.
Attending
The Nice Shoulder Course runs from 18 June 2026 at the Hôtel Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée, 13 Promenade des Anglais, Nice. The full three-day programme covers arthroscopic and prosthetic shoulder surgery through a mix of expert symposiums, case study sessions, live surgery, and practical workshops. Registration and programme details are available at nice-shoulder-course.com.
For those travelling specifically for the course, Nice Côte d'Azur Airport sits five kilometres west along the coast — one of the most straightforwardly reached major airports in France. The Promenade des Anglais begins almost at its threshold.
June on the Riviera is warm and reliably clear. The evenings are long. There are worse places to spend three days thinking carefully about something that matters.