Tenth Postgraduate Orthopaedics FRCS (Tr&Ortho) Revision Course January 2024

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Description

Postgraduate Orthopaedics FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Revision course 15-20th  Jan 2024

A 6-day intensive course designed to cover all aspects of preparation for the FRCS (Tr& Orth) examination. The course material will closely mirror the material contained in the Postgraduate Orthopaedics book series.

This course is internationally accredited by the RCSEng and has been awarded 24 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points as part of Course Accreditation by the RCS England

Day 1: Lecture presentations

One day of lectures covering the difficult key topics you need to know for the exam.
The lectures will focus on important areas of the syllabus that regularly appear in the FRCS (Tr&Orth) exam.
 
Day 2: Small group viva practice
This will reinforce key topics and allows for small group viva teaching of A list viva topics with feedback.Includes basic science,children,trauma,adult and pathology and upper limb sections.
 
Day 3: Small group viva practice

Day 4 Clinical examination lectures and simulation
This day will cover a series of clinical examination lectures and cases that candidates may come across with the new clinical examination viva day format of the exam.Feedback will involve detailed explanations of how to examine for a particular condition ,what should candidates look for in the clinical pictures ,how they would perform a particular test and the significance of a positive test
 
Day 5: Mock Viva Day  for the FRCS (Tr&Orth) (Ring the bell)
The format closely mimics the real viva examination and has ecellent feedback from previous candidates.
 
Day 6:Advanced Clinical Examination Course for the FRCS (Tr&Orth)
The advanced clinical examination course will take the form of a mock clinical examination with both short and intermediate cases. This will involve real patients with real clinical signs. No medical students or actors!

 

Start End Description Speaker
07:00 07:15 Registration
07:15 07:30 Welcome and introduction
07:30 09:00 Soft tissue Knee ACL and other ligaments PF Instability Dislocated knee Meniscal tears
09:00 10:00 Biomechanics Free Body Diagrams
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 11:30 Corrosion Lubrication
11:30 12:30 Arthroplasty knee Primary knee arthroplasty Uni knee Patellofemoral replacement Osteotomy Revision knee surgery
12:30 13:00 FRCS Drawings and Memory aids
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:00 Spine Degenerate spinal pathology, tumours and infection
15:00 16:00 Trauma lower limb adult 1
16:00 16:30 Coffee/Tea
16:30 18:00 Spine Trauma Deformity
18:00 19:00 Basic science Statistics and Evidence based medicine
19:00 20:00 Trauma critical conditions
20:00 20:00 End

 

Start End Description Speaker
08:00 09:00 Round 1 Small group viva teaching
09:00 10:00 Round 2 Small group viva teaching
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 11:30 Round 3 Small group viva teaching
11:30 12:30 Round 4 Small group viva teaching
12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:30 Round 5 Small group viva teaching
14:30 15:30 Round 6 Small group viva teaching
15:30 16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00 17:00 Round 7 Small group viva teaching
17:00 18:00 Round 8 Small group viva teaching
18:30 18:30 Close

 

Start End Description Speaker
08:00 09:00 Round 1 Small group viva teaching
09:00 10:00 Round 2 Small group viva teaching
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 11:30 Round 3 Small group viva teaching
11:30 12:30 Round 4 Small group viva teaching
12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:30 Round 5 Small group viva teaching
14:30 15:30 Round 6 Small group viva teaching
15:30 16:00 Coffee/Tea
16:00 17:00 Round 7 Small group viva teaching
17:00 18:00 Round 8 Small group viva teaching
18:00 18:00 Close

 

Start End Description Speaker
07:45 08:00 Introduction Clinical coaching session
08:00 09:00 Diagnosis specific examination of the Hip
09:00 10:00 Diagnosis specific examination of the Knee
10:00 10:30 Coffee
10:30 11:30 Diagnosis specific examination of the Foot and Ankle
11:30 12:30 Diagnosis specific examination of the Spine
12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:30 Diagnosis specific examination of the Shoulder
14:30 15:00 Diagnosis specific examination of the Elbow
15:00 16:00 Diagnosis specific examination of the Hand/Wrist
16:00 16:30 Coffee/Tea
16:30 17:30 Diagnosis specific examination of the Peripheral Nerves
17:00 17:30 Examination of the Brachial Plexus
17:30 18:00 Lumps and bumps for the FRCS(Tr&Orth) exam
18:00 19:00 Video quiz
19:00 19:15 Feedback and closing session
19:15 19:15 End

 

Start End Description Speaker
08:00 08:30 Welcome by Course Director
08:30 09:00 Oral Viva Video
09:00 11:00 Oral Viva Practice I (4 Stations)
11:00 11:30 Coffee /Tea
11:30 13:00 Oral Viva practice 2 (3 Stations)
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 15:30 Oral Viva Practice 3 (3 stations)    
16:00 17:00 Oral Viva Practice IV (2 stations)
17:00 17:15 Feedback and Closing session 

 

Start End Description Speaker
08:45 09:00 Welcome from Course Director
09:00 09:30 Coffee /Tea Organisation into examination groups
09:30 13:00 Clinical Examination 1 10 stations 20 minutes each station 1 minute change around
13:00 14:00 Lunch
14:00 17:15 Clinical Examination 2 9 stations 20 minutes each station 1 minutes change around
17:15 17:30 Feedback and Closing session 

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