Book contents
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Chapter 19 Anatomy and surgical approaches
- Chapter 20 Structure and function of connective tissue
- Chapter 21 Design of implants and factors associated with implant failure (wear, loosening)
- Chapter 22 Orthotics and prosthetics
- Chapter 23 Pain, analgesia and anaesthesia
- Chapter 24 Musculoskeletal oncology
- Chapter 25 Tribology and biomaterials
- Chapter 26 Biomechanics
- Chapter 27 Genetics and cell biology
- Chapter 28 Diagnostics
- Chapter 29 Clinical environment
- Chapter 30 Statistics and evidence-based practice
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
Chapter 28 - Diagnostics
from Section 5 - Applied Basic Sciences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Chapter 19 Anatomy and surgical approaches
- Chapter 20 Structure and function of connective tissue
- Chapter 21 Design of implants and factors associated with implant failure (wear, loosening)
- Chapter 22 Orthotics and prosthetics
- Chapter 23 Pain, analgesia and anaesthesia
- Chapter 24 Musculoskeletal oncology
- Chapter 25 Tribology and biomaterials
- Chapter 26 Biomechanics
- Chapter 27 Genetics and cell biology
- Chapter 28 Diagnostics
- Chapter 29 Clinical environment
- Chapter 30 Statistics and evidence-based practice
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
Summary
In the FRCS (Tr & Orth) structured oral exam, most candidates will have anticipated the possibility of being asked a radiology topic and would have (wisely) prepared for this. While candidates will be asked bits and pieces of radiology during a topic discussion the assumption that a stand-alone 5-minute radiology topic is probably too much detailed knowledge for the average candidate (and examiner) to stretch out discussion for is wrong. We know candidates who have had very detailed questioning on the principles of either bone scans or MRI scanners lasting the full 5 minutes of a viva. Bone and MRI scanners would seem to be the most obvious questions that candidates would be asked, although a discussion about X-rays is also fair game. Sometimes, the examiner may put all of them in front of you (X-ray/ultrasound/CT/MRI/bone scan images) and give you a choice to speak on any one of them. A candidate scoring 6 would start to run out of steam at 3 minutes or struggle if they are seriously probed about the topic in detail. A bit depends on the examiner themselves on how much they really do understand the subject in depth, but you are gambling a bit with this one.
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- Postgraduate OrthopaedicsViva Guide for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination, pp. 650 - 680Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019