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
- Chapter 3 Hip
- Chapter 4 Knee
- Chapter 5 Foot and ankle
- Chapter 6 Spine
- Chapter 7 Shoulder
- Chapter 8 Elbow
- Section 3 Trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
Chapter 3 - Hip
from Section 2 - Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
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
- Chapter 3 Hip
- Chapter 4 Knee
- Chapter 5 Foot and ankle
- Chapter 6 Spine
- Chapter 7 Shoulder
- Chapter 8 Elbow
- Section 3 Trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
Summary
There has been a change in emphasis in the oral questions in the last 2 years to higher-order thinking and judgement. Exam revision should be less book reading and more being practical and adept at managing complex clinical conditions. Examiners would argue if you have been well trained in the basics it isn’t too difficult to apply these basic principles to various clinical situations that you may be tested on in the oral exam. If you haven’t managed periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) then it’s going to be doubly difficult to answer the real-life practical questions that are related to managing a patient with this condition.
We have aimed the candidates’ answers for a 7–8 score, so they are significantly more detailed than what would be required for a bare pass. Aiming for the minimum to pass will generally be unsuccessful and is not recommended.
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- Postgraduate OrthopaedicsViva Guide for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination, pp. 17 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019