Develop an aptitude for defining key topics, features and processes, vital for your FRCS (Tr&Orth) Viva exam success, with this newly updated and detailed guide. This new edition expertly delivers invaluable insights into tactics and planning, for candidates to sharpen exam skills, and gain confidence. Thoroughly updated to include an expanded basic science section, to answer all of your viva questions, this guide also supplies candidates with new illustrations and exam-specific diagrams adapting to meet the expectations of a constantly changing syllabus. Vital for orthopaedic surgeons in training, this forward-looking text includes a drawing chapter, for candidates to practise creating succinct, exam-style illustrations, before the exam itself. Proactive in its approach, this book addresses the balance between trauma, general orthopaedics and basic science by editors with extensive national and international experience of preparing candidates for the FRCS(Tr & Orth).

- Thoroughly updated with an expanded basic science section that answers all candidates"" viva questions
- Designed and written by experts in orthopaedic surgery
- Includes newly updated and current illustrations, to reinforce learning points and better replicate the viva scenario
- Includes a drawing-specific chapter, for candidates to practise drawing succinct exam-style illustrations

CONTENTS:
Part I. The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination:
1. General oral guidance
Part II. Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine:
2. Hip structured oral questions
3. Knee structured oral questions
4. Foot and ankle structured oral questions
5. Spine structured oral questions
6. Shoulder and elbow structured oral questions
7. Orthopaedic oncology
Part III. Trauma:
8. Lower limb
9. Upper limb
10. Pelvic and spinal trauma
Part IV. Children""s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb:
11. Hand and upper limb
12. Children""s orthopaedics
Part V. Applied Basic Sciences:
13. Anatomy and surgical approaches
14. Pathology
15. Biomaterials and biomechanics
16. Tissues of the musculoskeletal system
17. Evidence based practice
18. Imaging and investigative techniques
Part VI. Diagrams for the FRCS (Tr & Orth):
19. Diagrams for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Authors:
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz is Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and North East Surgery Centre, Gateshead. Visiting Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Deiary F. Kader, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Deiary F. Kader is a knee arthroplasty and arthroscopy surgeon, humanitarian, academic, educationalist and a researcher at the academic unit, South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). He is also a specialist war trauma reconstruction surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Middle East.