“Comprehensive & exam-focused”
The Oxford Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review Course (UK) is a five day orthopaedic review course, which is followed by the optional two day Advanced Clinical Examination & Viva Course.
All lecturers will be experienced Consultants or Fellows with the FRCS (Tr & Orth) examination who have been selected for their extensive teaching experience and good communication skills; the majority will be Fellowship trained specifically in the lectures that they are delivering.
Our acclaimed lecture course will take place in-person between 3rd-7th January 2022 inclusive. Delegates will have have the ability engage in discussions with lecturers throughout each session.
The Clinical Examination Day and Viva Preparation Days will be held at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. The weekend will commence with a series of seminars delivered by our expert faculty, covering all examination skills required for the FRCS. Following this, delegates will rotate around short- and long-case stations, examining patients with real pathology and gaining feedback from our course examiners. The Viva Preparation day will consist of multiple Viva Voce stations delegates will rotate around over the course of the day, allowing them to receive personalised feedback.
The programme for the January 2021 course can be found below, which was held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You can expect the same calibre of faculty members and content covered during our next, in-person course in January 2022. The finalised timetable will be confirmed closer to the course.
Join us in January 2022!
Day 1
| 07.30 | Welcome & Registration | Tom Cosker – Course Director |
| 08.00 | Spine (I) | Pal Lakshmanan – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 10.00 | Coffee | |
| 10.30 | Spine (II) | Pal Lakshmanan – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 12.00 | Soft Tissue: Knee | Guido Geutjens – Consultant Knee & Arthroplasty Surgeon |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Knee Arthroplasty | Guido Geutjens – Consultant Knee & Arthroplasty Surgeon |
| 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Adult Hip (I) | Simon Newman – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Adult Hip (II) | Simon Newman – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 18.30 | Infection in Orthopaedics for the FRCS | Abtin Alvand – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 20.00 | Close |
Day 2
| 07.30 | Spinal Deformity | Colin Nnadi – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 08.30 | Paediatric Trauma | David Bryson – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 09.30 | Biomechanics | Richie Gill – Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| 10.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.00 | Anatomy: The Upper Limb | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 12.00 | Orthopaedic Oncology (I) | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Orthopaedic Oncology (II) | Duncan Whitwell – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Shoulder & Brachial Plexus | Peter Dacombe – Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Radiology for the FRCS (Orth) | Karen Partington – Consultant MSK Radiologist |
| 19.00 | Close |
Day 3
| 08.00 | Hands (I) | Donald Sammut/Ramon Tahmassebi – Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeons |
| 09.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Hands (II) | Donald Sammut Ramon Tahmassebi – Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeons |
| 11.00 | Coffee | |
| 11.30 | Orthopaedic Rehabilitation | David Henderson Slater – Consultant in Neurological Disability |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Foot & Ankle Trauma | Arul Ramasamy – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Paediatric Orthopaedics (I) |
Fergal Monsell – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon Nev Davies – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Amr Elkhouly – Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Break | |
| 18.00 | Paediatric Orthopaedics (II) |
Fergal Monsell – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon Nev Davies – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Amr Elkhouly – Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 19.30 | Close |
Day 4
| 08.00 | Trauma (I) | Professor Chris Moran – Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery |
| 09.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Trauma (II) | Ben Ollivere – Clinical Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery |
| 11.00 | Deformity & Infection | Jamie Ferguson – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 12.00 | Foot and Ankle (I) | Steve L. Haddad – Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Chicago |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Foot & Ankle (II) | Steve L. Haddad – Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Chicago |
| 16.00 | Coffee | |
| 16.30 | Revision Hip Arthroplasty | Duncan Whitwell – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 18.00 | Revision Knee Arthroplasty | Duncan Whitwell – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 19.30 | Course Closure |
Day 5
The Advanced Clinical Examination Course starts at 0845 with a series of focussed lectures from our examiners, as to how they would perform an examination of each joint and how to perfect examination technique.
| 08:50 | Top Tips for the FRCS | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford |
| 09.00 | Examination of the Hip | Scott Evans – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham |
| 10.00 | Examination of the Knee | Scott Evans – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham |
| 11.00 | Examination of the Shoulder & Brachial Plexus | Peter Dacombe – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Great Western Hospital, Swindon |
| 12.00 | Examination of the Hand & Wrist | Alex Bolt – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Examination of the Spine | Nik Pyrovolou – Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals |
| 15.00 | Examination of the Foot & Ankle | Mark Rogers – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals |
| 15.45 | Examination of the Paediatric Patient | Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals |
| 16.30 | Closing Remarks | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford |
Join us for our next Oxford FRCS Review Course!
Places are strictly limited, so don’t delay!