“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 2nd-6th January 2023 inclusive. Delegates will have have the ability engage in discussions with lecturers throughout each session.
The Clinical Examination Day and Viva Preparation Days will also be held at the Pembroke College, Oxford in 2023. 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 2023 course can be found below. This timetable is subject to change due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Join us in January 2023!
Day 1: Monday 2nd Jan (Online)
| 13:00 | Joining | |
| 14:00 | Hand & Wrist Anatomy | |
| 14:30 | How the Hand Works | |
| 15:30 | Bone Cement for the FRCS Orth | |
| 16:00 | Knee Trauma | |
| 17:00 | Periprosthetic Fractures Hip | |
| 17:30 | Periprosthetic Fractures Knee | |
| 18:00 | Peripheral Nerve Injury | |
| 18:30 | Biomechanics of THR |
Day 2: Tuesday 3rd Jan
| 07.30 | Welcome & Registration | Tom Cosker – Course Director |
| 08.00 | Spine (I) – Elective and Trauma | Pal Lakshmanan – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 10.00 | Coffee | |
| 10.30 | Spine (II) – Elective and Trauma | Pal Lakshmanan – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 11.30 | Coffee | |
| 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 | All you need to know about bone | Professor Kassim Javaid – Consultant in Metabolic Medicine |
| 17.00 | Adult Hip | Simon Newman & Adrian Taylor – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons |
| 20.00 | Close |
Day 3: Wednesday 4th Jan
| 07.30 | Spinal Deformity | Colin Nnadi – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 08.30 | Paediatric Trauma | David Bryson – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 09.30 | Anatomy: The Upper Limb | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 10.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.00 | Radiology for the FRCS (Orth) | Karen Partington – Consultant MSK Radiologist |
| 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 | Foot & Ankle Trauma | Arul Ramasamy – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 19.00 | Close |
Day 4: Thursday 5th Jan
| 08.00 | Trauma (I) | Ben Ollivere – Clinical Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery |
| 09.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Trauma (II) | Ben Ollivere – Clinical Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery |
| 11.00 | Break | |
| 11.30 | Lower Limb Anatomy | Ather Siddiqi – Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Liaquat National Hospital, Pakistan |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Deformity & Infection | Jamie Ferguson – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Paediatric Orthopaedics (I) | Fergal Monsell – Consultant Paediatric SurgeonNev Davies – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Break | |
| 18.00 | Paediatric Orthopaedics (II) | Fergal Monsell – Consultant Paediatric SurgeonNev Davies – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon |
| 19.30 | Close |
Day 5: Friday 6th Jan
| 08.00 | Hands (I) | Nick Riley – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 09.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Hands (II) | Ben Ollivere – Clinical Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery |
| 11.00 | Biomechanics | Professor Richie Gill – Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| 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 | Statistics for the FRCS | Paul Cool – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Revision Hip & Knee Arthroplasty | Duncan Whitwell – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 19.30 | Course Closure |
Day 6: Saturday 7th Jan
The Advanced Clinical Examination Course starts at 0845 in Pembroke College, Oxford 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.
| 09:00 | Top Tips for the New Format FRCS | Ather Siddiqi – Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford |
| 09.15 | Examination of the Paediatric Patient | Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals |
| 10.00 | Examination of the Foot and Ankle | Arul Ramasamy – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 11.10 | Examination of the Wrist and Hand | Alex Bolt – Consultant Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford |
| 12.20 | Examination of the Knee | Ather Siddiqi – Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 | Examination of the Hip | Sherif Isaac – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 14.30 | Examination of the Shoulder | Pete Dacombe – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 15.45 | Examination of the Brachial Plexus | Pete Dacombe – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 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!