“Comprehensive & exam-focused”
The Oxford Comprehensive Orthopaedic Review Course (UK) is a four day orthopaedic review course, which is followed by the optional 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.
After extensive discussions as a result of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, the OCORC 2021 Faculty has taken the difficult decision to not hold an in-person, physical course this year, but instead plan for a remote, online course. The safety of our delegates and faculty is of our paramount concern and the main difficulty is providing to be the number of delegates intending to travel from overseas, and also those in the UK with higher tier restrictions in place. We therefore intended to continue to run the course as per the usual programme as timetabled between 5th-9th January 2021, but streamed on Zoom. Delegates will have have the ability to ask questions at the end of each lecture and will have access to the lecture recording for a limited period of time following the lecture.
The Clinical Examination Day will include the programmed series of examination lectures and recordings of possible cases encountered in the FRCS examination. It will no longer be possible to run the Viva Examination day and our course fees have therefore been adjusted appropriately to reflect this.The programme for the January 2021 course will be released closer to the time. However, the timetable for the previous FRCS Review Course (January 2020) can be found below. You can expect the same calibre of faculty and range of topics covered at the next Review Course in January 2021.
Join us in January 2021!
Day 1
| 07.45 | 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 |
| 11.00 | 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) | Alex Ashmore & Simon Newman – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons |
| 17.30 | Adult Hip (II) | Alex Ashmore & Simon Newman – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons |
| 19.00 | Close |
Day 2
| 07.30 | Spinal Deformity | Colin Nnadi – Consultant Spinal Surgeon |
| 08.30 | Complex Reconstruction | Jamie Ferguson – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 10.00 | Coffee | |
| 10.20 | Paediatric Trauma | David Bryson – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 12.00 | Anatomy: The Upper Limb | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 | Orthopaedic Oncology (I) | Tom Cosker – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Shoulder & Brachial Plexus | Andy Tasker – Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Orthopaedic Oncology (II) | Duncan Whitwell – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon |
| 19.30 | Close |
Day 3
| 08.00 | Hands (I) | Nick Riley / Ramon Tahmassebi – Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeons |
| 09.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Hands (II) | Nick Riley / Ramon Tahmassebi – Consultant Hand & Wrist Surgeons |
| 11.00 | Break | |
| 11.30 | Radiology for the FRCS (Orth) | Karen Partington – Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 | Amputee Rehabilitation | David Henderson Slater – Consultant in Neurological Disability |
| 14.15 | Basic Science I & II | Jeya Palan – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Robert McCulloch – Senior Research Fellow, OUH/NDORMs Ben Ollivere – Clinical Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery |
| 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Paediatric Orthopaedics (I) | Fergal Monsell – Consultant Paediatric Surgeon |
| 17.30 | Break | |
| 18.00 | Paediatric Orthopaedics (II) | Nev Davies – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Amr Elkhouly – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alpesh Kotari – Consultant Paediatric 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 | Basic Science (III) | Ben Ollivere – Clinical Associate Professor of Trauma Surgery |
| 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 0830 with a series of short lectures from our examiners, as to how they would perform an examination of each joint. Then at around 1200, delegates will be split into small groups and will rotate around a circuit of examination stations with a patient to demonstrate on. The day will finish at around 16:30.
Stations include:
- Shoulder
- Spine
- Hand & Wrist
- Hip
- Foot & Ankle
- Brachial Plexus
- Knee
- Anatomy
Join us for our next COVID-secure Oxford FRCS Review Course!
Places are strictly limited, so don’t delay!