Autumn Rights Medical Guide 2019
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SURGERY<br />
POSTGRADUATE ORTHOPAEDICS<br />
Viva <strong>Guide</strong> for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination<br />
Second edition<br />
Edited by Paul A. Banaszkiewicz<br />
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead<br />
and Deiary F. Kader<br />
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead<br />
October <strong>2019</strong><br />
246 x 189 mm c.790pp<br />
665 b/w illus. 198 colour<br />
illus. 59 tables<br />
978-1-108-72215-5 Paperback<br />
£69.99<br />
Develop an aptitude for defining key topics, features and processes, vital for<br />
your FRCS (Tr&Orth) Viva exam success, with this newly updated and detailed<br />
guide. This new edition expertly delivers invaluable insights into tactics<br />
and planning, for candidates to sharpen exam skills, and gain confidence.<br />
Thoroughly updated to include an expanded basic science section, to answer<br />
all of your viva questions, this guide also supplies candidates with new<br />
illustrations and exam-specific diagrams; adapting to meet the expectations<br />
of a constantly changing syllabus. Vital for orthopaedic surgeons in training,<br />
this forward-looking text includes a drawing chapter, for candidates to<br />
practise creating succinct, exam-style illustrations, before the exam itself.<br />
Proactive in its approach, this book addresses the balance between trauma,<br />
general orthopaedics and basic science; by editors with extensive national and<br />
international experience of preparing candidates for the FRCS(Tr & Orth).<br />
WHY IT WILL SELL<br />
• Thoroughly updated with an expanded basic science<br />
section that answers all candidates’ viva questions<br />
• Designed and written by experts in orthopaedic surgery<br />
• Includes newly updated and current illustrations, to<br />
reinforce learning points and better replicate the viva<br />
scenario<br />
• Includes a drawing-specific chapter, for candidates to<br />
practise drawing succinct exam-style illustrations<br />
NEW TO THIS EDITION<br />
• Focuses on trauma material, polytrauma and open fracture<br />
management due to the emergence of MTCs<br />
• Presents the significant changes in practice in use of<br />
metal on metal bearing surfaces, and the cement versus<br />
uncemented hip fixation debate continues to rage on<br />
• Includes diagrams which have been more professionally<br />
drawn and more photographs added amongst the text<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral<br />
Examination: 1. General oral guidance; Part II. Adult Elective Orthopaedics and<br />
Spine: 2. Hip structured oral questions; 3. Knee structured oral questions; 4.<br />
Foot and ankle structured oral questions; 5. Spine structured oral questions; 6.<br />
Shoulder and elbow structured oral questions; 7. Orthopaedic oncology; Part<br />
III. Trauma: 8. Lower limb; 9. Upper limb; 10. Pelvic and spinal trauma; Part IV.<br />
Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb: 11. Hand and upper limb; 12.<br />
Children’s orthopaedics; Part V. Applied Basic Sciences: 13. Anatomy and surgical<br />
approaches; 14. Pathology; 15. Biomaterials and biomechanics; 16. Tissues<br />
of the musculoskeletal system; 17. Evidence based practice; 18. Imaging and<br />
investigative techniques; Part VI. Diagrams for the FRCS (Tr & Orth): 19. Diagrams<br />
for the FRCS (Tr & Orth); Index.<br />
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br />
Level: specialist medical trainees, medical students<br />
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