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25 - Candidates' accounts of the examination

from Section 9 - Miscellaneous topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2009

Paul A. Banaszkiewicz
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Deiary F. Kader
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Nicola Maffulli
Affiliation:
Keele University
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Summary

The exam has changed and evolved since these candidate accounts were first made. In particular, the short notes in the written paper have been superseded by the MCQ and EMI papers, but have been included here for completeness.

There are numerous candidate accounts of the examination floating around out in the orthopaedic domain. It is easy to get hold of them with a bit of detective work. When I sat the FRCS Orth examination these were very difficult to obtain. Initially these were secretly passed down from one trainee to another with many favours owed (a great deal of begging required) to obtain them and sworn secrecy not to pass them on to other candidates.

This moved up a level as these papers began to circulate amongst groups of trainees from various regions sitting the exam using them as a frame of reference for revision. After the group sat the exam they were then passed down to the trainees below them preparing to sit the examination.

These papers began to find their way on to the Internet and now BOTA has a dedicated examination site, which contains numerous past papers of candidates.

These candidate accounts can go on and on and miss the point. They give the candidate a much better guide as to which areas to concentrate revision on than the official syllabus (which can be somewhat vague in places). They are however just a frame of reference, albeit a very useful revision tool.

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Postgraduate Orthopaedics
The Candidate's Guide to the FRCS (TR & Orth) Examination
, pp. 569 - 586
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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