Miller's Orthopaedic Review Course Programme

The Millers Orthopaedic Review Course (UK) is a four day orthopaedic review course, which is followed by the optional Adv. 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.

The following is our Jan 2012 timetable to give you a better understanding of what's covered on the course. Our Jan 2013 timetable will be finalised and announced in due course:

Orthopaedic Review FRCS Course Timetable: Day 1

08.15	Welcome	Course Director, Tom Cosker
08.30	Hands 1	Ramon Tahmassebi, Clinical Fellow
10.00	Coffee
10.20	Hands 2	Ramon Tahmassebi, Clinical Fellow
11.45	Shoulder	Tom Cosker, Clinical Fellow
13.00	Lunch
13.45	Anatomy 1	Professor Vishy Mahadevan, Anatomist
15.30	Coffee
15.45	Anatomy 2	Professor Vishy Mahadevan, Anatomist
17.30	Thinking About Knee Arthoplasty: Cases You Must Know	Simon West, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
	Presentation by Humphrey & Co
20.00	Anatomy Quiz	Alex Ashmore, Specialist Orthopaedic Registrar
22.00	Close

Orthopaedic Review FRCS Course Timetable: Day 2

08.00	Tumours 1	Duncan Whitwell, Consultant Orthopaedic Tumour Surgeon
10.00	Coffee
10.15	Tumours 2	Duncan Whitwell, Consultant Orthopaedic Tumour Surgeon
11.30	Coffee
11.45	Soft Tissue Knee	Guido Geutjens, Consultant Knee and Arthroplasty Surgeon
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Hip 1	John Morley, Consultant Hip and Arthroplasty Surgeon
15.30	Coffee
15.45	Hip 2	Paul Banaszkiewicz, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
17.15	Coffee
17.30	Trauma	Stuart Matthews, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
19.30	Paediatric Trauma	David Noyes, Consultant Trauma Surgeon

Orthopaedic Review FRCS Course Timetable: Day 3

07.15	Spinal Deformity	Colin Nnadi, Consultant Spinal Surgeon
08.15	Knee Arthoplasty	Will Jackson, Consultant Knee and Arthroplasty Surgeon
10.15	Coffee
10.30	Basic Science 1	Richie Gill, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford
11.30	Coffee
11.40	Basic Science 2	Omar Sabri, Clinical Fellow
12.40	Lunch
13.25	Basic Science 3	Fazal Ali, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
14.25	Basic Science 4	Sherief Elsayed
15.25	Coffee
15.40	Statistics	David Beard, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford
17.00	Coffee
17.15	Rehabilitation	David Henderson Slater, Consultant in Orthpaedic Rehabilitation
18.15	Tips & Tricks	Adrian Taylor, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Orthopaedic Review FRCS Course Timetable: Day 4

07.30	Spine	Pal Lakshmanan, Consultant Spinal Surgeon
09.15	Coffee
09.30	Paediatrics 1	Fergal Monsell, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
10.30	Coffee
10.45	Paediatrics 2	Mrs Rachel Buckingham, Consultant Orthopaedic Paediatric Surgeon
11.45	Paediatrics 3	Talal Ibrahim, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
12.45	Lunch
13.45	Trauma	Professor Chris Moran, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma
15.30	Coffee
15.45	Sports Lower Extremity and Training Room	Professor Mark D Miller, MD, Consultant Surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
16.45	Coffee
17.00	Foot & Ankle	Steve L. Haddad, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Chicago
19.00	Adjourn
19.30	Pre Dinner Drinks Reception
20.00	Course Dinner
21.30	The History of the Miller Orthopaedic Review Course & After Dinner Speech	Professor Mark D Miller
22.30	Close

 

Advanced Clinical Examination Course

The Advanced Clinical Examination Course will be entirely focused on Advanced Clinical Examination, and will consist of stations as follows, demonstrating the examination of each joint with common clinical scenarios:

• Shoulder and Elbow
• Hand
• Spine
• Hip
• Knee
• Foot and Ankle
• Radiology

Approx 40 minutes per station, all candidates rotating through each.

Morning session: examiners demonstrate each system and how they expect it to be examined.

Late morning and afternoon: rotation around the stations with no more than 8 candidates per station being watched and critiqued by examiner. No patients; purely focused on examination technique.

08.30	Examination of the Shoulder and Elbow
09.00	Examination of the Spine
09.30	Examination of the Hand
10.10	Coffee
10.30	Examination of the Knee
11.00	Examination of the Hip
11.30	Examination of the Foot & Ankle
12.00	Imaging in Orthopaedics
12.30	Rotation through Stations
13.20	Lunch
14.00	Rotation through Stations
16.40	Close

Viva for FRCS (Orth) Course

The Viva for FRCS (Orth) Course will be entirely dedicated to Viva. The Miller VIVA course is designed to cover the key topics which will be examined in the FRCS (Tr & Orth) examinations. There will be small groups (with no more than 5 people in each viva group, so there will be plenty of time to answer questions) and candidates will rotate (typically) through the following stations during the day:

• Adult Pathology 1
• Adult Pathology 2
• Adult Pathology 3
• Adult Pathology 4
• Hands 1
• Hands 2
• Paediatrics 1
• Paediatrics 2
• Basic Science 1
• Basic Science 2
• Trauma 1
• Trauma 2
• Trauma 3
• Spine 1
• Spine 2

Examiners will allow all canidates adequate opporunity to formulate and pratice their answers.

Participants may also be interested to note that previous candidates say they have learnt as much from others being examined as being examined themselves. Participants will be encouraged to participate using up to date educational techniques i.e. focusing on what other candidates did well, how they might improve etc.

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