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Chapter 11 - Lower limb trauma II

from Section 3 - Trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2019

By
Will Eardley ,
Mohammed Al-Maiyah  and
Patrick Williams
Edited by
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz  and
Deiary F. Kader
Paul A. Banaszkiewicz
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Deiary F. Kader
Affiliation:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
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Summary

Alexander Suvorov would have done well in the trauma viva section of the FRCS Tr & Orth. Two citations attributed to him underpin the approach to the exam: Train hard, fight easy and He who is afraid is half beaten. Approach and strategy is everything and this comes from a combination of practice and knowledge acquisition. It is a time-dependent chess match where every move will be undertaken in a specified time, but in a sequence that is out of your control. Keep this analogy as you attempt different clinical scenarios. It is not only knowing the subject that is important, but also imparting it in an appropriate fashion, flexibly so that you can tell the examiners what they want to hear.

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Postgraduate Orthopaedics
Viva Guide for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination
 , pp. 230 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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