2nd Edition

Cracking the Intercollegiate General Surgery FRCS Viva 2e A Revision Guide

Edited By Tjun Tang, Elizabeth O'Riordan, Stewart Walsh Copyright 2020
    546 Pages
    by CRC Press

    546 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Cracking the Intercollegiate General Surgery FRCS Viva: A Revision Guide 2e provides the framework and knowledge to pass the non-subspecialty sections of the FRCS (General Surgery) viva and clinical examination. This comprehensive and up to date revision text covers all essential topics in critical care, emergency and general surgery as well as research papers, basic statistics and data manipulation for the academic section.This essential revision guide provides you with the vital points for each topic, presented in a concise, structured manner and referenced where appropriate. It is essential reading for anyone preparing for the FRCS General Surgery exam.

    1. Academic Viva
    2. Doireann Joyce, Stewart Walsh

    3. Breast
    4. Gaural Patel, Lucy Satherley, Animesh Patel, Georgina Phillips, and Elizabeth O’Riordan

    5. Colorectal
    6. Jennie Grainger, Steve Schlichtemeier, William Speake, Fung Joon Foo, Samson Tou and Frank McDermott

    7. Critical Care and Anaesthesia
    8. John Davidson, Avinash Gobindram, Prit Anand, Alex Joseph, Rajkumar Rajendram and Animesh Patel

    9. Hepatobiliary
    10. Teo Jin Yao, London Ooi

    11. Applied Surgical Anatomy
    12. Andrew Lee, Julian Wong, Karen Randhawa, CJ Shukla, Vishal Shelat, Choon Sheong Seow, Tjun Tang

    13. Vascular Surgery
    14. John Wang, Yiu-Che Chan, Julian Wong, Edward Choke, Tjun Tang

    15. Upper GI Surgery
    16. Nicola Tanner, Chris Collins

    17. Transplant Surgery
    18. David van Dellen, Zia Moinuddin, Hussein Khambalia and Brian K. P Goh

    19. Endocrine Surgery
    20. Emma Collins

    21. Emergency Surgery
    22. Aisling Hogan, Alastair Brookes, Rebecca Fish, Colin Walsh, Paul Sutton, Chelliah Selvasekar, Aoife Lowery, Ting Hway Wong, Thomas Konig, Fung Joon Foo, Yiu-Che Chan, John Wang, Choon Seong Seow and Vishal Shelat

    23. General Surgery
    24. Paul Sutton, Chelliah R Selvasekar, Aoife Lowery, Yew-Wei Tan, Thomas Tsang, Rebecca Fish, Seow Choon Sheong, Vishal Shelat, Frank McDermott, Aisling Hogan, Animesh Patel, and Georgina Philips  

    Biography

    Dr Tang Tjun Yip,MA (Cantab), MB BChir, MD, FRCS(Gen), FAMS

    Consultant, Singapore General Hospital

    Department of Vascular Surgery

    Dr Tang graduated from Queens' College in Cambridge, UK and qualified from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge in 2000 with a Distinction in Surgery. He trained on the higher surgical training program in East Anglia, UK and was awarded his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) by the University of Cambridge in 2009 for research into carotid plaque inflammation. Just after completion of surgical training in late 2012, he was awarded a prestigious Cook British Society of Endovascular Therapy (BSET) fellowship and undertook further endovascular training at Leicester Royal infirmary, UK and completing a postgraduate fellowship at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

    He was previously a Consultant in vascular and endovascular surgery at Changi General Hospital for the past 4 years. He has an active subspecialty interest in diabetic foot salvage, endovenous surgery and renal access. He has active research interests in endovenous surgery and outcome modeling in vascular surgery and has published widely on these subjects. He has over 140 peer - reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.