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We aim to break barriers, support diverse learners, and create a scalable, world leading platform that is adaptable to new regions, specialties, and technologies ensuring excellence, now and for future generations of surgeons

We empower surgeons at every stage of their careers with innovative tools that provide personalised learning and lifelong professional development.

We offer an extensive collection of questions and model answers written by experts and aimed at enhancing the learning experience of those preparing for the Intercollegiate Specialty Board Examination FRCS, Section 2, VIVA examination in General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Trauma & Orthopaedics, with Urology, Plastics Surgery and other specialties coming soon…

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Our team that has made this possible
Sorena Afshar

Sorena Afshar

Surgical Minds Founder

Consultant Colorecteral Surgeon

Ben Griffiths

Ben Griffiths

General Surgery Editor

Consultant Colorecteral Surgeon

Deena Harji

Deena Harji

General Surgery Contributor

Assoc Prof & Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Robert Thomas

Robert Thomas

General Surgery Contributor

Consultant Breast Surgeon

Fadlo Shaban

Fadlo Shaban

General Surgery Contributor

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Jennifer Downs

Jennifer Downs

General Surgery Contributor

Consultant Endocrine Surgeon

Andrew F. Alalade

Andrew F. Alalade

Neurosurgery Author

Consultant Neurosurgeon

Orthopaedic Academy

Orthopaedic Academy

Orthopaedics Section Collaborator

Providers in high quality education courses

"Extremely useful for FRCS viva preparation. I would highly recommend."

Mootaz Elhusseini Y. on General Surgery

User Review on 28/05/2024

"Excellent resource Exam-oriented and good terms to remember"

Umair on General Surgery

User Review on 05/02/2023

"very real uptodate exam Qs."

Ahmed A. on General Surgery

User Review on 14/03/2022

"Highly recommended especially for colorectal trainees. Also very useful in terms of how you should structure your answer and support your answer with evidence from recent trials etc."

Mohamed R. on General Surgery

User Review on 28/02/2022

"Excellent resource for FRCS part 2 preperation. Highly recommended. Would be good to keep it updates and continue to add more scenarios."

Hasham C. on General Surgery

User Review on 26/02/2022

"Good quality literature."

Saqib M. on General Surgery

User Review on 12/02/2022

"It was very useful and very practical revision. It is quite exhaustive specially for colorectal."

Dimple S. on General Surgery

User Review on 03/09/2021

"This final viva exam is technique with relevant knowledge that can be delivered within the time limit for the case. With respect to this, the frcsviva website content helped me a lot in structuring my answer, key phrases and revision just before my exams. As a non training overseas candidate I found this site very useful."

Natarajan Angamuthu on General Surgery

User Review on 17/07/2021

"It was really very helpful scenarios and I would strongly recommend to study these scenarios before exams."

Ali C. on General Surgery

User Review on 17/11/2020

"Absolutely worth it! Thank you!"

Amalachukwu O. on General Surgery

User Review on 16/07/2020

"It is good concise but doesn’t cover the whole sub specialty"

Elrasheed A. on General Surgery

User Review on 23/02/2020

"Excellent resource. I just got my results and had a positive feedback from the examiners. I would recommend this to anyone preparing for the exam."

nikhil nanjappa b. on General Surgery

User Review on 18/02/2020

"Ali"

Ali Muhammad C. on General Surgery

User Review on 07/07/2019

"Good additional resource that I used in the last few days before the exam to give me something new to read."

Shelly on General Surgery

User Review on 19/09/2018

"Good additional question bank to supplement other revision. Excellent customer service with very prompt response when I had an issue with accessing the resource."

Shelly on General Surgery

User Review on 16/09/2018

"Good, relevant questions for preparation for the FRCS viva."

Annabel S. on General Surgery

User Review on 01/09/2018

"Great questions, tailored specifically for surgical viva, well structured, would definitely recommend it!"

AA on General Surgery

User Review on 15/05/2018

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