Part I. The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination: 1. General guidance Niall Breen, Benjamin W. T. Gooding and Jonathan R. A. Phillips; 2. What to read Jonathan R. A. Phillips and Benjamin W. T. Gooding; Part II. The Written Paper: 3. MCQ and EMI paper guidance Mark Dunbar and Andrew P. Sprowson; Part III. The Clinicals: 4. Introduction to clinical examination techniques Karen Robinson and Fazal Ali; 5. The short cases Andrew P. Sprowson and Mark Dunbar; 6. The intermediate cases Neil E. Jarvis, Puneet Monga and Stan Jones; 7. Shoulder clinical cases Yusuf Michla and David Cloke; 8. Elbow clinical cases Ramnadh S. Pulavarti, Mohan K. Pullagura and Charalambos P. Charalambous; 9. Hand and wrist clinical cases John E. D. Wright and John W. K. Harrison; 10. Spine clinical cases Prasad Karpe; 11. Hip clinical cases Suresh Thomas and Paul A. Banaszkiewicz; 12. Knee clinical cases Deiary F. Kader and Francois Tudor; 13. Foot and ankle clinical cases Rajesh Kakwani; 14. Paediatric clinical cases Sattar Alshryda and Philip Henman; Part IV. The General Orthopaedics and Pathology Oral: 15. General viva guidance Abhijit Bhosale and Stan Jones; 16. Hip oral core topics Sammy Hanna and Paul A. Banaszkiewicz; 17. Knee oral core topics Khaled M. Sarraf and Deiary F. Kader; 18. Foot and ankle oral core topics Kailash Devalia and Jane Madeley; 19. Spine oral core topics Joseph Butler and Alexander D. L. Baker; 20. Tumour oral core topics Thomas Beckingsale and Craig H. Gerrand; Part V. The Hand and Upper Limb Oral: 21. Hand oral core topics John W. K. Harrison and David R. Dickson; 22. Elbow oral core topics Asir Aster and Matthew Jones; 23. Shoulder oral core topics Matthew Jones and Asir Aster; 24. Brachial Plexus core topics Chye Yew Ng and David R. Dickson; Part VI. The Paediatric Oral: 25. Paediatric oral core topics Kathryn Williams and Antoine de Gheldere; Part VII. The Trauma Oral: 26. General principles, spine and pelvis William Eardley and Paul Fearon; 27. Upper limb trauma oral core topics Nirav K. Patel and Charalambos P. Charalambous; 28. Lower limb trauma oral topics Jonathan R. A. Phillips and Gunasekaran Kumar; 29. Applied trauma oral topics William Eardley, Paul Fearon and Jonathan R. A. Phillips; Part VIII. The Basic Science Oral: 30. Basic science oral topics Kevin P. Sherman; 31. Applied basic science oral topics Paul A. Banaszkiewicz and Stan Jones; Part IX. Miscellaneous Topics: 32. Surgical exposures oral core topics Jonathan Loughead and Anish Kadakia; 33. Anatomy for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Apurv Sinha and Fazal Ali; 34. SAS doctors and the FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam Ramnadh S. Pulavarti and Kevin P. Sherman; 35. Candidates' accounts of the examination Jibu J. Joseph and Shariff Hazarika; 36. Examination failure Andrew Port and Mike Reed.