Published: 15/08/2019

Blueprint of the Primary FRCA examination mapped against the core level units of training

Unit of Training

MCQ

OSCE

SOE 1 

SOE 2

Preoperative assessment

√**

Premedication

Induction of general anaesthesia

Intra-operative care 

Postoperative and recovery room care

Perioperative management of emergency patients

Transfer medicine

 

 

Management of respiratory and cardiac arrest in adults and children

Control of infection

√***

Academic and research

 

√*

 

 

Airway management

 

Critical incidents

 

Day surgery

General, urological and gynaecological surgery

 

Head, neck, maxillo-facial and dental surgery

 

Intensive care medicine

Non-theatre

 

Obstetrics

Orthopaedic surgery

 

Sedation

Paediatrics including child protection

Pain medicine

Perioperative medicine

Regional

Trauma and stabilisation

 

Anatomy

 

 

Physiology and biochemistry

√***

Pharmacology

√***

Physics and Clinical measurement

 

Statistical methods

 

 

OSCE: *                Communicates risk information, and risk-benefit trade-offs, in ways appropriate for individual patients.

SOE1: **              All the drugs patients may be on preoperatively. SOE2: *** Partially covered