1. Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
DAVID STANLEY
Chairman
of the
Examination Board

2. Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
- Regulations
- Examination sections
- How the outcome is determined

3. Regulations - 3 Structured references - Section I 2 years 4 attempts
- Section II 4 attempts + 1 further exceptional attempt

4. Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Section I
- Single Best Answer
- Extended Matching Items
Section II
- Clinicals
- Orals

5. Section I Paper I Paper II - 2 hrs 15 mins - 100 single best answers
- 135 extended matching items

6. Section I Outcome - No negative marking - No specific pass mark
- Computer identification of poorly
performing questions
- Standard setting
- Modified Angoff Procedure

7. Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Section II
- Clinicals
- Orals

8. Section II Clinicals - 2 Intermediate cases (15mins)
- Short case upper limb (15mins)
- Short case lower limb (15mins)

9. Section II Orals - Trauma - Adult and pathology
- Paediatrics and hand (upper limb)
- Basic science

10. Section II Outcome - No specific % pass rate
- Each question scored by each
examiner from 4 – 8
- Need a score of 6 per
question to pass
- Total of 96 scoring episodes
- To pass need total score of 576

11. NH

12. NH