The FRCS curriculum (updated 2021) includes the following topics.
General surgery of childhood
Groin
- Inguinal hernia
- Hydrocoele
- Undescended testis
- Penile conditions
- Acute scrotum
Abdominal wall pathologies
- Umbilical hernia
- Supra-umbilical hernia
- Epigastric hernia
Skin lesions
- Pilomatrixoma
- Dermoid cyst
- Sebaceous cyst
- Lymph nodes
Head and neck lesions
- Thyroglossal cyst
- Branchial cysts and remnants
- Vascular tumours and malformations
- Vascular anomalies
- Pathophysiology
- Differential diagnosis
- Indications and outcome of therapy
- Cystic hygroma
Vascular access
- Technical skills for vascular access
- Anatomy and anomalies
- PD catheter and insertion
Emergency Paediatric Surgery
- Pyloric stenosis
- Intussusception
- Appendicitis
- Abdominal pain
General topics in Paediatric Surgery
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Gastroesophageal reflux
- Constipation
- GI bleeding
- Intestinal obstruction
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Child safeguarding
- Principles of consent
- Child abuse
- Principles and legal duty
- Referral
- Imaging
Liver
- Short bowel syndrome
- Liver disease
- Biliary atresia
- Choledochal cyst
- Kasai Procedure
- Spleen
Neonatal surgery
- Oesophageal atresia and tracheosophageal fistula
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Intestinal atresia
- Pyloric atresia
- Duodenal atresia
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Colonic atresia
- Rectal atresia
- Duplication anomalies
- Meconium ileus
- Malrotation
- Hirschprungs disease
- Anorectal malformation
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Neonatal abdominal wall defects: gastroschisis
- Neonatal abdominal wall defects: exomphalos
- Disorders of sex development
- Antenatal management
Oncology
- Tumour biopsy
- Wilms tumour
- Neuroblastoma
- Hepatoblastoma
- Soft tissue tumours
- Haematological malignancy
- Leukaemia
- Lymphoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Benign tumours
- Benign ovarian tumour
- Other Adrenal tumours
- Thyroid tumours
- Parathyroid disease
- Sacrococcygeall teratoma
Endocrine disease and Breast
- Diabetes
- Disorders of growth
- Disorders of sex development
- Thyroid
- Breast presentations in childhood
Thoracic surgery
- Chest wall anomalies
- Pectus carinatum
- Pectus excavatum
- Poland syndrome
- Congenital lung anomalies
- CPAM: congenital pulmonary airway anomalies
- Bronchopulmonary sequestration
- Congenital lobar emphysema
- Acquired lung anomalies
- Pneumonia and empyema
- Inhaled foreign body
- Tracheal anomalies
- Trachoomalacia
- Tracheostomy
- Aortopexy
Urology
- Urinary tract infection
- Haematuria
- Problems of the urethral meatus
- Hypospadias
- Upper tract obstruction: Vesico-ureteric junction
- Upper tract obstruction: Pelvi-ureteruc junction
- Posterior urethral valves
- Urinary tract calculus disease
- Bladder dysfunction
- Neurogenic bladder
- Overactive bladder
- Renal failure
- Bladder extrophy
- Epispadias
- Duplication of the urinary tract
- Vesico-ureteric reflux
- Urethral anomalies
Neurosurgery
- Referral
- Hydrocephalus
- Spins bifida
- Basic principles of management
- Impact on health
- Referral
- Traumatic brain injury
Operative care
- Pre
- Intra
- Post
Related specialty knowledge
- Cardiac Surgery : Major conditions, impact on health condition, referral
- Orthopaedic Surgery : Referral
- Plastic Surgery : Referral
- Opthalmology : Referral
- ENT: Referral
- Transplantation: Basic principles of transplantation and referral
Trauma
- Initial management
- Referral
- Thoracic
- Abdominal
- Head
National Health Service
- Structure and function of management of NHS
- Trust , health authority managerial structures
- Leadership
- Supporting training
- Interview process
Research and governance
Mandatory research governance course