Published: 09/09/2019

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

Unit of Training

MCQ

CRQ 

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

Perioperative medicine

Sedation

Paediatrics including child protection

Pain medicine

Regional

Trauma and stabilisation

Anatomy

 

Physiology and biochemistry

 

Pharmacology

 

Physics and Clinical measurement

 

 

Statistical methods