Plastic Surgery (FRCS Plast Surg oral)
Sit your FRCS Plast Surg viva after rehearsing every answer out loud
Rehearse FRCS Plast Surg Plastic Surgery viva scenarios out loud against a senior examiner who probes your reasoning. Get examiner-style feedback on any station you finish, in seconds.
What is the FRCS Plast Surg viva, and how do you practise for it?
JCIE Intercollegiate Section 2 — three 30-minute orals sweeping burns, hand & upper-limb trauma, facial soft tissue and craniomaxillofacial trauma, lower-limb reconstruction, head & neck oncology and reconstruction, facial palsy, cleft lip & palate, craniofacial deformity, congenital hand and ear, breast & chest wall, perineal & GU reconstruction, pressure sores, generic techniques and complex wounds, aesthetics, skin cancer, sarcoma, vascular anomalies, and ethics / general professional capability. The Short Cases session, in which clinical scenarios are discussed without a patient, is included. The full exam also holds a 30-minute long case and a 30-minute medium case with patients present; those require examining a patient, so they are not simulated here. MedMock lets you practise it out loud against an AI examiner, with examiner-style feedback on any question you finish.
Last updated 29 October 2026
FRCS Plast Surg viva practice, on demand
MedMock gives you a senior examiner who probes your reasoning, available 24/7. Pick a question, have a spoken conversation, and ask for examiner-style feedback when you finish, scored against what genuinely matters in the FRCS Plast Surg.
How it works
Choose a question
Pick from the FRCS Plast Surg questions — all 4 that MedMock runs, or let MedMock surprise you the way exam day will.
Have the conversation
Speak naturally, out loud. The AI examiner listens, follows up and probes further, exactly like the viva.
Get instant feedback
The moment you finish, you get specific, examiner-style feedback and a score — what you did well, what cost you marks, and precisely what to fix before the next attempt.
Practise every station
MedMock covers the questions you will face in the FRCS Plast Surg viva. Rehearse each one until it feels routine.
Trauma / Burns / Adult Upper Limb
Anatomy, classification, clinical management, and operative principles across burns assessment & resuscitation, surgical management of burns and complications; all aspects of upper-limb trauma and chronic upper-limb pathology; facial soft tissue injuries, craniomaxillofacial trauma, and lower-limb trauma.
Acute Head & Neck Tumours / Congenital Anomalies / Trunk & Perineal Reconstruction
Anatomy, classification, clinical management, and operative principles across head & neck excisional surgery and major reconstruction, facial palsy; cleft lip and palate, craniofacial deformity, congenital hand deformity, congenital ear deformity; perineal and GU reconstruction including hypospadias, breast and chest wall reconstruction, and pressure sore management.
Generic Techniques, Complex Wounds, Vascular Anomalies & Aesthetics / Skin Cancer & Sarcoma / General Professional Capability
Anatomy, classification, clinical management, and operative principles across generic plastic surgery techniques, complex wound management, aesthetics; skin cancer, sarcoma, vascular anomalies; and general professional capability — ethical and medico-legal issues, consent, critical incident management, complaints, safeguarding, and colleague issue management.
Short Cases
Short Cases session: five clinical scenarios discussed with the examiners, one after another. No patient is present.
Sample FRCS Plast Surg questions
Two questions from the topics that come up most in MedMock's FRCS Plast Surg bank.
“A 60-year-old considering aesthetic rhinoplasty. Discuss professional considerations.”
“A 45-year-old woman presents five days after abdominoplasty with dusky discolouration and partial-thickness necrosis of the lower abdominal skin flap. Discuss your assessment and management.”
Example scenarios
A sample of the FRCS Plast Surg scenarios you can practise, each as a spoken conversation.
“Discuss your fluid resuscitation, excisional strategy, and reconstructive plan for a 70 kg adult with 38% TBSA mixed-depth flame burns including circumferential upper-limb involvement — including escharotomy thresholds, ABA depth classification, and your indications for early tangential excision.”
“Talk us through your reconstructive options and operative sequence for a 4 cm full-thickness defect of the lower lip after Mohs excision of a SCC, including the orbicularis oris anatomy, oral commissure preservation, and your justification for choosing primary closure vs Karapandzic vs Abbe vs free radial forearm.”
“A 34-year-old returns 8 weeks after bilateral breast augmentation reporting asymmetry and a heavy lumpy feel on the right. Walk through your differential including Baker grading of capsular contracture, your investigation pathway, and how you would conduct the Duty-of-Candour discussion.”
FRCS Plast Surg dates 2026–27
The next FRCS Plast Surg sitting we hold is: from 11 March 2027 (venue to be confirmed). Checked against JCIE (the four surgical Royal Colleges) on 23 September 2026.
Time until from 11 March 2027 (venue to be confirmed)
— d — h — m — sJCIE publishes the first day of each Plastic Surgery Section 2 diet; the oral exam runs over several days from that date. Application deadlines fall three to five months earlier.
Exam dates change. MedMock is not affiliated with JCIE (the four surgical Royal Colleges); confirm every date, application window and venue on the official site before you book. JCIE (the four surgical Royal Colleges)
FRCS Plast Surg practice — your questions answered
How does the feedback work?
When you finish a question you can have it marked, and the scorecard comes back in seconds — what you did well, what cost you marks, and exactly what to work on next. Scorecards, mark schemes and model answers are included at no extra credit cost.
Can I practise specific FRCS Plast Surg questions?
Yes. You can pick any of the 4 questions to drill a weak area, or run a mixed set to simulate the real exam.
How much does it cost?
You can start with a one-off £5 taster: 30 credits, which is 30 minutes of speaking practice, with no subscription. After that, or at any time, you can choose a monthly plan, which includes a monthly credit allowance. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Formats change from year to year: check the official candidate guidance or applicant handbook from the body that runs your exam or interview (the Royal Colleges, NHS England, the GMC and others) for your sitting.
Ready for your FRCS Plast Surg viva?
Rehearse real FRCS Plast Surg scenarios out loud and get instant, examiner-style feedback.
- Instant, personalised feedback
- Real voice-to-voice conversation
- Repeatable attempts, a different run every time
Be ready for your FRCS Plast Surg viva before you walk in
Start with the £5 taster, a one-off payment for 30 credits: practise FRCS Plast Surg viva scenarios out loud and get any of them marked when you are ready.
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