Vascular Surgery (FRCS Vascular oral)
Sit your FRCS Vascular viva after rehearsing every answer out loud
Rehearse FRCS Vascular Vascular 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 Vascular viva, and how do you practise for it?
JCIE intercollegiate exit oral — four 30-minute examiner-led stations covering aneurysm and lower-limb disease, endovascular intervention, vascular emergencies, and elective vascular surgery with academic foundation, plus the 40-minute Short Cases session in which clinical scenarios are discussed. The long cases use real patients and are not simulated here. Examiners grade each scenario from 4 to 8 against the standard of a day-one consultant; MedMock's feedback marks to that standard but reports practice scores, not JCIE grades. 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 Vascular 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 Vascular.
How it works
Choose a question
Pick from the FRCS Vascular questions — all 5 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 Vascular viva. Rehearse each one until it feels routine.
Case‐Based Discussion – Aneurysm & Lower Limb
Probes management of AAA, carotid disease, peripheral arterial disease, and lower-limb revascularisation, anchored against ESVS / NICE NG156 / VSGBI standards.
Case‐Based Discussion – Endovascular & Miscellaneous
Probes endovascular planning and execution — EVAR / FEVAR / TEVAR sizing, complications, endoleak typology — plus dialysis access, venous disease, and rarer vascular pathology.
Emergency Vascular Surgery Oral
Trauma and peri-operative critical care: ruptured AAA (IMPROVE evidence base), acute limb ischaemia (Rutherford classification), penetrating vascular trauma, traumatic aortic injury, acute mesenteric ischaemia.
Elective Vascular Surgery Oral
Four basic principles and interventional radiology themes, then Academic Foundation: the methodology, critical appraisal and interpretation of one of the key randomised controlled trials or important vascular papers set by the SAC in Vascular Surgery. On MedMock the examiner names the trial and no paper is shown.
Short Cases
Short Cases session: four clinical scenarios discussed with the examiners, one after another. No patient is present.
Sample FRCS Vascular questions
Two questions from the topics that come up most in MedMock's FRCS Vascular bank.
“A 75-year-old considering aortic graft replacement. Discuss approach.”
“A 65-year-old with 70% symptomatic carotid stenosis. Discuss CEA timing.”
Example scenarios
A sample of the FRCS Vascular scenarios you can practise, each as a spoken conversation.
“A 70-year-old man with a 6 cm infrarenal AAA on screening surveillance — discuss surveillance versus intervention, anatomical suitability for EVAR, and your evidence base from EVAR-1, EVAR-2 and IMPROVE.”
“Walk me through anatomical suitability for EVAR in a 70-year-old with a hostile neck, your decision threshold for fenestrated repair, and management of a type II endoleak with 5 mm sac expansion at 2-year surveillance.”
“A 75-year-old collapses in resus with a tender pulsatile abdominal mass, BP 80 systolic — manage him to theatre using IMPROVE-anchored permissive hypotension and walk through your EVAR-first strategy.”
“Critically appraise BASIL-2 (Lancet 2023) — primary outcome, sample size, risk of bias, and applicability to UK CLTI practice alongside BEST-CLI.”
FRCS Vascular dates 2026–27
The next FRCS Vascular sitting we hold is: from 9 November 2026 (Hull). Checked against JCIE (the four surgical Royal Colleges) on 23 September 2026.
Time until from 9 November 2026 (Hull)
— d — h — m — sJCIE publishes the first day of each Vascular 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 Vascular 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 Vascular questions?
Yes. You can pick any of the 5 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 Vascular viva?
Rehearse real FRCS Vascular 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 Vascular viva before you walk in
Start with the £5 taster, a one-off payment for 30 credits: practise FRCS Vascular viva scenarios out loud and get any of them marked when you are ready.
Practise the FRCS Vascular viva