Oral Certifying practice
The ABOS Part II oral defends your own clinical decisions. Rehearse case-defence orals domain by domain — read the scenario, answer aloud as if facing the examiner, then reveal the model response, the traps and the follow-ups.
- Part II oral cases
- 57
- Examiner prompts
- 330
- Domains
- 10
Operative case-defence plus “safe surgeon” ethics
Structured questions with model answers
Sampled across the candidate case list
Practise all Part II orals together
Build a mixed case-list session across every domain, just as the real oral samples your practice.
Trauma
Defend your fixation choices, timing and post-op plan under questioning — the pattern, the options you considered and the complications you anticipated.
Covers: Fracture management, polytrauma, damage control
Start this domainAdult Reconstruction (Hip & Knee)
Indications, implant and bearing choices, peri-operative optimisation and how you manage the stiff, infected or loose replacement.
Covers: Primary and revision hip & knee arthroplasty
Start this domainSports Medicine
Graft choice, rehabilitation, return-to-play decisions and the evidence behind operative versus non-operative pathways.
Covers: Ligament, meniscus, cartilage and instability
Start this domainSpine
Decompression versus fusion reasoning, neurological assessment, and recognising the emergencies you must not miss.
Covers: Degenerative, deformity, trauma and red flags
Start this domainHand & Wrist
Reconstruct the decision-making for fractures, compressive neuropathies and the soft-tissue problems examiners probe for judgement.
Covers: Distal radius, tendon, nerve and small-joint
Start this domainFoot & Ankle
Operative thresholds, fixation strategy and the limb-at-risk decisions in the neuropathic and dysvascular foot.
Covers: Ankle fractures, tendon, deformity and diabetic foot
Start this domainShoulder & Elbow
Proximal humerus and cuff decision-making, instability work-up and when reconstruction beats fixation.
Covers: Cuff, instability, arthroplasty and elbow trauma
Start this domainPediatrics
Age-specific management, the must-not-miss diagnoses and how you counsel families through uncertainty.
Covers: Developmental, trauma and the limping child
Start this domainOrthopaedic Oncology
Staging-before-biopsy discipline, when to refer, and the limb-salvage versus amputation conversation.
Covers: Bone & soft-tissue tumours, the suspicious lesion
Start this domainProfessionalism & Ethics — the “safe surgeon”
The judgement Part II quietly scores throughout: informed consent, disclosing complications, capacity and surrogates, the impaired colleague and wrong-site prevention.
Covers: Consent, complications, capacity, conflicts, safety
Start this domainHow the Part II oral works here
A case-defence rehearsal, not an official scoring simulator
The real ABOS Part II is built around your own case list: examiners probe data gathering, diagnosis, treatment planning, technical execution, outcomes and complications, applied knowledge, and the professionalism that marks a “safe surgeon”. Each domain here opens a set drawn only from that area's cases. Read the scenario like a candidate, commit to your management aloud, then reveal the model answer, examiner traps and follow-ups, and mark each as ready or needing work. This is an independent study aid mapped to the public Part II structure — not an official ABOS assessment or a predictor of your result.