
Plastic surgery viva revision, stripped to essentials.
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Plastic Surgery Revision turns fellowship exam preparation into direct question-and-answer practice. Its episodes move quickly through aesthetic breast assessment, abdominoplasty, brow lifts, rhinoplasty, body contouring, trauma, lymphedema, and acute burns management.
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About Plastic Surgery Revision
Plastic Surgery Revision is a specialist study show for plastic surgery fellowship and board exam preparation. It works in a stripped-down question-and-answer format. The episodes sound close to viva practice, with prompts that demand definitions, anatomy, classifications, operative steps, risks, and postoperative management. The pace is brisk and clinical. Aesthetic surgery topics are prominent, including breast assessment, redo breast reduction considerations, abdominoplasty, brow lifts, rhinoplasty, liposuction, lipofilling, thigh lifts, and body contouring. Reconstructive and acute-care material also appears. Lower limb trauma is reviewed through a named classification, while lymphedema is framed through lymphatic anatomy, secondary tissue changes, and functional impact. Burns management is handled as exam recall, with burn types, mortality figures, resuscitation thresholds, and tissue injury mechanisms. The show favors direct answers over discussion. That makes it dense, sometimes repetitive, and useful for drilling details that can vanish under pressure. In the viva-style episodes, the format becomes more interactive, testing how a candidate structures history, examination, expectations, risk counselling, operative planning, and complication management. Those moments show the difference between knowing a list and presenting a safe exam answer. Anatomy is a recurring anchor. Brow elevators and depressors, supraorbital and supratrochlear nerves, nasal valves, fat layers, abdominal wall blood supply, and zones of adherence are treated as practical surgical knowledge. The show also returns often to complications: wound breakdown, fat necrosis, seroma, hematoma, infection, skin necrosis, sensory change, septal hematoma, and airway obstruction. It is not designed for casual health listening. The value is concentrated and exam-specific. Plastic surgery trainees, especially those preparing for oral examinations, get a portable prompt bank that keeps the language of assessment and management fresh. The differentiating feature is its refusal to smooth everything into lecture style. It keeps the pressure of recall intact.
Made for: For plastic surgery trainees and exam candidates who need focused recall practice across aesthetic, reconstructive, trauma, and burns topics. It best suits listeners already comfortable with surgical terminology.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the viva pressure visible through rapid prompts, correction, and structured clinical answers. It prioritizes exam-ready recall over broad explanation or casual medical conversation.
In their own words
I am a Plastic Surgeon, and whilst revising for my Fellowship (exit/board) exams. I have created a Question and answer podcast for revising for Plastic Surgery Fellowship/ Board Exams. I hope it helpsAny questions or comments or just to say hi... [email protected] or @Ryan_L_K on Twitter
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Episodes
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Viva - assessment and management of hypospadias
Mar 21, 2020·4m - 2
Viva- the assessment of the aesthetic breast assessment
Hidden gemThis episode of Plastic Surgery Revision presents a viva-style examination session covering aesthetic breast assessment, with a senior consultant guiding trainees through four clinical cases: a bilateral ptosis mastopexy, a capsular contracture augmentation revision, a 58-year-old massive weight loss patient, and a redo breast reduction.
Mar 21, 2020·1h 45m·7 clips - 3
Viva - coronal craniosynostosis
Mar 21, 2020·10m - 4
Viva - ectropion
Mar 21, 2020·3m - 5
Viva - the assessment of childhood facial swellings
Mar 21, 2020·6m - 6
Viva - managing the failing flap
Mar 21, 2020·3m - 7
Viva - how to raise fibula flap
Mar 21, 2020·6m - 8
Viva - Nasal assessment
Mar 21, 2020·3m - 9
Viva - surgical tracheostomy
Mar 21, 2020·4m - 10
Viva - assessment and management of a new patient with a unilateral cleft lip and palate
Mar 21, 2020·3m - 11
Viva - fracture associated infections
Mar 21, 2020·4m - 12
Viva - hand examination
Mar 21, 2020·3m - 13
Viva - Abdominoplasty
Mar 21, 2020·3m - 14
Viva - wound healing
Mar 20, 2020·4m - 15
Viva - radial nerve tendon transfers
Mar 20, 2020·2m - 16
Viva - tendon transfer for the ulnar nerve
Mar 20, 2020·3m - 17
Viva - emergency burn management
Mar 19, 2020·4m - 18
Viva - Abdominoplasty
Mar 19, 2020·3m - 19
Viva - brachial plexus examination
Mar 19, 2020·4m - 20
Viva - blepharoplasty
Mar 19, 2020·4m - 21
Viva - Anterolateral thigh flap
Mar 19, 2020·3m - 22
Viva revision: how to raise a radial forearm flap
Mar 17, 2020·2m - 23
Viva practice - how to raise a posterior interosseous artery flap
Mar 17, 2020·3m - 24
Non-operative facial rejuvenation
Oct 1, 2019·18m - 25
Liposuction, lipofilling and body contouring
Oct 1, 2019·20m - 26
Rhinoplasty
Oct 1, 2019·31m - 27
Genioplasty
Oct 1, 2019·6m - 28
Browlifts
Oct 1, 2019·21m - 29
Ulcers
Sep 30, 2019·15m - 30
Perineal reconstruction
Sep 30, 2019·23m - 31
Osteomyelitis
Sep 30, 2019·10m - 32
Ambiguous genitalia and penile reconstruction
Sep 30, 2019·12m - 33
Abdominal wall
Sep 30, 2019·12m - 34
Blepharoplasty
Sep 30, 2019·27m - 35
Hypospadias
Sep 30, 2019·25m - 36
Lymphoedema
A plastic surgeon reviews lymphedema through a question-and-answer format for board exam preparation.
Sep 30, 2019·23m - 37
Lower limb trauma
A plastic surgeon reviews lower limb trauma classification and statistics for board exam preparation.
Sep 30, 2019·29m - 38
Facelifts
Plastic Surgery Revision’s “Facelifts” lesson links surgical planes to protection of the frontal and mandibular facial-nerve branches.
Sep 30, 2019·36m·2 clips - 39
Burns like pathology
Sep 29, 2019·6m - 40
Acute burns management
A plastic surgeon reviews burns management through a question-and-answer format for board exam preparation.
Sep 29, 2019·34m·2 clips - 41
Complications of Burns
Sep 29, 2019·13m - 42
Non thermal burns
A plastic surgeon reviews cold injury classifications and management for fellowship exam preparation.
Sep 29, 2019·20m - 43
Managing burns scars
Sep 29, 2019·5m