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FRCS in 15

The FRCS (Urol) syllabus, one topic at a time. About fifteen minutes an episode, written by a urology registrar sitting the exam and grounded in current EAU, NICE and BAUS guidance. These episodes are free.

Start here: the high-yield walkthrough

23:05

An orientation to the material that earns the most marks for the least time. What the written paper keeps coming back to, where candidates reliably lose marks, and how to use the rest of this series across a revision block.

Prostate cancer: grade groups, risk stratification and treatment decisions

16:11

Screening and diagnosis, the mpMRI-first pathway and PI-RADS, biopsy routes, ISUP grade groups, risk stratification, and how localised, locally advanced and metastatic disease are actually managed. The single highest-yield topic in the exam.

Bladder cancer and upper tract TCC

16:05

Haematuria workup, TURBT quality and re-resection, risk groups in non-muscle-invasive disease, BCG and what to do when it fails, radical cystectomy versus bladder preservation, and the separate logic of upper tract urothelial carcinoma.

Kidney and adrenal: the small renal mass and the incidentaloma

16:06

Characterising a renal mass, the Bosniak system, when to biopsy, partial versus radical nephrectomy and active surveillance, the hereditary syndromes worth knowing cold, and a safe approach to the adrenal incidentaloma.

Stone disease: acute management to metabolic prevention

16:14

Imaging the acute loin pain, when a stone needs decompressing tonight, medical expulsive therapy, choosing between ureteroscopy, shockwave lithotripsy and PCNL, and the metabolic work-up and prevention advice the exam expects you to give.

Testicular cancer: staging, markers and survivorship

15:27

The lump in clinic, tumour markers and what they mean before and after orchidectomy, seminoma versus non-seminoma, staging and prognostic groups, adjuvant options and surveillance, plus fertility and the long-term consequences of treatment.

BPH and male LUTS: assessment to intervention

15:50

Assessing male lower urinary tract symptoms properly, what the flow rate and residual actually tell you, medical therapy and its trade-offs, and how to choose between TURP and the newer minimally invasive options when a patient wants to keep ejaculatory function.

Urological trauma: kidney, bladder and urethra

15:47

Grading and managing renal trauma and when conservative management stops being safe, intraperitoneal versus extraperitoneal bladder rupture, the pelvic fracture urethral injury, and the emergencies that turn up in the viva as much as the paper.

The last three days: what to revise when time has run out

15:59

The cram episode. The numbers, staging tables and decision points worth holding in your head walking into the exam hall, and the things that are not worth another minute of your remaining time.

The rest of the syllabus

Another 20+ episodes covering every topic, alongside the original SBA question bank, timed mock exams, guideline-cited crib sheets, and a live AI examiner that questions you out loud and marks you on the official scale.

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