Description
Prepare for Your Osteopathic General Surgery Oral Boards with Confidence
The General Surgery Osteopathic Virtual Mock Oral Course is designed for board-eligible surgeons and residents preparing for their osteopathic general surgery oral board examination.
This course is ideal for candidates who want focused, high-yield practice, realistic case discussions, and expert feedback before exam day. Through an immersive virtual format, you will strengthen the clinical reasoning, communication, and decision-making skills needed to respond clearly and confidently under pressure.
Using a proven mock oral format, the course covers 150+ board-relevant general surgery cases. These cases help you practice the types of clinical presentations, follow-up questions, examiner interaction, and management decisions you may encounter during the oral board process.
The course does more than test what you know. It helps train you to organize your thoughts, defend your decisions, communicate your plan, and respond in the structured manner expected in an oral board setting. Whether you want to build confidence, improve clinical articulation, or sharpen your judgment under pressure, this course provides practical preparation that closely reflects the oral board experience.
Participants may also purchase additional virtual private mock oral sessions, subject to faculty availability.
*Faculty and topic availability may be limited over time.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Evaluate preoperative, operative, and postoperative patient care issues across the core areas of general surgery, including diseases of the head and neck, breast, skin and soft tissues, alimentary tract, abdomen, vascular system, endocrine system, trauma, emergency surgery, and critical surgical care.
• Develop appropriate differential diagnoses and management plans for clinical and surgical case scenarios commonly encountered in general surgery oral board examinations.
• Interpret relevant clinical findings, laboratory results, and imaging studies to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and operative decision-making.
• Compare operative and non-operative management options for patients on the surgical service, including patients who may not require immediate surgical intervention.
• Explain tumor staging principles and describe appropriate surgical and nonsurgical management options based on disease stage.
• Present and justify the steps, indications, risks, complications, and postoperative considerations for commonly performed general surgery procedures.
• Communicate clinical reasoning, decision-making, and patient management plans clearly and effectively in an oral board-style format.
