FOSA Surgical Associates
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 67.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #2 of 13 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Multi-doctor oral and maxillofacial surgery practice in Kingston that also offers cosmetic facial and body procedures. One of the named surgeons is a consultant plastic surgeon matched by name in the Medical Council of Jamaica's public register and named with his specialty in the Medical Association of Jamaica's member directory.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.6 out of 5 · reviews: 123 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 2 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Not applicable: this country has no Specialist board register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-19 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Medical Council of Jamaica register: Rajeev Venugopal, registered 1994, parish Kingston. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit short_number) — matched by name] [mcj] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 18 September 2026 — No match among the ~33 facilities registered under the Nursing Homes Registration Act as at 31-Mar-2024; an office-based practice is not covered by this register (facility_registry map notes). |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-19 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Pages read in a browser on 2026-09-19 (the host answers plain HTTP clients with an access challenge): home, meet-us and the three office blocks in the footer. The site names the practice only (FOSA Surgical Associates, three office addresses); no company, legal form or registration number is published. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-19 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Physician's degrees (MBBS, DM) and training history published; no specific licence/registration number. [site-doctor] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-01 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-19 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Downloadable informed-consent form for surgery, a 'Possible Complications' risks section on procedure pages (e.g. breast enlargement), and real aftercare instructions (e.g. after-extractions, post-operative care) published; no revision/complication policy or complaint route found. [site] [site-cosmetic] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-01 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-cosmetic] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-cosmetic] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-doctor] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rajeev Venugopal, MBBS, DM [site-doctor] [mcj] [maj] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | 432 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site-cosmetic]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECMedical Association of Jamaica member directory (association, secondary provenance): Rajeev Venugopal, 'Area of Specialisation' = Plastic Surgery.[maj]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.fosajm.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 876-968-3130 |
| Address | 16 Hope Road, Kingston 10, Jamaica |
| City | Kingston |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.fosajm.com/contact-us/ | clinic's own site | address, phone, office locations | 1 September 2026 |
| site-cosmetic | https://www.fosajm.com/cosmetic-procedures/ | clinic's own site | menu of cosmetic procedures offered | 1 September 2026 |
| site-doctor | https://www.fosajm.com/meet-us/dr-rajeev-venugopal/ | clinic's own site | physician name, degrees, training history, role | 1 September 2026 |
| mcj | https://medicalcouncilja.com/find-a-doctor/?jsf=jet-data-table&meta… | official register | medical licence register match, data-item-object 432 | 1 September 2026 |
| maj | https://www.majdoctors.com/member-directory/ | secondary | member directory entry naming specialty (association, not a state specialist board) | 1 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit short_number) — matched by name) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Clinic site read in a browser (v1.2 pass 2 operator browser pass).) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M5.attempt / axes.M8.attempt: null → null (Re-run against clinic_site (v1.2 pass 2): the site still answers HTTP 403 behind a JavaScript challenge from this network; remains retry.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M8.attempt: null → null (Re-run against clinic_site (v1.1 pass 1): fosajm.com still HTTP 403 (Cloudflare); second dated failure but under 7 days apart, remains retry per v1.2 rule 5.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5.attempt: null → null (Re-run against clinic_site (v1.1 pass 1): fosajm.com still returns a Cloudflare block from this egress; cannot confirm whether the clinic names a legal entity; remains retry.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against facility_registry (v1.1 pass 1): full-text search of the current MoHW registered-facilities PDF, no match; nullReason retry -> not_found.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is not published; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 1 September 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.