The Easy Guide to OSCEs for Final Year Medical Students

This study guide for the final year Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) provides medical students in the UK with 99 sample OSCE stations, including stations related to history, the examination of various body systems and problems, and general clinical skills, as well as the management of the acutely unwell patient, prescribing, communication skills, data interpretation, and evidence appraisal. Each includes the steps and actions required for a specific situation, grading schemes for self-assessment, and what to say to the patient. Revised and expanded, this edition has additional commonly tested cases, more on how to present findings to the examiner, follow-up questions some medical schools are using in a PACES/VIVA-style assessment, and instruction on how to interpret a paper. Distributed in the US by Martin P. Hill Consulting. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Muhammed Akunjee, MBBS, MRCGP (distinc.), PgCert (Diabetes), PgCert (MedEd), is currently a GP Principal and GP Appraiser in North London. He is a CCG Board Member for Haringey and has examined OSCEs at Imperial College medical school.

Nazmul Akunjee, MBBS, MRCGP, is a GP partner at West Green Surgery and IT Lead for NHS Haringey CCG. He too is a GP appraiser and has examined for UCL medical school OSCEs.

Dominic Pimenta, MBBS, is a Core Medical Trainee at UCL Hospital. He is currently running local and national medical student teaching alongside clinical research in infectious disease and cardiology.

Dilsan Yilmaz, MBBS, MRCS, is an Academic Clinical Fellow in General Surgery based at The Royal London. She is involved in national medical student teaching programmes and is studying for a master’s degree in medical education at the RCP.