Macleod's Clinical OSCEs

• Provides sample OSCE station questions and simulated patient scripts (with answers) for practice at home.
• Will give an insight into how to ‘Get inside the examiners head’ to help the student do better in the OSCE station.
• Highlights ‘red flag’ situations and the importance of these topics.
• Includes advice both on how to excel and on common errors at each OSCE station.
• Several of the OSCE stations give details of how more advanced students would be expected to perform at higher levels.
• Includes online access to sample marking sheets.

Paul A. O'Neill (Author), Alexandra Evans (Author), Tim Pattison (Author), Meriel Tolhurst-Cleaver (Author), Serena Tolhurst-Cleaver (Author)

9780702054815

Paperback, published 15 May 2015

352 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.61 kg

This new book for medical students contains over 60 of the most commonly encountered OSCE stations in medicine and surgery. The OSCEs are arranged according to type of skill; for example history-taking, ethics and communication, physical examination. This is an accessible book for students under pressure who are revising for a clinical OSCE. It provides simple advice, tips about preparation, and will be easily understood. It provides sample OSCE station questions and simulated patient scripts (with answers) for practice at home.

• Introduction to the OSCE
• History taking
• Physical examination
• Practical skills
• Ethics, communication and explanation
• Prescribing and handover
• Recognising and managing acutely unwell patients

Subject Areas: Clinical & internal medicine [MJ]