Macleod's Clinical OSCEs

by Paul A. O'Neill BSc(Hons), MBChB, FRCP (Lon), MD, FAcadMed, FHEA, Alexandra Evans MBChB, MRCGP, DRCOG, DFRSH, Tim Pattison BSc, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, PGCert (Med Ed), Meriel Tolhurst-Cleaver MA (Cantab), MB BChir, MRCPCH, Serena Tolhurst-Cleaver MBChB, MRCP(Lon), FFICM, PGCert(MMC)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780702054815
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	05/11/2015
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

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

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From the Publisher

• 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.