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Objective
Structured Clinical Examination, OSCE, also called Objective
Standardized Clinical Examination
is tough. OSCE exams like USMLE Step 2 CS, MCCQE II, PLAB
Part 2, Medical Students OSCEs, Medical Schools Finals, and Clinical
Skills Assessments for International Medical Graduates, TRAS OSCE,
AMC Clinical, NZREX are
really difficult and stressful.
That is what it is. We are not going to say it is easy as what
clinical educators and OSCE organizers usually claim trying to make
it acceptable for you.
OSCE Exams consist of several clinical encounters (called stations)
with specially trained actors playing the role of a patient with
some sort of a medical complaint (called Standardized Patient, SP).
 Let’s
take few minutes here to imagine your situation during the OSCE.
This is an important step as you may realize that the first step to
deal with any issue is to completely understand what it is.
You will find a lot of articles and web pages describing what are
the OSCE exam procedures. They present the OSCE in a scientific
academic context. We are sure you already have read several of
these.
Are you?…
Have you read between the lines?… Have
you achieved an understanding about how your physical and mental
status will be during the OSCE exam?
Well, let us explain it for
you. Just concentrate. Imagine yourself in a hallway with several
other candidates each standing in front of a closed door. Several
individuals are watching you for any violation of the rules. Then a
bell, a buzzer, or an announcer goes on. You have one or two minutes
to read a full page hanged on that door describing what the station
ahead is and what are you required to do.
Usually, you’ll need to read the instruction several times because
you’re nervous, your heart is
racing and your mind isn’t catching what your eyes are reading!
Then, a second bell/buzzer/announcer sounds. You knock the door and
enter the room. In each room, you will find a new patient and a
different room setting. In some OSCE Exams, an examiner is present
in the room. In such cases, you have to hand out the examiner one or
two of your identification stickers that you may have looked for
them and didn’t find. Remember you are nervous.
Then you have to get started as your limited time has already been
started when the second bell/buzzer went on. You need to get
information from the SP and/or may be examine or consult him/her.
Your voice is low. Your hands are shaking. You look unconfident and
don’t know what to do. You are at the center of focus of both the SP
and the OSCE examiner (present or through video monitoring). Both
are watching you carefully. Listening to you.
Those
SPs are well trained not to give you any
information unless you specifically ask for it.
That is not like real life medical encounters where the patient will
say everything when you ask about the reason of their visit. So, you
have to know what questions you need to ask, the OSCE Examiner
checklist.
As
you were asking, the patient replies by questions for you. Questions
like ‘What do you mean?’, ‘Do I have to answer that?’, ‘Is this
relevant to my problem?’, ‘Why are you asking this?’.
All these questions are intended to shake you if that wasn’t a
reflex of your poorly phrased questions.
You start to lose control over
yourself and the encounter. You start to make fatal mistakes like
being disrespectful to the patient and unprofessional. You’ll
jump from topic to topic unorganized. And you’ll forget to ask
questions that are important to fulfill the examiner checklist! That
examiner who is closely observing you and filling out your checklist
and writing comments.
.
Suddenly the bell/buzzer/announcer goes on again. The station is
over. Oh my God. There are still tons of questions that I have to
ask. I missed this station. You’ll
start the process of self-blaming. You’ll feel hopeless.
.
As
you proceed, you’ll try to hold yourself up. You’ll find that you
had already wasted substantial time of the minute before the next
station or in some exams where there is a post encounter oral or
writing question period or patient notes writing period.
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The cycle starts again and again.
By
the fourth or fifth station,
you’ll feel exhausted and your brain starts to ache. You’ll
feel unable to think about the coming station and you start to give
up claiming that you’ll do your best.
Did you get what we wanted you
to understand? Let’s summarize:
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You will be nervous, irritable and
cannot think straight.
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You will be physically and mentally
exhausted.
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Your time is running fast and is
not enough.
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Some SPs
will be challenging you intentionally and waist your time.
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You need to be organized and manage
your time effectively.
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You need to know in advance what to
ask, as there is no time to think.
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You need to be careful about how to
phrase your questions and comments in order to be respectful and
empathic. Remember, no time to think.
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You need to ask your questions
intelligently in order not to lead the patient or trigger time
wasting and problem evoking conversations.
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You need to be and appear
confident, organized, and professional.
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Is
that easy?… Of course not.
Is
it impossible to do?… Of course not.
Thousands of medical students, residents, and graduates have done
it…. Okay, so it is not easy and at the same time not impossible.
You need to assign the needed time and effort to prepare yourself to
the OSCE Exams and you’ll be just fine.
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But how to
prepare yourself for the OSCEs?
.
Obviously, you need a system to
follow through the medical encounter, an OSCE station or real
medical patient encounter. A
system that will automatically organize the encounter and thoroughly
covers all the check points and differential. This ebook,
A Step By Step Guide To Mastering The OSCEs, will help you to:
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1. A Step By Step Flowcharts To Follow
Through Out Your Organized Controlled Medical Interview OSCE Exam.
2. A Complete History Taking Templates
For All Common OSCEs In ALL Specialties.
3. Ready To Use Questions Templates Of
What & How & When To Ask, Not Only Checklists That You Need To
Figure Out How To Cover In Your OSCE Exam.
4. Question Templates That Cover All
Related Differential Diagnosis And Covers The Checklists Without The
Need To Think About The Case.
5. A Step By Step Guide Of How To
Perform A Physical Examination, What To Examine, And What To Tell
The Patient And The OSCE Examiner (if present) While Examining The
SP.
6. A Step By Step Guide To Follow About
What, When, And How To Manage Any Emergency Setting OSCE Station.
7. How To Organize A Counseling Station
In The OSCEs.
8. Complete Carefully Phrased Sentences
Of How To Approach Sensitive Issues Like Menses, Sexual History, And
Abuse In An Ethical Manner.
9. Master Verbal Communications
Indirectly By Just Memorizing The Templates and Perform Them In Your
OSCE Exam.
10.
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Your Driving Lessons!
 In
order to learn how to do something in life, there are two ways.
Either you try to figure it out yourself by trial and failure
approach that takes time, effort, and failure risks. Or you seek a
professional training, which sounds costly, but in fact it saves you
time, effort, and the risk of failing expensive exams.
You didn't
figure out how to drive yourself! In stead, you started with some
one who knows how to drive well and learned from him/her those
specific driving steps, short cuts, and valuable secrets that you
now use them automatically unconsciously every day!
In your preparation to your OSCE
exam, don't you realize that it is noticeably logical to take the
same approach to shape up your communication and clinical skills?!
When you
got your driving lessons, your instructors asked you to follow
specific steps and perform specific procedures in a specific
sequence, right?! That was because these specific steps and the
sequence they have been organized in proved to be the most rapid,
logical, and safe practices. By strictly following these steps, you can insure your safety and the
safety of other road users. He had also told you about fatal
mistakes to avoid on the road.
In OSCE exams, and subsequently
in your real life medical encounters, OSCE examiners want you to be
organized by following specific steps in specific medically and
ethically correct sequence in order to be considered a thorough,
efficient and safe physician. Nothing else! Just be organized,
thorough, efficient and safe with no fatal mistakes concerning your
performance or the patient safety!
After knowing the specific
driving steps and their sequence, what did you do? Let us guess. You
thought about the logic of each step and its place and its timing in
the sequence. You argued with your instructor about that, too. You
may even have questioned your instructor's ability by first
listening from him/her then by trying his/her advices yourself.
Definitely you came up with a slightly modified approach that you
felt comfortable to perform and your instructor found it acceptable
on the point of the guidelines. Then you memorized those steps.
Right!...
That is a healthy approach and I
sincerely encourage you to do the same in your OSCE exam
preparation! Find out the specific steps and the specific sequence!
What did you do next?...
You practiced these steps first by yourself by imaging being on the
road thinking about what would you do if, for example, you need to
turn right on next intersection. Then, you moved on to the next step
of being on the road with your instructor practicing and listening
to his/her remarks about your performance. Logical approach, right?!
Do the
same for the OSCEs. Memorize the steps. Practice them with yourself
imaging being in a medical encounter. Practice in front of large
mirror where you can see all your body. Pay attention on your
non-verbal gestures. Then move on in your practice and practice with
friends. Practice in a group
of three to four friends. Choose them carefully. Choose who is
willing to criticize you and open to listen to yours too. Think
about what are saying about you. The intention is honesty. Be honest
with yourself and with your friends.
Practice is crucial. It makes
the steps part of your daily medical encounter routines and
reactions to events. You'll shape up your communication and clinical
skills by practicing over and over. You'll feel no station is new.
All OSCEs scenarios will be
familiar. You'll perform confidently and naturally yet met all the
medical and ethical guidelines and precautions. Practice will
build up confidence that will overcome the OSCE exams fast pace and
stress.!
When you
took your driving lessons, were you focusing on how to pass the test
first, or on how to drive safely and efficiently?!...
This is what the driving test is all about!....
Isn't it to test your driving skills?!.... So is the OSCEs, it is to
test your clinical and communication skills!.
Don't focus on passing the OSCE exam. It won’t work. In stead focus
on your clinical and communication skills. A good passing mark in
the exam will be a very consequence!
What happens if you don't know
what to do in a medical encounter?. What
happens if you knew what to do but because of not practicing enough,
or the exam fast pace, or a patient rushing practices you forgot
what to do? You will be
disorganized, irritable, rude, hesitant, and start to make medical
and ethical mistakes! If you were successful to hold yourself
and remembered some steps to do, you'll be acting them up. Not
living the moment naturally! OSCE examiners are well aware of this
just like driving examiner. It
won't work acting up in OSCEs! They want to see the real you!
If that won't be a kind, capable, thorough, efficient, safe
physician, then, that won't be kind of assuring for them that you
will be as so in real medical encounters.
 Objective Structured
Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
organizers want you to be a kind,
thorough, efficient, and safe physician. They respond to the
concerns of the general public, politicians, and professional
bodies. What about your concerns, then??!..
Don't you want to be safe to your patients and yourself?..
Don't you want to establish a reputation of being kind and clever in
your community (free publicity!)?.. Don't
you want to be thorough and cover every think to protect you from
damaging and expensive lawsuits?.. Of
course you do!!.
So, start
shaping your clinical and communication skills right now and
practice the techniques over and over, adapt them, develop them and
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What is "A
Step By Step Guide to Mastering the OSCEs" ?!
Act now?!!... But
what are the steps!!
There are now several good books
that deal with how to prepare for the Objective Structured Clinical
Examinations (OSCEs). Some of them are even specifically written for
one OSCE organizer such as USMLE Step 2 CS, or PLAB 2,
or MCCQE II, or OSCEs for medical students. Some are
specific for a certain specialty such us surgery or obstetrics &
gynaecology,
psychiatry .. etc. You need to buy
more than one to master the OSCEs and they are not cheap!.
However, they are great resources and we used a lot of them.
All of these books are organized
around topics which are common in OSCEs like appendicitis,
ectopic pregnancy, or
depression, ...etc. There are two
drawbacks for this approach.
First, They are limited to few
common OSCE scenarios! What would you do when you face a modified or
new scenario on your OSCE exam day?!. All
OSCE organizers include one or two new scenarios each exam, in
addition to continuously modify scenarios of the same topic!.
 Secondly,
They are focused to prepare you only for the OSCEs, if not even for
only one organizer's OSCEs or specialty!..
What about the other OSCEs?.. What
about your daily medical encounters with real patients during your
medical school, residency, or real practice?! Do you have to retrain
and practice again every time?!!.
For these reasons, we wrote the
ebook "A Step By Step Guide
to Mastering the OSCEs!".
It is not focused on certain
organizer's OSCEs or specialty OSCEs, but on shaping your clinical
and communication skills to turn you into a good thorough efficient
and safe physician first, and as a consequence, capable of passing
all types of OSCEs with good grades!.
Isn't that the aim of the OSCEs organizers?!..
Isn't that your own goal?!..
Definitely,.. YES!.
Do not think you will be able to do it completely by yourself,
and then sit down and wait for
good OSCE Exam scores.
If you do, you will never get your best potential!
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