Categories: uncategorized
Date: 22 April 2007 00:38:46
So today I need to do rather a lot of study. I am really not very good at doing rather a lot of study as I tend to be very easily distracted and find things that are much more... not interesting... more... immediately gratifying... engaging? Something like that.
I have an OSCE on Tuesday. OSCE stands for Objective Structured Clinical Examination (I think). There are 6 "stations", each with a different scenario or task. They can be on any topic that we've covered so far in the course. There's a fair amount of speculation about what the stations will be, and all we know is that they will be "approximately 50% history taking and 50% examination, possibly with a procedural skill included too". A procedural skill would take the place of an examination station.
So my money is on:
* A neurological examination. Vision perhaps.
* CPR
* A cardiovascular examination of some type - possibly "the chest" or something like that.
* A symptom history - breathlessness
* A history of a disease - something haematological... maybe anaemia.
* A medication history.