OSCE Cases with Mark Schemes: A Revision Aid for Medical Finals

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As the aim of these assessments are to test your competency of doing tasks required of a junior doctor, there are several skills that are tested each year which form part of the assessment criteria for your year group. Again, you can use the previous station titles to come up with stations of your own or find similar stations online.

In addition, the checklist contains a list of further questions the examiner can ask the student at the end of the station, helping you to improve your knowledge of the condition. With a prescribing task being a feature of many OSCE stations in your summatives, I found running through the different scenarios in the Acute Prescribing presentation (specific to Y5) to be really helpful and would encourage you to do the same.This tutorial is really useful in covering the important topics you need to know for both types of stations and is available on the Clinical years Treasure Trove (which contains lots of tutorials/resources to help you prepare for exams). It’s very normal to feel nervous about this exam but hopefully, by covering some of the different methods and resources you can use to prepare for your OSCEs in this article, this will alleviate some of the stress.

Therefore, based on this information you know that you will need to revise the statistics we learnt in CPP to do well in this station.The patient instructions provide a detailed script, allowing the person playing the patient to convey a realistic clinical presentation, including example phrases and advice on what information they should hold back unless directly asked, just like in your real OSCE. Seek out opportunities to practise procedures such as cannulation, ABG’s, catheterisation as you are required to be confident in performing these when you become a doctor plus, you get a sign off for your procedures list so it’s a win-win situation. You may also be allocated a tutor for teaching depending on the rotation you’re on, so use these tutorials to go over any topics you find difficult to understand as well as going over skills that you aren’t able to learn from a textbook e.

Sujikka Suthakaran (Year 6) runs through how you can approach preparing for your summative OSCE assessment during your clinical years. Especially with imaging, it’s not only good practice to interpret what you see but also to present your findings as this could also be asked of you in the OSCE. Enhance your OSCE practice with our collection of virtual patients, available as part of our OSCE Stations subscription. With this in mind, here are some approaches you can take to prepare yourself for tackling these stations on the day of your exam. It can be difficult to know where to begin with preparing for the OSCEs, but the first thing you should do is to form OSCE groups, if you haven’t already.

An examination station comes up every year without fail so if you prepare well, these can be easy marks you can obtain on the day.

Therefore, when using these resources for revision, be cautious with the information as the curriculum has changed since 2018. Make sure you learn your examinations earlier on, as the closer you get to your exams, the more difficult it can be to balance learning everything in the curriculum so practising this now will be one less thing to worry about later on. We’ve produced a brief video showing you how you can create your own OSCE stations and then organise them into circuits to share with others. To prepare for your OSCE it’s important to understand the structure of the exam and the different types of skills that will be tested.

You can also create your own bank of OSCE stations for free using our ‘ OSCE Station Creator‘ and then share them with others. Not only are there practice stations within the OSCE resources, there’s a table with a summary of all the OSCE stations from 2013 onwards for your year group.