Wanted- Simulated Patients for Medical School OSCEs
"As simulated patients for a medical assessment the students will be examining chest, neck, legs etc so you must be prepared to expose body parts for examination. You will be given simple scripts to read from describing symptoms."
Unfortunately I am not eligible to apply for this exciting day out as I will be one of the hapless students being assessed this week on my examination and history skills.
OSCE stands for Objective Structured Clinical Examination. They are used in almost every med school in the country and worldwide. You rotate around a number of 'stations' each usually 5 or 10 minutes long- about the same length as your usual GP appointment.
Usually in each room there is
* One nervous medical student (who doesn't know until they walk in the door what they will be asked to do)
* One mildly bored simulated patient who has had the same procedure done to them all day
* One VERY bored professor who has been marking the nervous students all week.
So - fancy a day out at the medical school? Should be fun!
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