OSCE Notes

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is used to assess the clinical skills of students and residents. Candidates perform clinical tasks in a series of clinical test stations while interacting with a trained lay-person (or actor), called a standardized patient (SP). The SP pretends to be a patient with a real illness. At each station, candidates are expected to interact with the SP in the same way that they interact with actual patients. The task(s) for each clinical station may involve taking a history, conducting a physical examination, making initial management decisions and/or addressing issues raised by the patient. A Physician Examiner observes the interaction and scores candidates' performance according to checklists developed by OSCE Test Committees. In addition, candidates may be asked to answer specific questions relating to the patient, interpret x-rays and/or the results of other investigations, make a diagnosis and/or write admission orders.

Our OSCE Notes aim to provide a "all you need to know" guide for various OSCE or clinical exam stations that you might encounter in any exam. OSCE Notes contains over 260 pages of notes on over 130 OSCE stations from internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, emergency medicine, and family.

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Complete list of OSCE Notes topics

Internal Medicine

• The Abdominal exam
• Abdominal pain
• Acute confusion
• Anemia
• Asthma attack assessment
• Back pain and the AS exam
• Blood pressure
• Approach to complete blood counts
• Celiac disease
• Chest pain
• The Congestive Heart Failure exam
• Coma
• COPD
• Insulin dependent diabetic history
• Diabetic foot exam
• Diarrhea
• Dysphagia
• Elder Abuse
• End of Life Care
• Gait and balance
• Hand exam
• Headaches
• Hearth Failure
• Hematemesis
• Hyptertension target organ exam
• Incontinence
• JVP
• Knee exam
• Liver disease exam
• Lymph node exam
• Upper motor neuron lesions and lower motor neuron lesions
• Precordial Exam
• Parkinsonism
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Approach to Potassium levels
• The respiratory exam
• Seizure differential
• Approach to sodium levels
• STD History
• The Thyroid exam

Surgery

• Acute abdomen
• Anal pain
• Bowel Obstruction
• Breast Disease
• Dysphagia
• Head and Neck Surgery
• Jaundice
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Pneumothorax
• Rectal bleeding
• Suturing
• Trauma

Emergency and Family Medicine

• 12 Lead EKGs
• Abdominal Pain
• Allergy
• Altered Level of Consciousness
• Ankle Injuries
• Acute Otitis Media
• Benzodiazepine Use
• Chest Pain
• Clearing the Cervical Spine
• Diabetes
• Headache
• Hypertension
• Meningitis
• Procedural Sedation
• Seizures
• Syncope
• Shortness of Breath
• Toxicology
• Trauma
• UTI / Cystitis / Dysuria
• Vertigo
• Wrist Injury

Psychiatry

• Alcohol Withdrawl
• Anxiety disorders
• Common causes of delirium
• Common oral exam questions
• Dementia and Delirium
• Dementia Etiologies
• Differential diagnosis of first break psychosis

Pediatrics

• Anemia
• Asthma
• Chicken Pox
• Child abuse
• Pediatric limp
• Childhood rashes
• Child proofing
• Chronic cough
• Circumcision
• Dehydration
• Developmental Milestones
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
• Down Syndrome
• Febrile Seizures
• Failure to thrive
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
• Fever
• Foreign Body Aspiration
• The Hip Exam
• Immunizations
• Macrocephaly
• Microcephaly
• Neonatal bowel obstruction
• Neonatal jaundice
• Neonatal respiratory distress
• Otitis Media
• Pertussis
• Pyloric stenosis
• SBE Prophylaxis
• Well-child checkup

Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Antepartum Hemorrhage (>20 weeks)
• Contraception
• Diagnosis of labour
• Endometriosis
• Gynecology history taking
• How to take a really good obstetrics and gynecology history
• Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
• Infertility station
• Isoimmunization
• Menopause
• Normal and abnormal labour
• Pelvic pain
• Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
• Preterm labour
• Sexual Transmitted Infections
• Urinary incontinence and prolapse
• Vaginal discharge