Osces For Medical And Surgical Finals

Throughout the UK, and elsewhere, medical schools are focusing more on objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and veering away from old style medical and surgical finals. OSCEs for Medical and Surgical Finals takes a systematic approach to preparing for these new exams, giving you crucial insights into how to score well. Written by junior doctors who recently sat the exams, this book will show you how to predict and prepare for the stations you will face. As it leads you through the cases and the examiners' mark sheets, it teaches you how to pick up every point, with extra tips on how to impress and where to go to add to your practice and experience. For overseas doctors, this book also provides essential preparation for the clinical component of the PLAB exam. Key features: * Handy, pocket-sized book * Exam focused, with key tips on how to prepare and excel on exam day * Chapters on practical skills, communication, chronic disease management, discharge planning, psychiatric histories, focused history and management, and examination * Packed with real OSCE scenarios and model mark sheets OSCEs for Medical and Surgical Finals is an essential book for all medical students and PLAB candidates.

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are commonly encountered at all levels of medical school including the final MBBS examination. OSCEs also play an important role at postgraduate level and are used to assess competency in the Foundation Years. One of the fundamental requirements of passing the OSCE is an understanding of the standard which is expected and an appreciation of how to demonstrate this. This book discusses 170 commonly encountered OSCE scenarios, with a step-by-step approach to maximise your chances of success in the examination. The scenarios are presented with sufficient background information to enable candidates to tackle variations. This comprehensive book, covering both surgery and medicine, overcomes any problems of a tick-box approach and insufficient detail faced by some alternative texts. The clear, straight-forward style and logical layout make this book perfect preparation for OSCE examinations.

"The Objective Structured Clinical Examination or OSCE for short is a familiar and often daunting experience for medical students. This book provides the essential information needed to tackle OSCE stations competently and with confidence. Over 150 topics are covered at the perfect level of detail for candidates preparing for final exams. Using bulleted checklists and a succinct writing style, the authors cover the most important points to remember about the key conditions that students are likely to encounter during OSCEs, all in a brief 2 to 4 pages per condition."--Provided by publisher.

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination, or OSCE, is a familiar and often daunting experience for medical students. Finally, a book has been written which provides the essential information needed to manage OSCE stations competently, and will help you to pass your medical and surgical finals. Over 150 topics are covered at the perfect level of detail for revision for finals; using bullet-pointed checklists and a short and succinct writing style, the authors cover the most important points to remember about the key conditions you're likely to encounter during OSCEs in 2-4 clear pages per condition. Complete OSCE Skills for Medical and Surgical Finals covers the entire undergraduate syllabus for clinical finals under the following headings: - History - Examination - Procedures - Emergency - Interpretations - Communication skills - Obstetrics & Gynaecology - Paediatrics - Genitourinary medicine

OSCEs for Medical Finals has been written by doctors from a variety of specialties with extensive experience of medical education and of organising and examining OSCEs. The book and website package consists of the most common OSCE scenarios encountered in medical finals, together with checklists, similar to OSCE mark schemes, that cover all of the key learning points students need to succeed. Each topic checklist contains comprehensive exam-focussed advice on how to maximise performance together with a range of ‘insider's tips' on OSCE strategy and common OSCE pitfalls. Designed to provide enough coverage for those students who want to gain as many marks as possible in their OSCEs, and not just a book which will ensure students ‘scrape a pass', the book is fully supported by a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/khan/osces, containing: OSCE checklists from the book A survey of doctors and students of which OSCEs have a high chance of appearing in finals in each UK medical school

Demonstrates how to prepare for their surgical clinical examination, And how to examine and take a history from a patient. This title has cases to work through that they encounter on the wards and in the exam. It includes lists of frequently asked questions with clear answers.

oscesmart in Surgery Practice vignettes, histories and mark schemes for your finals. oscesmart in surgery takes a fresh approach to passing surgical OSCE exams by emphasising on the importance of practicing clinical vignettes with fellow candidates as a team and experiencing the virtue of OSCE role-play. Presented is a range of fifty scenarios divided into four main chapters, demonstrating the breadth and variety of clinical experience you could expect from a career in the world of surgery. Focused history taking on common surgical topics, difficult communication scenarios, clear clinical topics and surgical examinations are covered in depth by authors who have been through the process. The book has clear, step-by-step guides to each clinical station followed by key tips to remember just before you sit the exam, providing a concrete base for students to excel upon. The theme of clear communication runs throughout the book, reflecting its central importance to good clinical care. As well as useful data analyses on how to systematically describe an abdominal radiograph with signs coupled with MRCS syllabus scenarios and examinations. oscesmart revision series have been devised to aid your preparation for medical school OSCEs. Complete with: -Student vignettes -Actor histories -Mark schemes We bring to you an essential revision kit that will help you - -Prepare with premade scenarios -Practice in small groups in a timed setting -Use our refined mark schemes to improve your performance