Macleod's Clinical OSCEs - E-book

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Jun 14, 2014 - Medical - 340 pages
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This new book for medical students contains over 60 of the most commonly encountered OSCE stations in medicine and surgery. The OSCEs are arranged according to type of skill; for example history-taking, ethics and communication, physical examination. This is an accessible book for students under pressure who are revising for a clinical OSCE. It provides simple advice, tips about preparation, and will be easily understood. It provides sample OSCE station questions and simulated patient scripts (with answers) for practice at home.

  • Provides sample OSCE station questions and simulated patient scripts (with answers) for practice at home.

  • Will give an insight into how to ‘Get inside the examiners head’ to help the student do better in the OSCE station.

  • Highlights ‘red flag’ situations and explains the underlying importance of these topics.

  • Includes advice both on how to excel and on common errors at each OSCE station.

  • Several of the OSCE stations give details of how more advanced students would be expected to perform at higher levels.

  • Includes online access to sample marking sheets.
 

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Contents

Physical examination
71
Practical skills
157
Ethics communication and explanation
199
Prescribing and handover
259
Recognising and managing acutely unwell patients
287
Index
325
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TitleMacleod's Clinical OSCEs - E-book
AuthorsPaul A. O'Neill, Alexandra Evans, Tim Pattison, Meriel Tolhurst-Cleaver, Serena Tolhurst-Cleaver
PublisherElsevier Health Sciences, 2014
ISBN0702054828, 9780702054822
Length340 pages
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