E-book Category: Self Help
E-book Title: To Mastering The OSCEs
Book Description: Step By Step Guide To Mastering The OSCE And Patient Clinical Encounters
Learn How To Solve The OSCE Exam Dilemma By Memorizing Pre-prepared Organized Step By Step Questions & Actions Flowcharts. If you find it difficult to ORGANIZE your short OSCE Station time; asking all REQUIRED questions, doing physical, and communicating effectively while fulfilling the OSCE exam checklist at the same time, a proven TIME Efficient Systematic Approach may be the solution you are looking for... Have you seen this easy OSCE exam approach?...
If you are open to some proven ideas relating to preparing your clinical and communication skills for the OSCEs exams and patient clinical encounters, you'll save hours by memorizing the OSCEhome systematic approach templates enabling you to focus on solving the patient's medical problem and clinical decision making ... - 23 Flowchart Sets Of Carefully Medically, Ethically, And Legally Phrased Questions Blocks That Makes You Efficiently Manage All OSCE Exam Scenarios Integrating Both Clinical And Communication Skills in Flowchart Sets. ALL needed questions for any differential are included. The WHAT To Ask, WHEN and HOW. Being fluent in English is not enough to efficiently communicate with patients. THIS is what you need if you have English language difficulties.
- 24 Step By Step Guides Of How To Perform Focused Physical Exam In Just 5 Minutes. Organizing your exam in a time efficient, clinically correct, and patient centered manner is crucial in OSCE exams. The WHAT To Do, WHEN and HOW.
- 10 Steps To Follow To Counsel Patients. What should you inform them, what information you should gather, and WHEN.
- Step By Step Guides Of How To Deal with 19 Difficult Patients' Scenarios That Improves Your Communication Skills.
Do all your patient clinical interviews get the results you're really after? Are they as successful as you'd like them to be?...
Do you frequently forget to ask or examine relevant points and have to go back to complete your history taking or physical examination?..
Do you frequently use phrases like "patient is a poor historian/ unreliable" or have communication issues?..
One of my OSCE candidates did just that. Using what I'm about to show you, he increased his time efficiency as well as his clinical skills substantially. Many others increased their clinical performance by 300% or more, as well. If I could give you an effective Clinical Skills strategy that would "outperform" the medical interview approach you are currently using, would you be interested? I know you'll find this webpage to be extremely valuable.
Discover how "A Step By Step Guide To Mastering The OSCEs" is your QUICKEST Yet Most Thorough and Focused Approach to perform during clinical patient encounters as well as OSCE stations.
This Unique and Precise Systematic Approach NEVER BEFORE created helps you develop and ACHIEVE confidence in BOTH your Clinical and Communication Skills.
Wrap up the patient encounters, both real and in Objective Structured Clinical Examination OSCE Station, assured that ALL Questions have been correctly asked, ALL the differentials COVERED fulfilling the Medical OSCE examiner checklists / mark sheets, with excellent communication skills as well as assuring patient satisfaction and compliance! Protect Yourself in Clinical Interviews Thousands of Medical Students And Graduates Start Their Clinical Placements And Take Medical OSCE Exams Every Year WITHOUT Proper Preparation. Thousands MESSED IT UP, FAIL or Pass With Poor Clinical Evaluation & Scores, Only To Face Thousands of Patients' Complaints, Hundreds of Law Suits Against Physicians, And The 'Not Good Doctor' Reputation. All Due To: - Running Out of Time Leaving Questions Unasked and Issues Uncovered.
- Being Unorganized, Giving The Impression of Having Poor Medical Knowledge.
- Losing Control of The Interview To The Patient,
- Poor Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Skills Appearing Insensitive To Patients, and Unprofessional Conduct.
 - Medical Student 3rd year, 4th year, Final Clinical Skills OSCE Exams
- International or Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG, IMG) Clinical Assessments OSCEs.
- USMLE Step 2 CS OSCE
- LMCC MCCQE II OSCE
- PLAB Part 2 OSCE
- MRCGP CSA OSCE
- TRAS OSCE
- AMC Clinical OSCE
- NZREX OSCE
- Residency and Specialty OSCEs
A Step By Step Guide To Mastering The OSCE And Clinical Patient Encounter The Systematic Approach To Achieving Excellence In Clinical Patient Encounters And Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exams!
An article about how to develop your clinical and communication skills for your clinical patient encounters and your OSCE exam preparation. Are you preparing for clinical clerkship, internship, or one of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE Exams); - Medical Student 3rd year, 4th year, Final Clinical Skills OSCE Exams,
- Residency and Specialty Clinical Evaluation Exam OSCEs,
- Foreign or International Medical Graduates Clinical Skills Assessment OSCE Exams.
- USMLE Step 2 CS,
- LMCC MCCQE II,
- PLAB Part 2,
- MRCGP CSA, MRCP, MRCS, MRCOG, MRCPED, MRCPSYCH.
- AMC Clinical,
- NZREX,
- TRAS OSCE.
and looking for information to further improve your clinical skills and communication skills or want to know the quickest easiest way to prepare for Clinical Skills Assessment OSCE Exams?
Do you feel stressed because your Clinical Skills and communication skills preparation is taking too long, and cost you too much effort and money? * Can you: - take history from your patients....
- do physical examination...
- come up with a differential diagnosis...
- decide what investigations to order...
- put a working plan (clinical decision making)...
- consult your patient...
- deal with difficult patient situations (do you?) ...
... all of that in as little as 5 to 15 minutes in a professional and time efficient approach?.... Can you do that quickly and repeatedly patient after patient, OSCE station after OSCE station even if you are stressed out, as in OSCE exams and real life medical encounters?... Are you absolutely confident that you can efficiently MANAGE the medical interview with your current clinical skills and communications skills and STAY IN CONTROL during the interview?...
* Do you make clinical skills & communication skills mistakes?
Do you make any of these little known mistakes in your clinical patient encounters?! - Asking leading questions.
- Don't know or forget what to ask or examine in this specific patient encounter.
- Jump into a diagnosis quickly and forget covering the differentials. (Why not? It was a straight forward case!).
- Ignore patient clues. (Major clinical and communication skills error!).
- Being unknowingly disrespectful to your patient.
- Run out of time before finishing the wanted tasks.
- Appear unprofessional with your verbal and non verbal communications.
- Lose control of the medical interview to the patient.
- Unorganized, asking same question again and forget patient's answers.
and many more? Do you?! If you do realize the importance of having some templates to follow during your patient encounters and Clinical Skills Assessment OSCE exam in order to be really sure to fulfill the OSCE Exam checklists/ mark sheets, then, this information is for you. I am about to introduce you to the BEST PROVEN approach to BOTH your patient encounters and Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam preparation.
* Who am I, what were my clinical skills problems?
But let us first tell you who am I! Chances are you haven't heard of OSCEhome before. But when you finish reading this, you'll be glad you finally did.
I think I'm a lot like you. I was in the same place you where not too long time ago. I've gone to medical school. . Spend my life going to school, seem like. I've run up these huge debts. I had to move to another city with all the hassle and expenses of settling down and figuring out my way. Medical school was long and expensive. But I've done really really well in everything I tried.
Unfortunately, for the first time of my life I was intern with basically no money. It was a challenge that is really not well defined and, you know, was sort of thrown to the wall and I have to figure out a lot of things. I'll be honest. I had a tremendous fear of failure because all along through school it was clear for me what to do to have success.
But now, all of a sudden I have to worry about all kinds of things, like how to deal with patients, how to take history and do physical, how to be fast and yet thorough, how to make the right decision in a short time, how to deal with nurses and staff. And doing better than my peers in case presentation, exam evaluations, and being a 'good doctor'. Some of these guys, I think, like nothing more than seeing me humiliated in front of them, nurses, staff, and everyone.
There is that whole idea of being out there all of a sudden alone. What would I do? The Hippocratic oath said I'm not supposed to hurt anyone or cause harm, and definitely I don't want to do that. I don't want to miss things or get patient complaints or law suits. So, where to start?
In my patient interviews, I was always nervous and in a hurry. Didn't know the pace I was going. It took me a long time to clarify patient's complaint and HPI. Wasn't able to finish asking all question in one time or forgot the patient's answers, always needed to go back and clarify things and thus my patient notes were deficient.
In my clinical skills evaluation exams, the picture wasn't much different. Adrenaline was high. Patients were of all different kinds. Angry, sad, seductive, talkative and so on. The one I still remember was a patient who kept pacing the room rapidly talking none stop and at the end left the room! Patients who ask stupid questions like scratch marks. Angry patients who takes time to calm them down. I always wished to know a quick way to deal with such difficult patients.
My physical examination was all over the room, not well organized. Takes time, slow patients, and again forgot things to check or looking after the patient's comfort like sliding the bed. I remember once I was so nervous that I used the tooth pick to assess touch sensation which hurt the patient (she moaned). I apologized, but still looked nervous and don't know how to do the test.
My patient notes were not that good too. My hand writing was shaky. HPI not complete and not in sequence as it should be.
As you see, I was basically where you are now when I had all these fears. I had a great success in my scholastic studies in med school. But here, now all of a sudden I was making almost very little money with this crushing debt burden beside all the emotional stresses and I really have to perform. But it was all milky. I didn't know what and how to perform.
When we started our clinical rotation in medical school, we, to some extend, left by our own to learn clinical skills. When we make mistakes, we'll always be able to go back and check with the patient or reexamine. The patient was like a mountain that I have find out our path to climb to reach the dome, that is the diagnosis. I was, and still am, afraid of missing something that will lead to harm the patient or upset him, or make him complain to my attendant affecting my assessment, or even sue me.
Most of the time, patients were supportive. Well, they know I am just a medical student or junior resident trying to learn. Besides, I avoided challenging patients. But this is not the case in real life medical encounters. I haven't enough time to have a relaxed interview pace or even to recheck with the patient. When I was preparing for our Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam, I, just like you, had spent weeks looking for that "Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam magic approach" that could allow us to finally master a thorough and yet time efficient clinical and communication skills approach.
* How did I solved my clinical skills & communication skills problems?
I virtually attended all available expensive Clinical Skills preparation courses, bought and studied almost all available preparation books. I listened to every 'Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam Expert' who offered advice. I spent so much time practicing. But NOTHING WORKED as I hoped! That is to be thorough, organized, and time efficient at the same time and off course good communicators!
Then, four years ago, on a brilliantly sunny day in October, while studying at the central library, I came across few Medical OSCE examiners. They were getting ready for an OSCE exam. I chatted with them and discovered the COLD HARD TRUTH about why I couldn't reach any significant level of confidence in how thorough and quick is my Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam Clinical Skills approach! Most probably, you are now in a similar stressful situation.
The TRUTH about OSCE Exams that I discovered is that my scattered OSCE Exam preparation information, notes, questions, and tips, NEED TO BE gathered in ONE medically thorough, organized, workable, and time efficient step by step SYSTEMATIC APPROACH flowcharts that integrates BOTH clinical skills and communication skills that I can study and practice ONCE for any patient scenario and for ALL my coming OSCE Exams as well as my FUTURE real life medical practice with real patients! An approach that get me high clinical evaluation and scores now, and patient satisfaction avoiding complaints and law suits later.!
Later in life, I discovered that all OSCE Exam stations' formats are essentially the same in all OSCE exams. Doesn't matter whether it is Medical School Students OSCEs, USMLE Step 2 CS, LMCC MCCQE II, PLAB part 2, MRCGP CSA, TRAS 2, AMC Clinical, NZREX, or Clinical Skills Assessment of Foreign / International Medical Graduates. The differences are in the time allocated to the OSCE stations, the actual presence of the OSCE Examiner during the OSCE station, and the depth of needed medical knowledge, that is the OSCE Exam checklists!
They also told me that the OSCE station's stem question is just to direct the OSCE Exam candidate to what system I should focus on giving the limited available time but not meant to omit the differentials and hidden issues. Checklists approach won't get you a high clinical evaluation score!
* So What Did I Do To Avoid Missing Things And Waste The interview's short time? Over a really long time, I gathered all the necessary information needed to be asked for every disease. Then I: - Arranged them in question boxes based on symptom complaints.
- Wrote/gathered specific questions for each needed info.
- Checked the medical, ethical, and communication correctness of each question with experts.
- Determined the differentials for each symptom and merged the necessary questions within the boxes.
- Arranged the questions within each box in a time efficient flowchart sequence that assures patient cooperation and prevent them from interrupting the medical interview flow.
- I subdivided each box into a main screening box and detailed sub-boxes to be explored only if the patient reply was related.
So, In a real OSCE, as well as a medical interview, I'll start with the main first question box and follow through expanding into sub-boxes as needed and the back to the main box. Then, according to the station, move to the next box and so on. It took me about a year to perfect the system.
For the physical exam, I: - Arranged the needed exams to be done in a time efficient sequence that minimize patient discomfort.
- Wrote phrases to ask the patient to perform a test or move in a clear, ethical and communication correct manner that prevents patient interruptions to the exam flow.
- Wrote explaining phrases to say to the patient while performing the steps to keep them informed.
I did the same for counseling stations, patients note, and how to deal with difficult patients. After going through all these fears, frustration, and the aspiration to figure out this solution. After fighting all that and getting the hard knowledge. I sat down and realized that there is a great need among other medical students, interns, residents, as well as international foreign medical graduates out there to have this information.
So, what I did I put together this website, OSCEhome. Read What Hundred Other Medical Students, Residents, and Graduates are saying about OSCEhome's Systematic Approach * Do you need OSCEhome step by step systematic approach to be clinically efficient?
If I could give you an effective Clinical Skills strategy that would "outperform" the medical interview approach you are currently using, would you be interested?
Let me explain...
You didn't figure out how to drive by yourself! .. Yes?!.. In stead, you started with some one who knows how to drive well and learned from him/her those specific driving steps, short cuts, and valuable secrets that you now use them automatically unconsciously every day!
In your preparation to your OSCE exam, don't you realize that it is noticeably logical to take the same approach to shape up your communication and clinical skills?!
When you got your driving lessons, your instructor asked you to follow specific steps and perform specific procedures in a specific sequence,... right?!.. That's because these specific steps and its sequence have proved to be the most QUICK, logical, and safe practices. By strictly following these steps, you can insure your safety, the safety of other road users, and, of course, passing successfully the driving license test!.
In OSCE exams, and subsequently in your real life medical encounters with real patients, OSCE examiners want you to be organized by following specific steps in specific medically and ethically correct sequence in order to be considered a thorough, efficient and safe physician.
That is a healthy approach and I sincerely encourage you to do the same in your Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE exam preparation! Find out the specific steps and the specific sequence! That was the approach that I took!... I developed a step by step system. Verified it with my staff physicians. Memorized it. Practiced it. Modified and improved it over and over with the help of my mentors, faculty, and friends. It took OVER ONE YEAR of effort I don't know how many medical students, residents, and graduates helped to develop this advanced system! It was kind of an open project.
Finally, I was satisfied that I had created the best and the most comprehensive system of managing Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam stations and real life medical patient interviews possible and ready to start using it.
* And, was my clinical systematic approach ever a hit?!.. - As each one in my group has his or her own contacts with other medical students, graduates and residents, the system started to spread rapidly!..
- More and more medical students, graduates and residents started to contact us to send them a copy!
- They loved our Step By Step systematic approach!
- They loved the straight forward simple yet comprehensive questions system that manages any medical OSCE station or encounter!
- They loved how I organized the questions to be asked easily in an autopilot mode!
- They loved that the verbal communications skills are covered unconsciously!
- They loved that the system prevents the patient from surprises us with arguments!
- I received comments like "That's awesome,.... Now, I feel confident,.... You guys really found the secrets!.... It saves a lot of time!...."
Many felt the increased confidence in their clinical skills and communication skills in less than a month!
* And that's when it hit me!
Once I realized just how efficient it is to follow this systematic approach and saw how popular our Step By Step Guide became with other medical students, graduates and residents achieving high scores. I knew I'd be crazy not to make this system available to everyone who wants to master the clinical skills and pass the Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exams.
When you start preparing for your Clinical Skills Assessment Medical OSCE Exam, what you need is a resource that doesn't just give you copies of the same old checklists/ mark sheets everyone else has! Or, a limited time membership access to those checklists and videos which are designed to inform you WHAT should you do and you have to figure out HOW!! A 20-30 minutes videos that will show you how to do a 5 minute physical exam!! They took 20-30 minutes to show you the correct way and you have to find a way to do it in 5 minutes in your OSCE Exam!! Do you get it?!! Cannot you read that from any illustrated textbook or free online university websites?!! You don't need that.
You need a system that does the job in 5-15 minutes! Just memorize it, practice it, and that's it! Not figuring out how!
What you need is a real system that works. A system that covers: - What to ask to fulfill the OSCEs examiner checklists and cover the differential diagnosis?... You'll Get Questions Templates, One For Each Body System, Covering All Possible Patient Complaints. Templates That Cover All Related Differential Diagnosis And Covers The Medical OSCE Exam Checklists Even If You Couldn't Figure Out The OSCE Station Differential. Key Questions To Differentiate The Causes Are Included And Marked.... You'll appear Experienced!
- How to ask the patient questions without leading him or appear judgmental or disrespectful?.... You'll Get Ready To Use Questions Templates Of What, How, And When To Ask The Patient. Not Only Checklists That You Need To Figure Out How To Ask About Them Yourself In Your Medical OSCE Exam. Complete History Taking Templates For ALL OSCEs In ALL Specialties. Just Memorize and Practice Them!... You'll Be Knowledgeable and Understanding!
- How to phrase your questions and comments to be ethically and legally correct even if English is your mother language?.... You'll Get Complete Carefully Phrased Sentences That Show Respect, No-Judgment, And Yet Time Efficient And Comprehensive. Sentences Of How To Approach Sensitive Issues Like Menses, Sexual History, And Abuse In An Ethical Manner?.... You'll be Courteous!
- What to do in the physical exam part of an OSCE station?.... You'll Get A Step By Step Guide Of How To Perform A Physical Examination in just 5 minutes. What To Examine in focused or complete exam? How To Organize It In A Time Efficient Manner. What To Tell Both The Patient And The OSCE Examiner While Examining (if the OSCE examiner is present in the room). What To Do To Show Respect For The Patient And His/Her Privacy?.... You'll appear Competent!
- How to appear relaxed, confident, organized, capable, safe, and professional in your OSCE Exams?.... You'll Get That By Mastering A Proven Step By Step Organized Follow Through Guide For Your Medical OSCE Exam.... You Will Be Able To Handle ANY OSCE Station. Not Only 50 or 70 Stations. Not Only Specialized OSCEs. Just Any OSCE Station AND Real World Medical Encounters!
- What to ask or examine in an Emergency setting OSCE Exam station? How to MANAGE the patient in an Emergency setting OSCE Exam station?.... You'll Get A Step By Step Guide To Follow Concerning What To Ask, Examine And WHEN?.... Detailed How To Manage Any Emergency Setting OSCE Station is included?.... As A Bonus, Medications And Doses For Common ER OSCE Stations Are Included In A Step By Step Manner!.... Your ER Performance Will Be Outrageously Competent And Efficient!
- How to counsel the patient in an OSCE Exam station?.... You'll Get An Organized Counseling Station Format. You'll Know What To Ask The Patient? How And When To Inform The Patient?.... You'll Be and Look Organized!
- How to deal with difficult patient scenarios in an OSCE Exam station?.... You'll Get Knowing How To Deal with 20 Difficult OSCEs Scenarios Like Depression, Breaking Bad News, In Your E-book How To Unlock Difficult Medical Encounters? .... You'll Be in Control Of The Medical Encounter!
- How to know if your communication skills are sending the right messages during your OSCEs?... You'll Master Verbal Communication Skills Indirectly By Just Memorizing The Templates and Performing Them Confidently In Your OSCE Exam. You'll Learn How to sit, talk, behave and look for your OSCEs?.... You'll Be and Look Attentive, Friendly and Yet Professional!
- What to study and how to practice for your Medical OSCE Exam?.... You'll Get EXACTLY What Medical Knowledge Is Needed And ENOUGH To Pass Your Medical OSCE Exam!.... You'll Know How To Prepare Yourself For Your Medical OSCE Exam!.... You'll Be CONFIDENT in Your Clinical Skills In No Time!
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