Mock Clinical Exams

Introduction to the Revision Mock OSCEs
Mock clinical exams have been successfully held in the clinical skills centre of Queen's University Belfast, for the past four years. These exams are run in a friendly, informal way, with final year students taking turns to act as student and examiner. Junior doctors are always present to supervise and act as mock examiners for some stations, including a newly introduced 'mini-viva' station. Students give each other feedback. Many clinical topics can be covered in one evening. NOTE: As the revision osces have booked up quickly, and more people are still interested in attending, we're now going to run them with upto 4 people at each station. So you can now sign-up using the link below, with upto four people per station. To help you prepare for your station, see the example round of short cases, and also see some finals advice. If you are in final year medicine, you can now sign-up here for the mock OSCE style exams to held on the evenings of: Tuesday 3rd April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm Thursday 5th April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm Tuesday 10th April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm Thursday 12th April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm Some photos from the revision OSCE's in May 2005 and in March 2006.

Introduction to the Revision Mock OSCEs

Mock clinical exams have been successfully held in the clinical skills centre of Queen's University Belfast, for the past four years. These exams are run in a friendly, informal way, with final year students taking turns to act as student and examiner. Junior doctors are always present to supervise and act as mock examiners for some stations, including a newly introduced 'mini-viva' station. Students give each other feedback. Many clinical topics can be covered in one evening.

NOTE: As the revision osces have booked up quickly, and more people are still interested in attending, we're now going to run them with upto 4 people at each station. So you can now sign-up using the link below, with upto four people per station.

To help you prepare for your station, see the example round of short cases, and also see some finals advice.

If you are in final year medicine, you can now sign-up here for the mock OSCE style exams to held on the evenings of:

Tuesday 3rd April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm
Thursday 5th April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm
Tuesday 10th April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm
Thursday 12th April 2007, 6.30pm to 9.00pm

Some photos from the revision OSCE's in May 2005 and in March 2006.

Students listening to heart murmurs at the mock OSCE
exams - using Harvey, the cardiovascular simulator.

How does it work?
Each session will cater for 20 students. There will be 14 stations, covering common medicine and surgery short cases. Students will be in pairs, one will act as a simulated patient and the other as examiner at the station they have signed up for. Then each pair will move around the other stations, taking it in turns to do the examination and answer questions posed at each station. (If all the sessions are booked up, then the osces can still run with 3 or 4 people at each station to cater for more people.) For your information, the stations and topics that were used in 2003, 2004 and 2005 were as follows: Cardiovascular examination Respiratory examination Neurlogical Examination Cranial nerve examination Hand examination Neck examination GI examination Fundoscopy (using model head or mock patient) and Diabetes Peripheral pulses, and Hip/Knee examination Psychiatry Heart/Respiratory sounds - Self examined using a cardiovascular simulator with stethoscope attachment, and radiographs. Emergencies - Self examined (and on occasion a PRHO examiner) on common emergencies. Presenting X-rays - with PRHO or SHO's acting as examiners. Short case questioning - How you will be questioned in the two sets of short cases. Where possible this will be done by a PRHO or SHO examiner. Presentation skills - Summaries of long case type scenarios as in the exam. Where possible this will be done by a PRHO or SHO acting as examiner.

How does it work?

Each session will cater for 20 students. There will be 14 stations, covering common medicine and surgery short cases. Students will be in pairs, one will act as a simulated patient and the other as examiner at the station they have signed up for. Then each pair will move around the other stations, taking it in turns to do the examination and answer questions posed at each station. (If all the sessions are booked up, then the osces can still run with 3 or 4 people at each station to cater for more people.)

For your information, the stations and topics that were used in 2003, 2004 and 2005 were as follows:

Cardiovascular examination
Respiratory examination
Neurlogical Examination
Cranial nerve examination
Hand examination
Neck examination
GI examination
Fundoscopy (using model head or mock patient) and Diabetes
Peripheral pulses, and Hip/Knee examination
Psychiatry
Heart/Respiratory sounds - Self examined using a cardiovascular simulator with stethoscope attachment, and radiographs.
Emergencies - Self examined (and on occasion a PRHO examiner) on common emergencies.
Presenting X-rays - with PRHO or SHO's acting as examiners.
Short case questioning - How you will be questioned in the two sets of short cases. Where possible this will be done by a PRHO or SHO examiner.
Presentation skills - Summaries of long case type scenarios as in the exam. Where possible this will be done by a PRHO or SHO acting as examiner.

Students studying X-ray films at the Radiology station