Deconstructing the OSCE.

Deconstructing the OSCE.

The OSCE forms the practical part of educational and professional medical examinations and is often challenging and expensive. Deconstructing the OSCE takes a fresh approach to passing OSCE exams, teaching readers how to tackle the exam in a new way. This book doesn't provide checklists of info...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harding, Duncan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Oxford specialty training.
Subjects:
Diagnosis > Examinations > Study guides.
Medical history taking > Examinations > Study guides.
Clinical competence > Examinations > Study guides.
Clinical competence.
Diagnosis.
diagnosis.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Diagnosis
examination study guides.
Study guides
Study guides.
Guides de l'étudiant.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Deconstructing the OSCE; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Detailed contents; 1 Setting the scene; A strategic approach; Mechanics and organization; Process and content skills; Being suspicious of the familiar; Generic skills and strategies; A time to reframe; Framework of understanding; The road ahead; 2 Carrying baggage; Travel light; The good practitioner; Seeds of dissent; Core internal state; Being real; Reframing negative psychological baggage; Over-rehearsal; Exercise 2.1: Reframing baggage; 3 Moving on after failure; Moving on; Grieving your loss; Being objective; The pass zone.
  • Consider your feelingsTrauma; The OSCE is flawed?; Exercise 3.1: Challenging your beliefs; Group support; The value of change; 4 Reframing anxiety; Anxiety; A cognitive model; Challenging unhelpful beliefs; Underlying cognitions; Behaviour and physiology; Exercise 4.1: Underlying cognitions; Changing behaviour; Exercise 4.2: Breaking the cycle; Outside help; 5 Confidence and self-belief; Nurturing confidence; Physical 'tells'; Process skills; Dressing confidently; Eye contact, body language, and speech; Operate externally; Self-belief; 6 Understanding OSCE construction; OSCE development.
  • Blueprinting and station developmentMarking; 7 Forming a connection; Being empathic; Emotional weight; Body language and facial expression; Distilling empathy; Exercise 7.1: Dissecting and repackaging empathy; Empathy tone; Mirroring; Learning to listen; Exercise 7.2: Learning to listen; Essentials; 8 Rehearsal; The need to rehearse; Rehearsal strategies; Raw study material; The whole performance; 9 Studying in a group; Rationale for study groups; Group membership; Learning to be critical; Group ownership; Personal feedback; Separate the facts from the feelings; Assigning roles.
  • Be a team playerPost-session objective analysis; Post-session feelings; 10 Modelling; Diagnostic edge; A modelling strategy; Exercise 10.1: Modelling; Modelling ourselves; Using video; 11 Build your skills toolkit, part 1: getting started; Introduction to your skills toolkit; From context-specific to modular, transferrable skills; Building your toolkit; Exercise 11.1: Filing your skills- introduction; Exercise 11.2: Filing your skills- physical examination; Dissecting and linking to contextual elements; Exercise 11.3: Dissecting and repackaging clinical skills.
  • 12 Build your skills toolkit, part 2: general aspectsGeneric OSCE themes; Seeking permission; Starting open; The stalled scenario; Being structured and understood; Establish the need; Being collaborative; Taking charge; Steering the ship; Assessing impact; Following a lead; Body language; Active listening and vocal tics; 13 Build your skills toolkit, part 3: history taking; Generic interview skills; Clinical narrative; Assessing form, not content; Assessing risk and urgency; Consider capacity; Summarizing; Integrated history and examination; Drugs and alcohol; Screening the wider history.

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