The OSCE Revision Guide for Medical Students

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The Geeky Medics OSCE Revision Book has been crafted to be the ideal OSCE revision guide, summarising over 50 clinical examinations.

OSCEs or Objective Structured Clinical Exams are the ‘practical’ exam of medical school. It aims to prepare you for the clinical and communication aspects of becoming a doctor. They can seem really difficult and stressful, but with enough practice, you are likely to score well. I hope these tips are helpful and make you feel a little less worried! As part of the ongoing development of the Test of Competence OSCE for midwifery, we have made some changes to the existing assessments and released a small number of new stations which will come into use from Monday 26 June. These changes will ensure a wider coverage of the standards, code of practice and blueprint and forms part of our routine maintenance to keep the test valid and reliable.On 2 August 2021, we introduced the Test of Competence 2021, to reflect our new standards for nurses and midwives. Our OSCE revision guide has been crafted by the Geeky Medics team, experts in producing high-yield OSCE revision materials for medical and healthcare students.

We're the independent regulator of more than 788,000 nurses, midwives and nursing associates. Our vision is safe, effective and kind nursing and midwifery practice for everyone.Test specifications show how the test is designed, what it will assess and how, and how results will be produced and presented. The CBT and OSCE information booklets for all nursing fields apply to adult nursing, children’s nursing, learning disabilities nursing and mental health nursing pathways.

We'd like to know your opinion on what you think about the content we work hard to produce and how we can further improve to help you towards your learning. Always begin and end a station with washing your hands! Not only is it just good clinical practice, this gives you vital and easy marks. Once you finish your examination you may have some spare time; don’t let this go to waste. Look around to see if there’s any equipment in the room you’ve not used.

The marking criteria available to trusts and candidates have also been updated as we are seeing higher numbers of candidates attempting to rote learn the marking criteria. This is problematic as they no longer approach the assessment with an open mind and in some cases find the assessment challenging when presented with new or different scenarios.The updated marking guidance are more holistic and will give trusts and candidates the key points that that all candidates will be assessed on. They should be used by candidates to confirm understanding of the different skills that they need to demonstrate across the OSCE but the standards, code, and blueprint should form the basis of all teaching and learning. Each guide summarises the key points of a given examination and explains relevant clinical signs to help you ace your OSCEs! Candidates will still sit a 10 station OSCE but these changes will mean that there will be a greater selection of skills that could be assessed which will make the assessment less predictable. We will continue to develop new stations covering different skills and scenarios, so it is important that candidates and those supporting them incorporate the NMC blueprint and standards into their preparation for the test. We aim to release free practical scenarios that medical students can use to practice towards their OSCEs.