The Unofficial Guide to Passing OSCEs: Candidate Briefings, Patient Briefings and Mark Schemes

The unique and award-winning Unofficial Guides series is a collaboration between senior students, junior doctors and specialty experts. This combination of contributors understands what is essential to excel on your course, in exams and in practice – as well as the importance of presenting information in a clear, fun and engaging way. Packed with hints and tips from those in the know, when you are in a hurry and need a study companion you can trust, reach for an Unofficial Guide.

Candidate Briefings, Patient Briefings and Mark Schemes allows you to role play a real life OSCE exam. It walks you through each station you will encounter– complete with a briefing for the actor playing the patient, a briefing for the student, and a mark scheme and questions to ask for the examiner.

Ideal for OSCE candidates as a clear, compact revision guide, this book will also make a useful day-to-day reference guide for professionals.

• Companion to The Unofficial Guide to Passing OSCEs 4e
• Provides a step-by-step, practical guide to all OSCE exams and revision
• Practice examples of examiner questions, with model answers, to minimise the risk of surprises on the day
• Written and reviewed by doctors and senior medical students – practical guidance from those in the know
• Facilitates practice in groups of 2-3 as if going through the real exam

• References COVID regulations for exams
• New matched stations around data interpretation and ophthalmology
• Multiple answers to examiner questions in each scenario