OSCE Revision
CramPuppy has a large selection of OSCE revision notes, tips, examination techniques, marksheets. OSCEs are a daunting task for any medical student. However, as they say its all about practice. Soon you will be performing them as if by second nature. The more you do them, the better you become, and hopefully our notes on commonly examined OSCE techniques will be helpful. We hope to grow and add more content, inluding history taking.
I myself took my OSCEs in 2009 and found that if you practice enough, either on patients, or even your friends you will be fine. I literally learnt all my skills on my last firm, and managed to pass all my OSCEs with ease, although some stress as well!
Navigate to Medicine>OSCE for the notes that we have so far, and feel free to add to our collection to help your fellow Med. student.
Below I have put some links to some excellent OSCE revision books as well as EMQ books which I found useful for my clinical years.
This book is the one I carried around with me on firms, and the one I recommend, as it is useful not only for OSCEs but will be of use throughout your early clinical years. It is easy to follow and provides some clinical details as well. It is the perfect companion for your Cheese and Onion and it contains cross references
This set is very good as it focuses on preparing you for exams, the downside is, that they break it up into three books, so you end up having to buy them all.
Another option, which has everything in one book, but personally I would go with the clinical handbook over this as it is more diverse.
EMQs
EMQ revision should accompany OSCE revision as it will also enable you to answer questions that may come up in OSCEs as well as being the favoured clinical knowledge examination type of question.
The following series I highly recommend.
They are useful for all stages of clincial medicine, right up until your finals.
