The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has become widely
employed in intensive care medicine (ICM) exams such as the UK Final
Fellowship of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM), the European Diploma of
Intensive Care (EDIC) exam, or the Australia and New Zealand Fellowship
of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM).
This book is not only an essential tool for the rehearsal of OSCEs in
preparation for these exams, but also for American and Indian exams, and
any other exams within the field of intensive care medicine. The OSCE is
a style of examination that requires the candidate to present specific
information in a short space of time matched to a prescriptive mark
scheme. This book allows candidates preparing for an ICM OSCE to format
their knowledge for this type of examination whilst practising and
rehearsing against time.
The 60 OSCE stations provide a broad array of topics from past exams
ranging across the training ICM curriculums. The mark schemes are
presented in a short, punctuated form allowing the candidate access to
important points, ideal at the sharp end of an exam campaign. The 5 sets
of OSCE exams are designed to run as a set of 12. Each set will have an
array of clinical scenarios requiring swift assessment, diagnosis,
recommendations for investigations and management, whilst also exploring
aspects of pathophysiology. There are a number of data-interpretation
tools that are incorporated into clinical scenarios as well as
standalone stations for electrocardiogram and radiology analysis.
This book is an important preparatory tool crucial to the armamentarium
of any candidate preparing for an ICM exam.
