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.
