Summary:
There's no getting away from the fact that finals are tricky. Becoming a confident House Officer involves not only medicine, surgery and psychiatry, but also communication, ethics, and practical skills. Get Through Clinical Finals: A Toolkit for OSCEs is intended to help identify these areas, to show the reader how to avoid the common pitfalls and, by combining such information, how to successfully mind that gap.

Forming part of the best selling and well respected ‘Get Through’ series, this book aims to provide medical students with practical advice on how to revise and pass their OSCEs (Observed Structured Clinical Examinations). Featuring numerous practice scenarios in all the major specialties, Get Through Clinical Finals contains the information that finalists are expected to know but are rarely taught. Written by recently qualified doctors, this is the ideal toolkit in the run up to clinical finals.

• Authored by a team of recently qualified doctors, this book deals succinctly with topics such as history taking & counselling, ethics, communication, examination skills and investigations

• Full of tables and figures to aid greater understanding, and completely up to date with the latest changes in curricula and examination format

• Clearly set out and easy to follow
• Provides medical students with practical advice on how to successfully pass their OSCEs

• This book will be ideal for revision in the months leading up to finals and the one title that medical students cannot afford to miss

Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART 1 BASIC FRAMEWORK
1. Introduction
PART 2 SKILLS IN COMMUNICATION AND ETHICS
2. Communication skills
3. Ethics for OSCEs
4. Obtaining consent for a post mortem
5. Perioperative advice
PART 3 HISTORY AND COUNSELLING SKILLS
6. History taking
7. Specific histories
8. Psychiatry for OSCEs
9. General practice scenarios
10. Medications and counselling
PART 4 EXAMINATIONS SKILLS
11. Examination of the abdomen
12. Arterial examination
13. Examination of the breast
14. Cardiovascular examination
15. Respiratory examination
16. Cranial nerve examination
17. Dermatological examination
18. Examination of the ear
19. Gait examination and GALS screening
20. Examination of the limbs
21. Hip
22. Spine
23. Lumps
24. Examination of the neck/thyroid
PART 5 SPECIAL SITUATIONS
25. Gynaecological history
26. Sexually transmitted diseases
27. Oral contraceptive pill and emergency contraception
28. Vaginal examination and cervical smear and swab
29. Obstetrics
30. Paediatrics
PART 6 PRACTICAL SKILLS
31. Basic life support and advanced life support
32. Prescribing
33. Confirmation of death
34. Interpret and record a 12-lead ECH
35. Body mass index (BMI)
36. Arterial blood gases (oxygen therapy)
37. Blood transfusion
38. Syringe pumps and drivers
39. Male catheterization
40. Venous cannulation and setting up a drip
41. Nasogastric intubation
42. Public health and evidence-based medicine
Index

About the Author(s):

Andrew Papanikitas BSc(Hons) MA MBBS DCH DPMSA nMRCGP
GP Registrar, Aylesbury General Practice Vocational Training Scheme

Nawal Bahal BSc(Hons) MBBS FRCA
Specialty Registrar, Oxford Deanery

Michelle Chan BSc(Hons) MBBS
Senior House Officer in Ophthalmology, Royal Free Hospital, London

Readership:
Medical students of all years

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