Summary:
The MRCOG Part 2 clinical OSCE examination is the last hurdle candidates have to climb to achieve the prestigious Membership of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The examination tests a wide range of clinical skills and techniques, and successful completion requires thorough preparation.

Get Through MRCOG Part 2: OSCE offers a uniquely systematic, comprehensive and focused approach to preparation for this exam. The first part of the book is divided by the areas that the OSCE stations are designed to test, for example, ‘History and management’, ‘Counselling and breaking bad news’ and ‘Emergencies’. Each of these chapters begins with a description of what the station is testing and what approaches and preparation are required, supplemented where necessary by tips boxes and figures. This is followed, in every chapter, by thoroughly worked practice questions based upon the current exam, plus a summary box and list of references and resources. Two practice examination ‘circuits’, with fully worked questions and answers, are provided at the end of the book so candidates can test what they have learnt.

With invaluable practical advice on techniques, as well as more traditional worked examples and practice papers, Get Through MRCOG Part 2: OSCE brings a truly unique approach to this examination and will be an essential revision guide for all MRCOG Part 2 candidates.

• The essential revision guide for all MRCOG Part 2 candidates

• Covers all the key aspects of the exam with fully worked questions and answers

• Complements Get Through MRCOG Part 2: MCQs, Get Through MRCOG Part 2: EMQs and Get Through MRCOG Part 2: Short Answer Questions - the complete MRCOG Part 2 revision package

Table of Contents:
About the authors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
Introduction
SECTION 1 Preparation for the MRCOG Part 2 OSCEs
1. Preparation for the MRCOG Part 2 OSCEs
SECTION 2 Techniques for specific OSCE stations
2. History and management
3. Communication, counselling and breaking bad news
3.1 General communication techniques and skills
3.2 Difficult communication situations
3.3 Better words and phrases for lay communication
4. Results interpretation and management
5. Critical appraisal of the medical literature and audit
6. Equipment, surgery and practical techniques
7. Emergencies
8. Structured oral examinations (vivas)
9. Prioritization and ward rounds
SECTION 3 OSCE practice circuits
10. The OSCE circuit
11. Practice circuit 1
12. Practice circuit 2
Index

About the Author(s):
T. Justin Clark MD (Hons) MRCOG
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Birmingham Women’s Hospital and University of Birmingham, Birmingham

Arri Coomarasamy MD MRCOG
Subspecialist Trainee in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Senior Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London

Readership:
Trainees undertaking the MRCOG Part 2 examination, and trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology

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