The document outlines a step-by-step guide to mastering OSCE exams and patient encounters developed by OSCEhome. It describes how OSCEhome developed a systematic approach similar to ATLS and ACLS for clinical skills assessment. This approach integrates both clinical and communication skills in a standardized way to ensure candidates cover all relevant areas efficiently and consistently.

1. A Step By Step GuideTo Mastering the OSCEsand Patient EncountersThe Systematic ApproachDr Al Imari, MDwww.OSCEhome.com

2. Objective Structured Clinical ExaminationMedical authorities & faculties started to implement the OSCE exams for clinical and communication skills assessment of medical students, clerks, interns, residents, and graduates since the 1980s.

3. It is a standardized method of clinical evaluation that eliminates bias.www.OSCEhome.com

4. Objective Structured Clinical ExaminationOSCE is a form of performance-based testing used to measure candidates’ clinical competency.

5. During an OSCE, candidates are observed and evaluated as they go through a series of stations in which they interview, examine and treat standardized patients (SP) who present with some type of a medical problem. www.OSCEhome.com

6. Objective Structured Clinical Examination“The OSCE is an approach to the assessment of clinical competence in which the components of competence are assessed in a planned or structured way with attention being paid to the objectivity of the examination”. Harden, 1988www.OSCEhome.com

7. Objective Structured Clinical Examination“The OSCE examination tests a wide range of skills thus greatly reducing the sampling error. This very significantly improves the reliability of the examination” Harden, 1988.

8. “The real power of this type of examination lies in the ability of those responsible for teaching and testing to examine their trainees with imagination and forethought, in a reliable way, in areas seldom or never tested before”. Hart, 2001.www.OSCEhome.com

9. Objective Structured Clinical ExaminationThe curriculum tells the staff what to teach...

10. The OSCEs tells the students what to learn !

11. And that is the point….

12. What OSCE candidates should learn?

13. What candidates can do rather than what they know. www.OSCEhome.com

14. Objective Structured Clinical ExaminationThe application of their knowledge rather than the recall of knowledge.

15. The ‘WHAT’ to ask and do.

16. The ‘HOW’ they ask and do.

17. The ‘WHEN’ they ask and do.

18. How do they organize themselves.

19. How do they communicate with patients.www.OSCEhome.com

20. Objective Structured Clinical ExaminationWhat are OSCE examiners in medical schools OSCE exams, residency exams, and national OSCE exams are assessing candidates for?