Content
What is the content of the assessment?
The main focus of the assessment will be on practical procedures, prescribing and data interpretation.
The stations are designed to assess the following areas:
- Focussed history-taking, including history-taking in difficult circumstances
- Examination of patients with stable chronic disease
- Safe prescribing
- Recognition and management of acute illness
- Surgical and peri-operative care
- Discharge Planning
- Teamwork
- Challenging communication
- Ethical and Legal Issues
- Health promotion and patient education
- Practical procedures
You will be expected to perform practical procedures, usually on an anatomical model connected to a simulated patient. These stations will assess both your practical skills and your professional behaviour towards the patient.
Practical procedures may include:
- - performing venepuncture and interpreting the results of blood tests
- - performing arterial puncture and interpreting the results
- - giving intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections
- - inserting a cannula into a peripheral vein
- - setting up an intravenous infusion
- - performing an electrocardiogram (ECG) and interpreting the results
- - basic cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
- - demonstrating the safe use of a defibrillator
- - performing basic respiratory function tests
- - administering a nebuliser
- - administering oxygen therapy
- - performing suturing
- - performing urinary catheterisation
- - performing a rectal examination
- - examination of the breasts
- - examination of the testes
Please note that some stations will assess more than one area. Stations will predominantly focus on conditions that are either common in the UK population or important and serious.
The topics covered will be taken from the major body systems:
- • Cardiovascular
- • Respiratory
- • Gastrointestinal
- • Renal/urological
- • Neurological
- • Musculoskeletal
- • Psychiatric
- • Haematological
- • Metabolic/endocrine
- • Dermatological
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