Review for the Objective Structured Clinical Examination
What is an OSCE?
An OSCE is an Objective Structured Clinical Examination. During this exam, you use and/or demonstrate skills you have learned in the laboratory exercises of this course as well as in the Anatomy course. Based on previous years, examples of exam stations include:
- Watch a video of a simulated client history. At the end of the video, you could be asked to write down the problem list for that patient, or identify some client communication skills that the vet used.
- Perform a restraint technique on a dog
- Perform some physical examination techniques (e.g., cardiac auscultation, examine a limb, etc).
- Show some topographical anatomy sites on a live dog (e.g., identify some muscle groups or other sites taught in the anatomy course).
- Perform some simple interrupted sutures on a simple surgical model.
- Wash your hands properly (as taught in this course)
- Read a nutrition label and be able to identify key features of the label.
More information will be available in the Winter semester. In the meantime, make sure you are meeting the objectives of each laboratory exercise and you will be very well prepared for this exam.