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Down the Rabbit Hole (... mid OSCE station)
You are mid OSCE station and you’ve hit a roadblock. Not sure what to ask next, where to go, where you have gone wrong? You have no idea what the diagnosis is and are getting poker faces from the examiners. What do you do next?
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The OSCE is the ‘highest order’ exam, in which a candidate ‘shows’ what they can do. This blog post includes some tips for registrars preparing for the exam.
Your registrar is preparing to sit the OSCE exam. As a supervisor, what do you need to know and how can you help her prepare?
Rightly or wrongly, the KFP has become the most feared of the current crop of FRACGP exams. This stems from relatively high failure rates, an apparent ‘randomness’ of responses and the common belief that you have to ‘read the examiner’s mind.
The Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) is the most straightforward of the FRACGP exams, and yet many still struggle with it. In the 2016.1 exam cycle, the pass rate was around 64%, meaning that one-third of the candidates still have some trouble passing the AKT.
As you may have noticed the, Key Features Examination (KFP) produces a lot of discussion, controversy, dissent and "push-back" amongst not only trainees, but also supervisors and MEs.