General tips Elbow Hip Ensure you cover Shoulder Knee Joint examinations Neck Ankle and foot Hand and wrist Back GALS General Tips This can be tested in a virtual OSCE […]
Chapter 7 – Musculoskeletal stations Read More
Approach to the patient with psychological disturbance It is important to ensure you approach these stations with your standard opening and background questions, followed by time focusing on your psychiatric
Chapter 5 – Psychiatry, substance misuse and safeguarding OSCE stations Read More
Introduction The different scenarios that can be covered in a communication station are vast. Common themes revolve around: conflict resolution; difficult referral/conversation and breaking bad news. Other scenarios that have
Chapter 4 – Communication Stations Read More
General Approach A look at any history taking mark sheet will reveal three areas of high yield marks: your introduction; background, and closure. Irrespective of what type of history you are
Chapter 3: History taking OSCE stations Read More
Overview of the SBA We are officially out with the old; the SAQ, and in with the new! The first sitting of the SBA took place on the 28th September
Chapter 1 – The FRCEM Single Best Answer (SBA) Read More
Back in 2013, I wrote a post here on petechiae in well kids; it received a phenomenal number of views for reasons I don’t quite understand (I think it ended
JC: Spot the Difference, what can we do about petechiae? St Emlyn’s Read More
Lone acute severe headaches are a common and sometimes complex presentation to all Emergency Departments. There are obviously life threatening causes of a headache that we rule out with judicious
JC: Haloperidol for Headaches. St Emlyn’s Read More
We have searched every COVID-19 publication, and summarised the literature of everything published in the last week. We have highlighted those papers that will be of interest to EM clinicians
COVID-19 Journal Club: The Director’s Cut #5 Read More
Editorial note: This blog details an app developed by Pete Hulme and colleagues. Although this is now a commercial product we think the origin story, development path and product may
Major Incidents- There’s now a new app for that too Read More
Editors: James Chan @jameschanuk Global Emergency Care Fellow, ST5 in Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Anisa Jafar @EmergeMedGlobal NIHR Academic Lecturer and ST5 in Emergency Medicine, University of
COVID-19 and global health: a snapshot for Emergency Medicine Read More
