Counselling a Patient Starting Ramipril for Hypertension
A timed 10-minute counselling OSCE station with reading time, a warning bell and an examiner-style weighted checklist including critical items, marked the way a real examiner would mark it.
Counselling10 min14 checklist items
- Station type
- Counselling
- Time
- 10 minutes, after 60s reading
- Total marks
- 23
- Critical items
- 5 (missing one fails the station)
Candidate instructions
Setting: General practice clinic. You are a foundation year doctor. This 55-year-old man has been newly prescribed ramipril for hypertension. He has attended for a medication counselling session. Your task is to counsel him on ramipril, covering first-dose effects, the potential for cough, blood test monitoring, and sick-day rules. You have 10 minutes. Answer any questions he asks.
How the station runs
- 60 seconds of reading time with the instructions above, and nothing else.
- 10 minutes on the clock, with a warning bell before the end.
- The examiner's checklist, 14 weighted items worth 23 marks, revealed only when the station ends.
- Your score, with a critical-fail flag if a safety-critical item was missed.
The checklist stays hidden until the station is over, exactly as it would outside the exam room.
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Educational content for students and clinicians in training. It does not replace professional judgement, local protocols or current prescribing information.