Focused History: Right Upper Quadrant Pain, Fever and Nausea
A timed 8-minute history taking 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.
History taking8 min14 checklist items
- Station type
- History taking
- Time
- 8 minutes, after 60s reading
- Total marks
- 25
- Critical items
- 4 (missing one fails the station)
Candidate instructions
Setting: Emergency Department. Task: You are a final-year medical student. Take a focused history from a 45-year-old man presenting with three days of right upper quadrant pain, fever and nausea. You should explore the presenting complaint, ask a relevant systems review, and identify risk factors and red flags. You have 8 minutes.
How the station runs
- 60 seconds of reading time with the instructions above, and nothing else.
- 8 minutes on the clock, with a warning bell before the end.
- The examiner's checklist, 14 weighted items worth 25 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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A free account starts the clock: reading time, the station itself with a warning bell, then the examiner's checklist and your score.
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