Inhaler Technique and Preventer/Reliever Explanation for Newly Diagnosed Asthma
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 min12 checklist items
- Station type
- Counselling
- Time
- 10 minutes, after 60s reading
- Total marks
- 20
- Critical items
- 4 (missing one fails the station)
Candidate instructions
You are a doctor in a respiratory outpatient clinic. A 19-year-old woman has just been diagnosed with asthma and has been prescribed a preventer (beclometasone dipropionate) and a reliever (salbutamol) as pressurised metered-dose inhalers (pMDI) with a spacer. Your task is to teach her how to use her inhaler and spacer correctly, and to explain the difference between the preventer and reliever, and how to use each. You have 10 minutes. Take a brief history of her current symptoms and concerns where appropriate.
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, 12 weighted items worth 20 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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