Inserting a Peripheral Intravenous Cannula
A timed 10-minute procedure 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.
Procedure10 min14 checklist items
- Station type
- Procedure
- Time
- 10 minutes, after 60s reading
- Total marks
- 24
- Critical items
- 3 (missing one fails the station)
Candidate instructions
You are a final-year medical student on a general medical ward. The patient, a 65-year-old man, requires intravenous antibiotics. Insert a peripheral intravenous cannula into the manikin's right forearm using aseptic technique. You have 10 minutes. Explain your actions as you perform them, and ensure you document the procedure at the end.
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 24 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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Educational content for students and clinicians in training. It does not replace professional judgement, local protocols or current prescribing information.