Respiratory Examination: Right-Sided Pleural Effusion
A timed 10-minute physical examination 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.
Physical examination10 min14 checklist items
- Station type
- Physical examination
- Time
- 10 minutes, after 60s reading
- Total marks
- 28
- Critical items
- 4 (missing one fails the station)
Candidate instructions
Setting: Inpatient ward on a respiratory medicine rotation.
Task: You are a final-year undergraduate medical student. Perform a complete respiratory examination of a 65-year-old woman who has been admitted with a suspected right-sided pleural effusion. You have 10 minutes. Demonstrate a systematic approach, including appropriate communication, technique, and interpretation of findings. State your findings aloud as you proceed. The examiner will not give feedback during the station.
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 28 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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