Starting Atorvastatin: Counselling and Safety
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
- 3 (missing one fails the station)
Candidate instructions
You are a junior doctor in an outpatient cardiology clinic. A 60-year-old woman has been prescribed atorvastatin 20 mg once daily for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. She has type 2 diabetes and hypertension. She is here for a counselling session about her new medicine. Your task is to counsel her, covering the purpose of the medicine, how to take it, common and serious side effects, and important interactions. You have 10 minutes. Please begin.
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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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.