haloo...i'm back;) diz time I would like to make a confession. I H.A.T.E OSCE!!!I really h-8 dat thing wit a passion!for those who doesn't know what an OSCE is, it is a practical exam YOU HAVE TO ACT OUT AND EXPLAIN WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY? tHEY ARE hORRIBLE THING AND I HAD TO SUFFER 4 IN A FEW minutes. The 1 and only OSCE's benefit that I know is it act as a form of performance-based testing used to measure a student's clinical competence.That means there is no way that I could get out of it and it just make me hate it even more.( 2 thumbs up!)
can u just imagine, there is no teaching about what OSCE is, how to tackle OSCE, how to act in 5 mins and how not to make a fool of yourself during OSCE. this is truly ridiculous..urghh.. Personally,I do not think it really reflects students' clinical reasoning and clinical skills B'COZ OSCEs are not real clinical situations. Think about this, when would you have only 5 minutes to see a patient? OSCEs are artifical environments aiming at assessing large number of students effectively. If you try to approach OSCE stations as they are real clinical situations, you are making a big mistake and probably gaining a Z_E_R_0 4 ol the stations tested.For those who not experience the OSCE yet, try to not get involve in it b'coz it just make your brain functioning at a level
equivalent to a cerebrally compromised shrimp, the only answers you can think of are to the questions you got wrong three stations back, and your hands are shaking so much that if you're asked to demonstrate venepuncture, the examiner may lose an eye. Faced with an unconscious plastic patient with a ryles tube stucked in one of its artificial nose and you need to pretend being a angle-like nurse in the stations with the examiners which look at you with a frowning weird face. The worst part of the OSCEin my college is where the super juniors were asked to be the OSCE's models for the super seniors station..and believe this, they saw ol of our stuopid-ness during this rushing,unrealistic exam. dat was very embarrassing! I think dat I agreed for the new abbreviations of OSCE given by a medical student which suggest OSCE is an "obligatory sweepingly crushing experience," a collection of "overwhelmingly significant clinical errors" or an "obnoxiously stupefying celebration of evil." hahhahahah..I'm sure some of you out there can do better, and I would welcome any suggestions you have.
