A year ago, I had my end of year 3 OSCE and it was in my opinion, very terribly done. But I passed, Alhamdulillah.
I'm not sure if I wrote abt it here, let's check.
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I did not write about the exam itself. I wrote on how I felt before the exam.
Anyway, I splashed a good amount of IV fluids onto my (simulated) patient.
For this exam, I was the simulated patient for an Arterial Blood Gas station.
That means, I sit there and pretend to be a lady who's suffering from pneumonia and needs ABG.
The students have to talk to me, explain the procedure, gain my consent and then proceed to take blood from a dummy wrist next to me.
There were 8 students altogether. Generally, they did well.
But there was one who did not know what he was doing! I felt so bad for him.
He looked like a nice boy, who studies a lot. But looks can be deceiving, can't it?
And an exam is always nerve-wracking anyway.
He did not clean his equipment, neither did he wash his hands with the alcohol gel.
He took a pair of gloves and then throw one away. He tore a packet of alcohol swab and left it there next to me. He really looked as if he did not what he was doing. And I felt so much for him. Haish...
Too bad, but not surprisingly though, the examiner failed him :(
In conclusion, the experience of becoming a volunteer in an exam gave me a whole new perspective. Being in an exam but on the side of it. Not as a student taking the examination but someone backstage. I saw how the skills centre staff busily set up the place for examination. How they gathered the simulated patients and what briefing they give.
After this I won't be afraid and scared of the patients anymore :D
They're just students like me. Haha
Apart from some who are real patients with real findings, the rest are normal people :)
-Because life is a test-
-AkMaR-
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