Essential Examination, third edition: Step-by-step guides to clinical examination scenarios with practical tips and key facts for OSCEs

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Neuware - Essential Examination is a bestselling text for students in medicine and related subjects. You will receive a results letter and be invited to attend an admission ceremony hosted by the college of your preference. This format remains the key feature of the book, which has steadily expanded over the past 10 years. Gives the reasons for every sign we check for (useful for examiners' questions in OSCEs) and also gives differential diagnosis. In a separate column is a collection of key information: potential findings, differential diagnoses of clinical signs and practical tips.

Some examinations, of course, follow their own unique sequence; these are the most difficult to learn and so you must become very familiar with them. You can also get help passing the exam at BMJ’s examination support platform OnExamination which will soon be launching an exciting AI revision tool for the PACES exam.There are now two communication encounters instead of one (stations 1+4), where examiners observe and assess 10-minute interactions with patients/surrogates.

B. Ruthven, MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), wrote this best-selling clinical exam and OSCE book while he was a medical student. It is concise, so you don't feel like you have to read through loads of text to find what you want, plus the contents page is extremely useful for quickly finding what you need. Often in an OSCE you will not be asked to complete the full examination of a particular body system.I love the fact that this book is really condensed – has everything that you need to know about each examination in a couple of pages. However the edition that arrived was not the same as pictured therefore unsuitable for our collection. Once purchased, you can view your eBook through the Kortext app, available to download for Windows, Android and iOS devices. If you get lost in an examination (so easy to do under the pressure of assessment), default to these basic frameworks to get yourself back on track.