Three OSCE stations a group can rehearse without an account
For communication-skills teachers and simulation-centre heads preparing students for OSCE: a way to decide which feedback belongs in a digital rehearsal and which requires live observation.
The Library now holds scenarios built from OSCE station passports: history-taking (2023 passport), counselling the parent of a child (2023 passport) and residency counselling (2026 passport). Each follows the ten-minute station format. The student does not speak: at each stage of the consultation they choose the doctor's actions, and the case keeps the order in which they were chosen.
Two choices decide how much the patient tells
In the history-taking station a 43-year-old patient who is allowed to finish lists weakness and tiredness, shortness of breath and weight loss. A student who interrupts with a clarifying question goes down a separate branch where that list is never disclosed, and the case warns them not to treat the cut-off story as complete. Blood in the stool, the fourth complaint, appears in either branch only after the question «What else is bothering you?»; a student who finishes without it gets an ending stating that the list of complaints stayed incomplete. Starting a physical examination counts as an extra action, because the station's task is the interview alone.
The debrief speaks the examiner's language
At the end the report lists every checklist item of the passport with one of three marks: selected and credited, not selected or not credited, not assessed. Credited items name the action that earns the point, coverage is shown by section of the consultation, and extra actions and actions at the wrong stage are listed separately. Across the three stations 46 of 61 checklist items are scored; the other 15 appear in the report with the reason they are not.
Three ways to use it in a class
Run the history-taking station with the whole group before the first session with a standardised patient, then compare who found the fourth complaint and at which step.
In the parent-counselling station a dentist at a children's outpatient clinic tells a father that caries was found at his eight-year-old son's check-up and that professional hygienic cleaning has been recommended. Ask students to agree on the order of the stages before they start, then look at which sections the report shows as fully covered and which actions it lists as taken at the wrong stage.
Treat the «not assessed» lines as the agenda for live practice: eye contact, reacting to the patient's feelings and the medical content of the explanation are exactly what the teacher has to watch in person.
Eye contact and clinical content stay with the teacher
The stations train the structure of a consultation, not its medical substance. Voice, real pauses and eye contact are not analysed. Patient replies, emotional cues and clinical details that the passports do not provide are not invented: in residency counselling, the items on examination results, diagnosis, causes and treatment are not scored because no patient sheet comes with the passport. The report is a practice review without an accreditation pass threshold; the case text is in Russian.