Ucem osce scenario

After years of preparation, extensive reading, sleepless nights, marriage breakdowns and caffeine – your week of being show ponies has arrived as the F.UCEM examinations are upon us. Giving hope to those who pray to the Utopian FSM we have managed to locate and leak one of the OSCE examination questions for the upcoming exams – hope it helps. UCEM OSCE SCENARIO You are the ED Consultant in charge of a tertiary hospital ED You are approached by a medical student who would like you to teach them about a blood gas that they have taken from a patient they have seen in the ED. You notice them to be exhibiting signs of psychosis with concomitant amphetamine intoxication. On discussing this with the student, they reveal they are homeless and living in a car with a homicidal cat called Boris, who has intermittent familial periodic paralysis secondary to hypokalaemia with a concomitant non-raised anion gap metabolic acidosis. During the conversation with the medical student, your junior registrar, overwhelmed by a busy night shift, collapses with a first presentation seizure after taking an overdose of paracetamol since discovering she’s pregnant. In trying to help, your underperforming senior registrar who has failed a number of WBAs, accidentally electrocutes the airway nurse whilst trying to recite the shockable pathway of adult advanced life support. The nurse subsequently falls onto a trolley of sharps that have not been discarded. They belong to a patien...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Utopian Medicine F.UCEM OSCE Source Type: blogs