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Table 2 Description of the OSCE stations developed by students

From: Students benefit from developing their own emergency medicine OSCE stations: a comparative study using the matched-pair method

Station

Setting,exercise

Airway/intubation

• Discovery of a 50-year-old man showing no signs of life

• Intubation to secure the airway

Advanced life support

• 60-year-old patient at the ward with cardiovascular arrest

• Operation of a defibrillator

Peripheral venous access

• Insertion of a peripheral venous catheter (mannequin arm) in a 75-year-old female patient at an internal medicine ward

• Assessment, preparation and insertion of intravenous access

Angina

• A 60-year-old man arrives at A&E by ambulance with severe chest pains

• Focused case history, differential diagnosis of chest pain, clinical examination for chest pain

Bag valve mask ventilation

• Unconscious female on the floor

• Demonstrating the correct performance of bag valve mask ventilation (airway mannequin)

Neck immobilization

• 26-year-old woman still conscious after jumping out of a window

• Correct immobilization of the neck using Stifneck®

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation of a baby

• Anxious mother calls the doctor at the paediatric ward because her four-month-old child is not responding

• Taking vitals of a baby (mannequin), resuscitation (one- and two-person)

Central venous catheter

• Patient with hypertonia and tachycardia suffering acute pancreatitis at A&E

 

• Demonstration of insertion points of the central venous catheter, explanation of the procedure

  1. Eight stations where the students tested each other were set up at Leipzig Training Clinic. The students also marked each other using the examiner checklists compiled before testing the stations that they had devised themselves in a simulated OSCE. Please note, none of these OSCE stations developed by students were used during the summative OSCE. Stations used in the summative OSCE were developed by the responsible teaching staff.