Examination · 10 min + 2 min reading
New breast lump - General practice
A new right breast lump noticed in the shower six weeks ago
Written to the shape of past Curtin Year 4–5 OSCEs: 21 ten-minute single-skill stations (an examination, an explanation, a data set) and 38 fifteen-minute combined stations (history, examination, diagnosis, management). Each one comes with candidate instructions, a reading and station timer, a simulated-patient script, an examiner pack, a marking sheet and a debrief.
Examination · 10 min + 2 min reading
A new right breast lump noticed in the shower six weeks ago
59 of 59 stations · 21 ten-minute, 38 fifteen-minute
Examination
A new right breast lump noticed in the shower six weeks ago
Examination
Two days of neck pain and stiffness after a low-speed rear-end collision
Examination
A few months of aching on the outer side of the right elbow and forearm in a plasterer
History + examination
Rapidly swelling knee with giving way after a non-contact twisting football injury
Examination
Six months of right shoulder pain worse with reaching overhead and at night
Examination
Nine days of low back pain with left leg pain below the knee after lifting
Examination
Sudden right-sided pleuritic chest pain and breathlessness two days after a 14-hour flight
Data interpretation
Results consultation: explaining spirometry showing moderate COPD to a 62-year-old smoker with chronic cough and exertional breathlessness
Explanation & counselling
Counselling a truck driver on the morphine PCA pump the evening before a laparotomy
Explanation & counselling
74-year-old referred by her optometrist with cataracts, frightened of going blind and of the operation
Explanation & counselling
A young woman with type 1 diabetes who collapsed at the gym after a new routine and a missed snack
Explanation & counselling
Progressive end-stage renal disease with need to decide on renal replacement therapy
Explanation & counselling
Video consultation to discuss the laboratory result from a lesion removed from a patient's back
History
Pre-admission assessment visit before planned surgical procedure with multiple chronic health conditions
Explanation & counselling
Postmenopausal woman with low-trauma wrist fracture and bone density scan results showing osteoporosis
Explanation & counselling
Chest discomfort requiring urgent investigation, complicated by patient's desire to leave to care for children at home
Data interpretation
Drowsiness and vomiting in a young adult with known type 1 diabetes
Data interpretation
Acute-onset palpitations and dyspnoea at rest with an irregularly irregular pulse on examination
History
Three days of fever and cough in a recently returned traveller from Bali
History + examination
Sudden central crushing chest pain over an hour in a 76-year-old
History
Six months of fatigue, unintentional weight loss and drenching night sweats in an older woman
History + examination
Sudden collapse without warning while gardening, found unresponsive by spouse
History
Confusion and agitation overnight, three days after hip operation
History + examination
Acute wrist pain and swelling following a fall on an outstretched hand from a skateboard
Explanation & counselling
Dry itchy rash on the cheeks and elbow creases of a toddler
History + examination
18 hours of colicky central abdominal pain, vomiting and abdominal distension
History + examination
Two days of vomiting, abdominal swelling and reduced oral intake
History + examination
Three days of massive abdominal distension with vomiting and no flatus
History + examination
Eighteen hours of abdominal pain now localised to the right lower abdomen
History + examination
Sudden severe left loin pain radiating to the groin
History + examination
36 hours of severe constant epigastric and right upper quadrant pain
History + examination
Six weeks of severe anal pain with bowel motions and bright red bleeding
History + examination
Several months of intermittent rectal bleeding with reduced exercise tolerance
History + examination
Ten weeks of loose stools containing blood and mucus
History + examination
Eight months of burning retrosternal discomfort after meals and when lying flat
History + examination
Iron deficiency anaemia in an older man with intermittent swallowing difficulty
History + examination
Progressive difficulty swallowing food and drinks in an adult
History + examination
Coffee-ground vomiting and black stools after months of upper abdominal pain
History + examination
A settled episode of fresh haematemesis in an older man
History + examination
Fresh blood in vomit after forceful retching
History + examination
Two days of burning and blood-tinged urine
History + examination
Three days of yellow eyes and itch after intermittent right upper abdominal pain
History + examination
Two days of confusion, weakness and reduced urine output
History + examination
Six weeks of progressively deepening painless jaundice with weight loss and itch
History + examination
Six months of an intermittent right groin lump
History + examination
Two days of vomiting with a painful groin lump
History + examination
Explaining a new diagnosis of a persistent right groin lump
History + examination
Three months of positional left scrotal discomfort
History + examination
Persistent right scrotal enlargement after presumed infection
History + examination
Sudden severe unilateral scrotal pain with vomiting
History + examination
Three hours of severe intermittent left loin pain radiating to the groin
History + examination
Two days of confusion and off food in an older man
History + examination
Three days of constant right loin pain with fevers
History + examination
Six-month weeping wound above the left medial ankle
History + examination
Severe pain from a small left lower-leg wound
History + examination
Painless wound beneath the right big toe in a 61-year-old man
History + examination
Ten hours of being unable to pass urine
History + examination
Two days of not passing water with heavy legs
History + examination
A month of bedwetting by day and night wetting
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