General practice · History

Chronic cough and night sweats in a new arrival - General practice

MediumYear 5 · Curtin style · 15 min + 2 min reading · 4 tasks

Ready

2 min reading, 15 min station, warning at 2 min.

Station - Instructions for candidate

You are a final-year medical student on placement at a general practice in Cannington.

Sunil Tamang, a 36-year-old man, has booked in with a cough that has lasted two months. He has not been seen at the practice before. The practice nurse has recorded his observations and weight.

Nurse's noteNew patient. Cough for two months. Temperature 37.8 C, HR 92, BP 118/76, RR 18, SpO2 96% on room air. Weight 58 kg. Speaks English well; Nepali is his first language.

Your tasks are to:

  1. Take a focused history.
  2. State your most likely diagnosis and differential diagnoses to the examiner.
  3. Request any relevant investigations.
  4. Outline your initial management plan to the examiner.
  • You do NOT need to examine the patient; the examination findings are available from the examiner on request.
  • You do NOT need to summarise your findings to the examiner.

This is a 15-minute station, with 2 minutes of reading time.

Ask the examiner

Say what you would examine or request, the way you would in the station. Nothing is named until you ask for it.

Whatever the examiner recognises is revealed below. Or pick a numbered item to reveal it blind.

Investigations

Ask for a category the way you would in the station: “Can I have the obs and a set of bloods?”

Examination

Say what you would examine and how; the examiner reports what you would find.

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