2 min reading · 15 min station · reminders at 2 min

Station - Instructions for candidate

You are an intern in the Emergency Department of a Perth teaching hospital.

Dave Kowalski, a 58-year-old forklift driver, has presented with three days of fever and a cough. The triage nurse has recorded his observations and placed him in a monitored cubicle.

Your tasks are to:

  1. Take a focused history.
  2. Perform a focused examination.
  3. Request any relevant investigations and interpret the results provided.
  4. State your most likely diagnosis and differential diagnoses to the examiner.
  5. Outline your management plan to the examiner.
  • Please verbalise your examination to the examiner; findings will be provided on request.

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.

Candidate view - instructions only. Open the full station for the patient script, the examiner pack and the marking sheet.