MSK & orthopaedics · Examination

Pain on the outer side of the elbow and forearm - General practice

EasyYear 4 · Curtin style · 10 min + 2 min reading · 3 tasks

2 min reading · 10 min station · reminders at 2 min

Station - Instructions for candidate

You are a medical student on placement in a general practice.

Ayen Deng, a 47-year-old plasterer, has booked to see the GP about pain on the outer side of her right elbow and forearm that came on gradually over the last couple of months and is affecting her work. The GP has asked you to see her.

Your tasks are to:

  1. Perform a focused examination.
  2. Summarise your findings to the examiner with your most likely diagnosis and differential diagnoses.
  3. Outline your initial management plan to the examiner.
  • Please verbalise your examination to the examiner; findings will be provided on request.
  • You do NOT need to take a history.

This is a 10-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.