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

Station - Instructions for candidate

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

Rosa Bianchi, a 74-year-old retired university lecturer, has been brought in by her daughter after her vision in the right eye 'went grey' for about five minutes this morning and then came back. She has had a headache for two weeks. The triage nurse has recorded her observations and she is now sitting in a cubicle, feeling well. Her daughter has gone to move the car.

Your tasks are to:

  1. Take a focused history.
  2. Request any relevant investigations and interpret the results provided.
  3. State your most likely diagnosis and differential diagnoses to the examiner.
  4. Outline your immediate management plan to the examiner.
  • You do NOT need to examine the patient; examination findings will be provided by the examiner on request.
  • You do not need to write a drug chart in this station.

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.

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