Surgery & perioperative · History + examination

Explaining a new diagnosis of right inguinal hernia - General practice

EasyYear 4 · Curtin style · 15 min + 2 min reading · 4 tasks

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

Station - Instructions for candidate

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

Majok Akol is a 34-year-old man attending a general practice in Kwinana with a six-month history of an intermittent right groin lump that appears when he lifts pallets at work and disappears when he lies down.

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. Explain the diagnosis and your management plan to the patient.
  • You do NOT need to write a prescription or perform a procedure today.
  • You do NOT need to summarise your findings 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.