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

Station - Instructions for candidate

You are an intern working in the Emergency Department of Broome Hospital.

Jarrah Collard, aged 9, has been brought in by his mother, Lena, from a community two hours away with a week of fevers and a painful, swollen left ankle. The right knee was sore and swollen earlier in the week but has improved. Jarrah is on the bed; Lena will give the history, and he will answer simple questions. An Aboriginal Health Worker is available if you would like them present.

Your tasks are to:

  1. Take a focused history from the mother.
  2. Perform a focused examination.
  3. Request any relevant investigations and interpret the results provided.
  4. Summarise your findings to the examiner with your most likely diagnosis and differential diagnoses.
  5. Outline your initial 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.