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my exam? Tomorrow!

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just a brief overview of how my exam is like:

first day- it's the fun game called MEQ!!! or multiple extended qws. i think.

anyway, they give us a bunch of questions printed on individual coloured papers. then it's all arranged and placed in an envelope. then we are only allowed to pull out 1 paper at a time and have to complete the questions on that paper in the given time (usually 7 minutes). when the time ends, we're not allowed to go back to the previous paper and we have to move on to the next paper. this time we have a total of 8 MEQs- meaning 8 medical cases, broken down into 3 sheets of papers. so the first paper is usually the patient's history and related questions (diagnosis? investigations? a random qw) then the 2nd paper is the blood report or some x-ray or something and the 3rd paper is usually the outcome of the patient or some complication. lol. it's like playing dr.house on steroids.

then on the same day we have our regular oba- one best answer or mcq qws.

2nd day- we play another fun game! this time it's called OSPE- objective structured something exam. lol

we have 24 stations. this time it's like playing a really weird gameshow. in the exam hall, we have 24 cubicles. at the start of the exam, we;re given the qw sheet (it's like a thick booklet of 24 pages). then we sit at our respective cubicles. at the cubicles, they will have a picture of some diseased limb/microscopic picture/ an anatomy model/ some weird drawing made on Words/MS Paint (i swear, sometimes i stare at the diagram with no clue what it is at all cause there would be some bunch of squares, some triangles and arrows pointing here and there). anyway, we then have to answer the questions in the booklet within 5 minutes. at the end of 5 minutes, a really annoying buzzer will go off and we have to move to the next cubicle. so it's like a giant musical chair game. 

this is a really annoying test cause there's only 5 minutes to think of everything under the sun. and sometimes when we have to do calculations, if the calculator is broken, too bad for you. cause they are not going to stop the buzzer fr ringing and by the time the lecturer comes and fix the broken calculator, time is up.

3+4th day- CLINICAL SKILLS. lol. here is where we become pseudo doctors. We have 4 clinical examinations, 2 histories and 2 self standing stations per day. It's something like ospe except instead of cubicles, we have rooms. So we will stand outside the room at the start of the exam where the qw is pasted on the door. then when the exam starts, we're given 40 secs to read the qw and to plan what to do. Then when we enter the room (with an examiner inside), we're given only 5 minutes to finish the station. and there's really a lot to do in 5 minutes sometimes. we have to greet the patients, introduce, explain the examination then wash hands, etc. this will take up at least 1 minute. so we have 4 minutes to inspect, palpate (molest patient with our hands), percuss (do the tapping thing) and auscultate (use our stethoscope!!! most exciting part since all real doctors uses stethoscopes (jk). plus this is the part where we can just cincai give an answer cause the examiner can't listen to what we're hearing. lol). and finally thank the patient and wash hands again. phew!

for history stations, it's pretty simple. we just have to ask a series of questions then in the next station we have to answer questions about the patient's problem. well... actually it sounds simpler than it is. most of the time we forget to ask really important qws due to lack of time (5 minutes again!) or just because we're nervous. every disease is somewhat special and have their own important questions. so yea... easy to forget to ask some qws. then we will have behavioral stations too where there is an examiner with you in the room. then we have to fake empathy. lol. have to ask qws like 'are you ok?" "do you want to rest?" "do you need anything to make yourself feel comfortable?" cause honestly.. it's hard to produce real empathy in an exam with a person faking to be sick. 

for self standing stations.... basically it's exactly like ospe. see picture, answer qws.

and that concludes my post. lol. it was supposed to be a short, twitter-ish post. sigh. spent 30 minutes just on this. back to studying!