Main description:

This second edition of the highly successful Easy Guide to OSCEs for Clinical Specialties provides a comprehensive yet succinct resource to get you through each clinical rotation, as well as the Final exam. Compiled by recently qualified doctors who have experienced the new OSCE system first hand, the book covers over 80 OSCE examination stations in a wide range of different subjects.

Brand new to this edition are chapters on Psychiatry, non-accidental injury in children, and an 'On the Wards' section covering both Anaesthetics and Palliative Care. All management suggestions are updated in line with NICE guidance and evidence-base, and new time-saving, student friendly mnemonics have been added to make the book even more user-friendly.

This book will ease the already burdensome workload of medical students, and help them pass their OSCEs to become junior doctors competent in a wide range of different skills in medical fields.

Contents:

What are statistics?. Populations and samples. Random sampling. Presenting data. Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates. Types of data. Mean, median and mode. Centiles. Standard deviation. Standard error. Normal distribution. Confidence intervals. Probability. Hypothesis tests and P-values. The t-test. Parametric and non-parametric tests. Correlation and linear regression. Analysis of variance. Correlation and regression. Chi-squared. Statistical power and sample size. What is epidemiology?. Bias and confounding. Measuring disease frequency. Measuring association in epidemiology. Prevalence studies. Questionnaires. Cohort studies. Randomised controlled trials. Screening. Evidence-based healthcare