Wednesday 30th October
Today is the day for the OSCE examination.
The students complete their post-course MCQ exam first thing and we leave the
co-facilitators to collect papers, whilst myself, Mandip and Dr. Jibril, with the
mental health reps Zainab and Abdirahman, go to practice the OSCE stations with
the actors.
It is vital that we all standardize our
marking, and also the acting, so that each student is fairly examined. We spend
much time doing this and are pleased that our individual marks correlate with
one another. We are joined by some 6th year medical students who
have kindly offered to volunteer their time to act as patients for the medical
student exam. This is also good practice for them, as through acting, one often
learns more about the OSCE, what questions are asked, what sound good in an
exam scenario and so on.
The whole day goes impeccably, with
Aidrous, one of the 6th years, acting as the most important figure
of the day- the time-keeper. The students all turn up on time and thankfully
all goes to plan. The evening is spent as a team, with the co-facilitators,
marking the examinations and finally inputting data to our spreadsheet. With 68
students, this is a mammoth task and we are so thankful for all the support and
help. We all finally end the day with a dinner together at Ray’s. The
certificates are written just before bed, which means a late night!
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