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Tag: OSCE

  • Moving pictures

    Moving pictures

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    There must be something in the air this November, what with a decade of blogs to read through, I seem to be reminiscing quite a lot. This hasn’t been maudlin navel gazing, I promise. It has motivated me on a few fronts. The most obvious one is that there are now new videos on my…

  • Instrumental

    Instrumental

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    I’ve had this blog post brewing for a while. Bear with me as, even for me, this is a bit niche! A common OSCE question is: “How many instruments do we need to learn?”. The simple answer is: “Commonly used instruments you would find in a first opinion clinic – including orthopaedic, ophthalmology and general…

  • OSCE alternatives?

    OSCE alternatives?

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    Any education process has always been in a state of change; it’s the one thing you can guarantee. While I know this causes stress, it’s worth focusing on what the educational process is aiming to achieve. In particular, with OSCEs, its aim is to ensure you are a safe and competent practitioner – for you,…

  • Covideo killed the radio star

    Covideo killed the radio star

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    While I try and keep these blogs as supportive, informative and educational as possible (I promise I do!), sometimes a little fun is required. During lockdown I marvelled as my clinical colleagues stepped up to continue providing for our patients, and I know this has been hard – shifts extended, clients more stress than usual,…

  • Needlestick injuries

    Needlestick injuries

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    We’re often strangely silent about the injuries we get at work – the ubiquitous needlesticks, the mystery bruises that appear from nowhere on legs and arms, the strange scratches on arms or necks. It’s not that we’re clumsy or bad at our job, it’s more that, in the average fast-paced veterinary clinic, we are usually…

  • What happens in OSCE Club…

    What happens in OSCE Club…

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    Practising for objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) can be tough at home or work. The exams are set to assess specific tasks we carry out as part of our larger skills base. In particular, tasks such as checking a urinary catheter or carrying out tube feeding are a snapshot of the critical areas of safe…

  • Learning communities for vets and nurses

    Learning communities for vets and nurses

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    Following on from my previous blog on new vet and vet nurse schools I wanted to write an almost parallel piece about the learning communities we create and the importance of these to our future vets and VNs. What is a learning community? In the strictest sense, a learning community is a group that meets to…

  • What goes around comes around

    What goes around comes around

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    For the first time in a very long time I am coping with the horror of horrors – a dog with an EC. A Buster collar. The cone of shame. Hollie (the Peke) had some facial surgery recently, and therefore has a cat-sized collar. I’ve long said I think selecting the right-sized collar and fitting…

  • What future for global VN community?

    What future for global VN community?

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    Warning – political blog. Im so pleased to read the BVA/RCVS letter to the Prime Minister. While the initial shock of the Brexit vote has dulled, we still face the uncertainty of what Article 50 and our PM’s negotiations mean in the longer term. While this affects every sector of our lives, the effects on our…

  • RCVS council election manifesto: Melissa Donald

    RCVS council election manifesto: Melissa Donald

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    MELISSA DONALD BVMS, MRCVS Otters View, Purclewan Mill, Dalrymple, East Ayrshire KA6 6AN. T 01292 560083 M 07921 384852 E melissadonald88@gmail.com PROPOSERS: Alison Lambert, Freda Scott-Park I started as a food animal intern at Iowa State University, having graduated from Glasgow (1987). After two children, my first full-time position was in a traditional mixed two-person…