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Achieving Excellence in the Osce i ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN THE OSCE Part II Neurology, Respirology and Rheumatology This book complements Achieving Excellence in the OSCE - Part I A.B.R. Thomson ii Disclaimer: Neither the author(s) nor CAPStone Academic Publishers can ensure the accuracy of the information contained in these books with regards to regional variations for recommended indications, dosages, and reportable adverse events. With the rapid expansion of medical knowledge, there may be, from time to time, variations between what is published in these books and the latest information and consensus recommendations made by different organizations. It is the responsibility of the reader to confirm independently any practice decisions related to an individual patient. Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson iii ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN THE OSCE Part II Neurology to Rheumatology A.B.R. Thomson CAPstone (Canadian Academic Publishers Ltd) is a not-for-profit company dedicated to the use of the power of education for the betterment of all persons everywhere. “The Democratization of Knowledge” 2012 Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson iv Medical drawings by S. Lee and E. Howell Cover design by R. Burnett Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson v THE WESTERN WAY Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson vi Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson vii Table of contents Page OSCEs and the CANMED Objectives x Prologue xii Dedication xiii Acknowledgements xiv NEUROLOGY 1 OSCE questions 3 General neurological history and physical examination 11 Cranial nerves 13 The Eye 17 Eye movement: CN III, IV, VI 36 Face 46 Ear: cranial nerve VIII 52 Cranial nerves IX, X, XII 55 Nystagmus and vertigo 58 Headache and facial pain 61 Brain stem 67 Cerebellum 70 Spinal cord and nerve roots 75 Radiculopathy 92 Peripheral nerves 108 Peripheral neuropathy 113 Neuromuscular disease 121 Myasthenia gravis 128 Motor neuron disease 130 Gait, posture, movement disorder and Parkinsonism 132 Parkinsonism, extrapyramidal disease, tremor and 141 involuntary movements Tremor 151 Dementia 155 Seizures 160 Coma, delirium, dementia, confusion 182 Meningitis and subarachnoid hemorrhage 187 Syncope and dizziness 189 Multiple sclerosis 192 Neurofibromatosis 193 Temporal arteritis 194 CT of head 195 Miscellaneous 195 Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson viii RESPIROLOGY 197 OSCE questions 199 Commonly used terms 201 Chest inspection 203 Inspection: chest asymmetry 204 Breath sounds 206 Tracheal deviation 219 Cough 219 Hemoptysis 222 Consolidation, collapse, effusion, fibrosis 223 Clubbing 230 Granulomatous lung disease 233 Pulmonary fibrosis 234 Pneumonia 237 Airflow obstruction and asthma 240 Chronic obstructive pulmonary (lung) disease (COPD) 247 Carcinoma of the lung 250 Pulmonary hypertension and Cor pulmonale 253 Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) 256 Respiratory failure 258 Deep vein thrombosis 260 Pulmonary embolism 262 Pneumothorax 265 Lung abscess 265 Bronchiectasis 266 Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis) 267 Chest X-ray 271 Clinical anatomy 273 Case studies 276 Suggested practice case scenarios for OSCE examinations 292 RHEUMATOLOGY 293 OSCE questions 295 Introduction 297 Hands and Wrists 308 Elbows 321 Shoulder 323 Spine 331 Hips 338 Knees 341 Ankles 348 Feet 349 Gout and pseudo-gout 349 Rheumatoid arthritis 353 Sjögren’s syndrome 360 Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson ix Osteoarthritis 361 Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) 363 Psoriatric arthritis 366 Systemic lupus erythematosus 368 Scleroderma 370 Raynaud’s phenomenon 371 Vasculitis/arteritis 373 Polymyalgia rheumatica-like syndromes 375 Aseptic necrosis of the bone 375 Charcot’s joint 376 Arthropathy 376 Miscellaneous 381 Index 385 Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson x OSCEs and the CANMED Objectives Medical expert The discussion of complex cases provides the participants with an opportunity to comment on additional focused history and physical examination. They would provide a complete and organized assessment. Participants are encouraged to identify key features, and they develop an approach to problem-solving. The case discussions, as well as the discussion of cases around a diagnostic imaging, pathological or endoscopic base provides the means for the candidate to establish an appropriate management plan based on the best available evidence to clinical practice. Throughout, an attempt is made to develop strategies for diagnosis and development of clinical reasoning skills. Communicator The participants demonstrate their ability to communicate their knowledge, clinical findings, and management plan in a respectful, concise and interactive manner. When the participants play the role of examiners, they demonstrate their ability to listen actively and effectively, to ask questions in an open-ended manner, and to provide constructive, helpful feedback in a professional and non-intimidating manner. Collaborator The participants use the “you have a green consult card” technique of answering questions as fast as they are able, and then to interact with another health professional participant to move forward the discussion and problem solving. This helps the participants to build upon what they have already learned about the importance of collegial interaction. Manager Some of the material they must access demands that they use information technology effectively to access information that will help to facilitate the delineation of adequately broad differential diagnoses, as well as rational and cost effective management plans. Health advocate In the answering of the questions and case discussions, the participants are required to consider the risks, benefits, and costs and impacts of investigations and therapeutic alliances upon the patient and their loved ones. Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson xi Scholar By committing to the pre- and post-study requirements, plus the intense three day active learning Practice Review with colleagues is a demonstration of commitment to personal education. Through the interactive nature of the discussions and the use of the “green consult card”, they reinforce their previous learning of the importance of collaborating and helping one another to learn. Professional The participants are coached how to interact verbally in a professional setting, being straightforward, clear and helpful. They learn to be honest when they cannot answer questions, make a diagnosis, or advance a management plan. They learn how to deal with aggressive or demotivated colleagues, how to deal with knowledge deficits, how to speculate on a missing knowledge byte by using first principals and deductive reasoning. In a safe and supportive setting they learn to seek and accept advice, to acknowledge awareness of personal limitations, and to give and take 3600 feedback. Knowledge The basic science aspects of gastroenterology are considered in adequate detail to understand the mechanisms of disease, and the basis of investigations and treatment. In this way, the participants respect the importance of an adequate foundation in basic sciences, the basics of the design of clinical research studies to provide an evidence-based approach, the designing of clinical research studies to provide an evidence-based approach, the relevance of their management plans being patient-focused, and the need to add “compassionate” to the Three C’s of Medical Practice: competent, caring and compassionate. “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Carl W. Buechner, on teaching. “With competence, care for the patient. With compassion, care about the person.” Alan B. R. Thomson, on being a physician. Achieving Excellence in the OSCE Part 2 © A.B.R Thomson xii Prologue HREs, better known as, High Risk Examinations. After what is often two decades of study, sacrifice, long hours, dedication, ambition and drive, we who have chosen Internal Medicine, and possibly through this a subspecialty, have a HRE, the [Boards] Royal College Examinations. We have been evaluated almost daily by the sadly subjective preceptor based assessments, and now we face the fierce, competitive, winner-take-all objective testing through multiple choice questions (MCQs), and for some the equally challenging OSCE, the objective standardized clinical examination. Well we know that in the real life of providing competent, caring and compassionate care as physicians, as internists, that a patient is neither a MCQ or an OSCE. These examinations are to be passed, a process with which we may not necessarily agree. Yet this is the game in which we have thus far invested over half of our youthful lives. So let us know the rules, follow the rules, work with the rules, and succeed. So that we may move on to do what we have been trained to do, do what we may long to do, care for our patients. The process by which we study for clinical examinations is so is different than for the MCQs: not trivia, but an approach to the big picture, with thoughtful and reasoned deduction towards a diagnosis. Not looking for the answer before us, but understanding the subtle aspects of the directed history and focused physical examination, yielding an informed series of hypotheses, a differential diagnosis to direct investigations of the highly sophisticated laboratory and imaging procedures now available to those who can wait, or pay. This book provides clinically relevant questions of the process
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