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Anesthesiology APPLIED Exam Library
Standardized Oral Examination and Objective Structured Clinical Examination: the oral boards and the practical stations. Each topic is a case, the examiner’s question, the ideal answer and why it works, with sources.
Library
Study the topics
274 exam topics. Read the case and the examiner’s question, answer out loud, then reveal the ideal answer.
Practice
Take a mock oral exam
15 full SOE sessions, timed like exam day: read the stem, answer each examiner question out loud, then check yourself against the ideal answer.
Practice
Practice OSCE stations
48 timed stations: standardized-patient conversations with scripted interruptions, live patient monitors to interpret, and ultrasound tasks to narrate. Score yourself on the checklist, or run a full seven-station circuit.
Simulator
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A voice examiner that asks the questions, listens to your answers and scores them the way the exam does.
The topic library, two mock exams and one OSCE station of each type are free. Full access opens every exam, every station and the timed circuit.
Topic library
274exam topics
17content areas
856cited sources
Airway
- Airway fire
- Airway management with cervical spine injury
- Angioedema and deep neck infection: the threatened airway
- Anterior mediastinal mass
- Anticipated difficult airway and the ASA algorithm
- Aspiration of gastric contents
Cardiovascular and cardiac anesthesia
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm and the cross-clamp
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic regurgitation: acute and chronic
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial fibrillation: new onset and chronic
Thoracic and respiratory
- ARDS and lung-protective ventilation
- Bronchopleural fistula
- COPD and reactive airway disease
- Double-lumen tubes and bronchial blockers
- Esophagectomy
- Intraoperative bronchospasm
Neuroanesthesia and neuromuscular
- Acute ischemic stroke and mechanical thrombectomy
- Awake craniotomy
- Delayed emergence
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Multiple sclerosis, ALS and Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Muscular dystrophies and myotonias
Obstetric anesthesia
- Amniotic fluid embolism
- Anticoagulation, thrombocytopenia and neuraxial blocks
- Cardiac disease in pregnancy
- EXIT procedure (ex utero intrapartum treatment)
- Fetal heart rate tracings and emergent deliveryNew in 2026
- General anesthesia for cesarean delivery
Pediatric and neonatal
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital heart disease: shunts and bubble precautions
- Craniosynostosis repair: infant blood loss and venous air embolism
- Difficult airway in a syndromic child: Pierre Robin, Treacher Collins, cleft palate
- Emergence delirium
- Myelomeningocele closure and ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction
Regional anesthesia and acute pain
- Acute pain in the opioid-tolerant patient
- Amputation and phantom limb pain: what regional anesthesia can and cannot prevent
- Cancer pain, opioid rotation and neurolytic blocks
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Epidural anesthesia and the test dose
- Epidural hematoma and abscess
Critical care, resuscitation and trauma
- ACLS adapted to the operating room
- Anaphylaxis under anesthesia
- Anticoagulant reversal and inherited bleeding disorders
- Arterial blood gas and acid-base interpretation
- Brain death and the organ donor
- Burns
Endocrine, renal, hepatic and metabolic
- Acute kidney injury
- Adrenal insufficiency and stress-dose steroids
- Adrenalectomy for Cushing syndrome and primary aldosteronism
- Calcium disorders and parathyroid surgery
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Chronic kidney disease and the dialysis patient
Pharmacology, equipment and physics
- Accidental intra-arterial injection
- Anesthesia machine checkout and intraoperative failures
- Capnography: waveforms and sudden loss of ETCO2
- Choosing an induction agent
- Dexmedetomidine and ketamine
- Electrical safety, electrocautery and lasers
Ambulatory, non-OR and special populations
- Ambulatory anesthesia and discharge criteria
- Anesthesia at altitude and in the hyperbaric chamber
- Anesthesia billing, medical direction and compliance
- Anesthesia in MRI and remote locations
- Bone cement, tourniquets and hip fracture
- Controlled substances: DEA rules, diversion and opioid prescribing
OSCE: communication and professionalism
- Barriers to access, disparities and allocation of resources
- Communication with other professionals and conflict
- Disclosing a peri-procedural complication or error
- Ethical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal
- Ethical principles reference (ASA guidelines)
- Fatigue, fitness for duty and clinician well-being
OSCE: interpretation of monitors
- Monitor atlas: other perioperative and peripartum events
- Monitor atlas: perioperative cardiac events
- Monitor atlas: perioperative respiratory events
- Monitor atlas: quantitative NMB and fetal heart rate (2026)New in 2026
- Monitor atlas: ventilator modes and loops
- The monitors and echo station: format and timing
OSCE: echocardiography and POCUS
- Abdominal free fluid and gastric ultrasoundNew in 2026
- Airway ultrasound structures (2027)New in 2027
- Atrial septal defect and aortic dissection
- Basic valvular lesions on 2D and color
- Lung ultrasound: pleura, A/B-lines, effusion, pneumothorax
- Pericardial effusion and tamponade
OSCE: application of ultrasound
- Airway blocks: superior laryngeal and transtracheal (2027)New in 2027
- ESP, PECS, fascia iliaca, QL (2028)New in 2028
- Femoral, adductor canal, popliteal sciatic
- Interscalene, supraclavicular, infraclavicular, axillary
- POCUS image acquisition: probe positions and Doppler sectors
- The ultrasound application station: format and tasks