Anesthesiology APPLIED Exam › OSCE stations
OSCE practice stations
Each station runs like exam day: 4 minutes to read the door card, then 8 minutes in the room with a warning at 2 minutes left. Speak out loud, then tick the checklist of behaviors the station scores.
One station of each type is free. Full access opens all 48 and the timed circuit.
Run a full OSCE: 7 stations Full accessFive communication stations, one monitors station and one ultrasound station, drawn at random. About 85 minutes.StartCommunication and professionalism
A standardized patient, family member or colleague. Five of the seven stations on exam day.
- Disclosing a broken front tooth after a difficult intubation Full accessDisclosing a peri-procedural complication or error · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A patient who remembers her emergency cesarean Full accessDisclosing a peri-procedural complication or error · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Disclosing a PCA programming error that slowed a patient's breathing Full accessDisclosing a peri-procedural complication or error · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A numb foot that will not lift the day after a popliteal block Full accessDisclosing a peri-procedural complication or error · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A new mother's headache after an undisclosed wet tap Full accessDisclosing a peri-procedural complication or error · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Consent for an interscalene block in a patient afraid of needles FreeTreatment options and informed consent · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Blood consent with a Jehovah's Witness before major surgery Full accessTreatment options and informed consent · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Labor epidural consent through a medical interpreter Full accessTreatment options and informed consent · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Spinal or general for a hip fracture: a patient asks about confusion Full accessTreatment options and informed consent · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Consent from a parent and assent from a frightened 14-year-old before spinal fusion Full accessTreatment options and informed consent · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Reconsidering a DNR order before palliative surgery Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A son demands full resuscitation against his mother's advance directive Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A confused older man refuses urgent hernia surgery Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A wife asks about her husband's addiction treatment in recovery Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Explaining donation after circulatory death to a patient's wife Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A laboring woman refuses an urgent cesarean for fetal distress Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Research consent for an investigational drug when you have ties to the sponsor Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Postponing cancer surgery because the last ICU bed is reserved Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- No ride home after outpatient surgery: a barrier to access Full accessEthical issues: DNR, capacity, surrogates, refusal · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A near-miss drug swap: proposing a system fix to the quality lead Full accessPractice-based learning and QI projects · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A wrong-side nerve block: preparing the M&M case review Full accessPractice-based learning and QI projects · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Reviewing your own PONV outcome data with the chair Full accessPractice-based learning and QI projects · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A quality report on cold patients arriving in recovery Full accessPractice-based learning and QI projects · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- A surgeon who wants to proceed despite euglycemic ketoacidosis Full accessCommunication with other professionals and conflict · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Reporting a colleague you suspect of drug diversion Full accessCommunication with other professionals and conflict · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Handing off a patient in septic shock to the ICU team Full accessCommunication with other professionals and conflict · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
Interpretation of monitors and echocardiograms
Three scenarios: a monitor case, a TEE or POCUS case, and a combined monitor-then-echo case from one patient.
- Monitors and echo station: CO2 that climbs, air in the right heart, collapse in labor Free3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: trapped gas, wet lungs and a pneumothorax Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: a slow wide rhythm, an obstructed outflow, fast AF in mitral stenosis Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: peaked T waves, a torn aorta, ST elevation off bypass Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: a damped line, a flail leaflet, a clot after bypass Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: a train-of-four at emergence, a full stomach, anaphylaxis Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: a vanishing capnogram, a hole in the septum, a clot in the pulmonary artery Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Monitors and echo station: a leaking circuit, fluid behind the heart, a tube that slipped too deep Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
Application of ultrasound
Three scanning tasks: vascular access, a nerve block and a POCUS view, narrated step by step.
- Ultrasound station: internal jugular, interscalene to supraclavicular, parasternal views Free3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Ultrasound station: radial artery, TAP block, apical four-chamber view Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Ultrasound station: femoral vein, femoral to adductor canal, right upper quadrant and pleura Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Ultrasound station: cubital fossa vein, infraclavicular to axillary, gastric antrum Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Ultrasound station: internal jugular wire check, popliteal sciatic, subcostal and IVC views Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Ultrasound station: femoral artery, subcostal TAP, left upper quadrant and bladder volume Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Ultrasound station: radial artery in long axis, airway blocks, tube position and lung sliding Full access3 tasks · 12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
Airway management (2027 pilot)
Assessment, the difficult airway algorithm and device choice. Format not yet published by the ABA.
- Expanding neck hematoma after thyroidectomy Free12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Awake intubation with airway blocks for an unstable cervical spine Full access12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Placing, troubleshooting and exchanging a double-lumen tube Full access12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Failed intubation: supraglottic rescue, intubation through it, then cannula jet ventilation Full access12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
- Airway examination and a hyperangulated videolaryngoscope after cervical fusion Full access12 min · Physician-reviewedStart
Team-based station (2027 pilot)
Lead a team through a crisis. Format not yet published by the ABA.