The Objective Structured Clinical Examination, or OSCE, is a familiar and often daunting experience for medical students. Finally, a book has been written which provides the essential information needed to manage OSCE stations competently, and will help you to pass your medical and surgical finals.Over 150 topics are covered at the perfect lev Common terms and phrases: abdominal abnormal airway Alcohol anaemia ankylosing spondylitis aortic aortic regurgitation artery Ask patient Ask the patient assess atrial atrial fibrillation bilateral bleeding Blood pressure Blood tests bowel breath cancer carcinoma cardiac cause cell cent cervical Chest X-ray Chronic contraception diabetes diagnosis disease drug ectopic pregnancy effusion endocarditis Ensure EXAMINATION INTRODUCTION Explain procedure Explain the examination fibrosis finger flexion fluid glucose haemorrhage hand heart failure HISTORY hypertension hypothyroidism infection inflammatory INSPECTION insulin INVESTIGATIONS joints Jugular venous pressure knee lesions liver lung Malignancy medial miscarriage mitral murmur muscle myocardial infarction nerve nodes normal obstruction oedema osteoarthritis Palpate peripheral pleural Pleural effusion pregnancy pulmonary pulse reflex regurgitation renal failure Respiratory rheumatoid arthritis risk sample Sarcoidosis Scars sclerosis signs skin stenosis steroid surgery swelling symptoms syndrome systemic lupus erythematosus therapy Thyroid tissue treatment ulcer ultrasound Ultrasound scan Urinalysis urine vaginal valve vein venous ventricular