About
Built by OSCE examiners.
OSCE World comes from a group of experienced medical educators and OSCE examiners at several universities. They sit on the other side of the table and mark students through stations like these, and every part of it was argued out with people who do that work.
The library
140+ stations
- Cardiology
- Colorectal
- Communication Skills
- Endocrine
- Gastroenterology
- General Medicine
- General Surgery
- Gynaecology
- Haematology
- Hepatobiliary
- Infectious Diseases
- Neurology
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatric Surgery
- Paediatrics
- and more
Callum Priestley, 19
Abdominal pain getting worse over a day
20 specialties, and the list is still growing.
The marking schemeis the design brief.
Every station is designed outwards from how it will be marked. The patient, the story and the hidden detail come afterwards, built to make that marking answerable, and each one is checked against the same specification before it joins the library.
The same marks, lost the same way
Sit behind an examiner's clipboard for long enough and the pattern gets hard to miss. It is rarely knowledge. It is the question that was never asked, the cue that went past, the sensitive question rushed so badly that the patient closed up. Students leave the station with no idea which of those happened, because the one thing an OSCE cannot give you is a running commentary.
Feedback is the part that does not scale
Every school knows that specific, evidence-backed feedback is what actually moves a student, and nobody has the examiner hours to give it more than once or twice a year. So people practise on each other, which is good for confidence and close to useless for calibration, because your friend cannot tell you what an examiner would have written down.
So the marking came first
This was built marking-first rather than chatbot-first. Every station starts from its marking scheme. The patient, the story and the hidden detail are built afterwards, to make that marking answerable. It is not the other way round, which is why the feedback can be specific instead of generic.
How to judge it
Sit one station and look at three things. Does the patient behave like a person rather than a search box. Does the report tell you something you did not already know. Does it quote you, or does it generalise. That is the whole test, and it takes ten minutes.
See what it costsJudge it on one station.
Two stations free, no credit card. If the feedback is not more specific than what you are getting now, nothing has been lost.