Hints and Tips for the Exam
This is a relatively difficult OSCE station because it tests candidates in three separate domains and you are unlikely to encounter many opportunities to practise it during your clinical attachments:
- Knowledge: You need to know what steps need to be taken following a sharps accident and what constitutes a high-risk exposure for blood-borne viral illness. Also, you should be able to construct an appropriate safety net with regard to signs of HIV seroconversion illness.
- Communicating with a worried colleague: You need to be empathetic and calm while trying to impart a large volume of information in a manner that is easily understood by your colleague.
- Ethics and law: You need to know that fully informed consent
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