It is an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) that includes a series of stations where you are presented with typical clinical scenarios. It includes problems in:

• Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics
• Gynecology
• Psychiatry
• Surgery

You are rated by physician examiners on up to nine different competencies per station. These competencies include:

• History taking
• Physical examination
• Organizational skills
• Communication skills
• Language fluency
• Diagnosis
• Data interpretation
• Investigations
• Therapeutics and management

This course runs 4 weeks, 4 classes per week (usually 3 weekdays and one day on the weekend for 3 hours).  Classes run between 4 hours with breaks included.

Your instructors will vary between subjects. All of whom, are M.D.’s who have qualified the Licensing Exams being taught.