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40	Structured discussion. Coroners & Medical Examiners.
41	Role-play. Anencephaly.
42	Structured discussion. Maternity dashboard.
43	Role-play. Complaint. Mis-filed combined Ds test report.
44	Viva. Drug licensing.

40. Coroners & Medical Examiners  

Candidate’s instructions.

This is a structured discussion. The examiner will ask you 7 questions.

41. Role-play. Anencephaly.  

Candidate’s instructions.

You are an SpR5 and running the ante-natal clinic – your consultant has been called to help a consultant colleague with an emergency on the labour unit and is not available for advice.

You are about to see Jean Hathersage. She is 25 years old and had a 10-week scan last week that showed anencephaly. She stated that she did not want TOP. She was counselled, given information leaflets and asked to return to the antenatal clinical today for further discussion.

It is your task to conduct that discussion

42. Structured discussion. Maternity dashboard.  

Candidate's Instructions.

This is a structured discussion. The examiner will ask you 14 questions.

43. Role-play. Complaint. Mis-filed combined Ds test report.

Candidate's Instructions.

You are the SpR in the ante-natal clinic. The consultant has been called to the labour ward to help with a case of placenta accreta and you have been put in charge of the clinic.

Mrs Jones had a “combined test” at 11 weeks which gave a risk of Down’s syndrome of 1: 40. The report had been filed in the notes in error by a clerk without being shown to any of the medical or midwifery staff. She attended today for the routine 20-week scan. The ultrasonographer found the report in the notes, realised that no action had been taken and made arrangements for the patient to see you today.

44. Viva. Drug licensing.  

Candidate's Instructions.

This is a structured discussion. The examiner will ask you 10 questions.

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30	Role-play. Sterilisation request.
31	Viva. Waiting list prioritisation
32	Role-play. Fraser guidelines
33	Viva. Clinical governance

30. Roleplay.  Sterilisation request.

Candidate’s Instructions.

You are a 5^th. year SpR. You are about to see Mrs. Mary Fecund in the gynaecology clinic. There is a referral letter from the GP.

Read the letter and then conduct the consultation with Mrs. Fecund as you would do in the clinic in your hospital.

Referral letter.

Perfect Health Centre,

Paradise Lane,

Slagheap. SLH 678.

Your ref: BRI 07/54843.

Re. Mary Fecund,

The Shoe,

High Street,

Slagheap.

Dear Doctor,

Please see Mrs Fecund who has too many children. She wishes to be sure she has no more and has asked to be sterilised – one of her friends was sterilised recently which has put her in the mood to have it done.

Yours sincerely, Dr. John Williams.

31. Structured discussion.  Waiting list prioritisation.

Candidate’s instructions

Your consultant is away. The waiting-list manager comes to see you.

The following patients have been listed by junior staff.

The waiting-list manager wants you to:

confirm the appropriateness of the proposed treatment,

decide the degree of urgency,

confirm the appropriateness of the proposed venue,

decide any special requirement(s) for each patient.

Name    Age         Clinical problem                                         Proposed operation

JK	5	chronic discharge. ? foreign body	EUA
JM	32	1ry. infertility	Laparoscopy + tubal patency tests
GN	77	Vulval cancer. Coronary thrombosis x 2. Unstable angina.	Radical vulvectomy agreed at MDT.
RU	55	PMB x1. BMI 35.	D&C.
LD	32	Menorrhagia. Fibroids. Anaemia.	Vaginal hysterectomy.
DT	22	Does not want children.	Lap. Steril.
HB	14	Unwanted pregnancy at 10/52.	TOP
JY	44	GSI.	Anterior colporrhaphy.
JS	23	Discharge. Cervical ectropion.	Diathermy to cervix.
DT	55	3 cm. ovarian mass.	Laparoscopy ? proceed to Hyst + BSO.
EV	32	CIN3.	Cone biopsy.
UW	34	Endometriosis	Laparoscopic ablation
HT	88	Cystocoele/ rectocoele/ 2nd. degree uterine prolapse	Manchester Repair.
KN	58	Haematuria	Cystoscopy
JW	18	Menorrhagia & copes badly with menstrual hygiene. Has Down’s syndrome. Sexually active.	Hysterectomy
TB	30	Menorrhagia. 2nd. degree uterine descent. Been sterilised. Jehovah’s witness.	Vaginal hysterectomy and repair.
BM	55	Stage Ib cancer cervix. Been discussed at MDT. For Wertheim’s hysterectomy. Factor V Leiden. VTE on Pill. On warfarin.	Wertheim’s hysterectomy.
NU	60	Recurrent rectocoele.	Posterior colporrhaphy.

32. Role-play. Fraser guidelines

Candidate’s instructions.

You are the SpR on call for gynaecology. You have had a call from the main reception desk of the hospital. Margaret Barcode has come to the desk asking for details of Jenny, her daughter. Jenny was admitted earlier in the day for TOP and has been kept overnight as she bled more than usual during the procedure. When Jenny first attended the hospital she stated that she did not want her parents involved in any way as they did not know she was pregnant. She was clearly intelligent and ‘Fraser-competent’, so this was agreed. She arranged with Anne, one of her friends, to stay at Anne’s home and Anne’s mother had accompanied her to all her visits. Mrs Barcode had had a query from Jenny’s school about some minor matter and it had come to her attention that Jenny was not at school. When she phoned Anne’s mother, she had been evasive but had let it slip that she was in hospital. She refused to give any details, saying that Jenny had sworn her to secrecy.

You phoned the child protection lead and the hospital lawyer. Both are in meetings and not available for a couple of hours. You have spoken to your Consultant who said he knows no more than you about such matters and told you to go to the reception area and use your wits to deal with the matter.

33. Structured discussion. Clinical governance.

Candidate’s instructions.

This is a structured clinal discussion station about clinical governance. The examiner will ask you 5 questions.

When you have finished a question, you will not be allowed to return to it as later questions may indicate the answer. If you return, no marks will be awarded, even for correct answers.