Tutorial 25 October 2012

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Tonight we managed 2 vivas, a discussion about prescription-writing and 1 role-play.

Viva 1.
You have been asked to deliver a lecture to the hospital staff on modern approaches to optimising surgical outcomes. Outline the key points you will include.

Viva 2.

Breast feeding: viva. Discuss the main issues relating to breastfeeding.

 Prescription-writing.
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Candidate’s instructions.

Writing a prescription would only be part of a station and would probably not get more that 2 or 3 marks. But they are easy marks if you know what you are doing.

In this case, you would probably see her with a batch of results that show no abnormality other than infrequent or absent ovulation. You would be told to discuss the results, the diagnosis and to write a prescription if one is appropriate.

Or, more probably, you would have a structured viva about a series of results at the end of which the examiner would ask you about treatment and you would decide on clomiphene. The examiner would ask you to write a prescription. They might also ask you about the advice you would give about monitoring the effects of the treatment, the number of cycles, the doses to be used in each cycle and the possible side-effects.

Now, write a prescription for this

Roleplay: Woman of 88 years with PMB. Has Alzheimer’s. Roleplay with daughter.

The next tutorial will be on Monday coming at 7pm. on the labour ward at Stepping Hill Hospital. Dr. Yassin will be talking about urodynamics and uro-gynae investigation.

There will be a podcast.