Traditional Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are psychometrically sound but have the limitation of fragmenting complex clinical cases into brief stations.
During the brief station-break, the show's producer told me to "be angrier".
The metro's metaphorical resonances crucially include the sense of life as the brief, lighted stations and death as the long, "maggoty" darkness in between.
However, the fragmentation of complex clinical cases into brief OSCE stations may result in some loss of validity as the authenticity of comprehensively examining a single patient is lost.
But the French gallery would prove to be just a brief way station for this "Paysage".
"Thanks for getting me!" Following his traditional rundown of film credits ("The Hangover: In it! Hangover 2: In it! Due Date: In it! Funny People: Cut out"). he re-enacted his brief police-station scene in The Hangover with three eager volunteers.
Together we stop off at the police station, briefing the fresh batch of officers.
There was a moment of recognition when the picture went up on the screen at the briefing at the station.
We concluded that regardless the number of clinicians used as examiners in OSCE assessment, early exposure on OSCE, comprehensive training and OSCE station briefing prior to the examination are recommended.
