• Clinical assessment, education

I will always be suspicious of a book that claims to make you a master of something. Especially in fewer than 500 pages. However, with the experience of recent clinical examinations still hauntingly fresh in my mind, I was delighted to see the long overdue publication of a dedicated OSCE text for emergency medicine. All other specialty exams have a go-to manual in times of need and it's about time ours did as well. I just had to shake off the bitterness that it came too late for me.

Chapter one reads as a generic introduction to any OSCE course and offers concise and …