'My wife and I found John...'
Guess what I did today...
An actor or simulate patient's parent~ for PMC's Final Examination.
I'd done many of the PMC's jobs, such as time keeper, runner, and also steward, but this is the first time for me to be an actor and boy, it was fun!
Well for me I guess... the students were all final year medical students and since this is their final examination, they were very panicky and shaky.
The funniest thing about this is that I'm acting as a boy's father, where the boy, John was found unconscious at home today. The students are required to take a focused history from me, the father.
Did I mentioned that the boy is 11 years old? So a 18 years old has a 11 years old son?! WTF!!
Well most of the students have similar thoughts when they saw me. I think... since a few asked me questions like, "How old are you?", "Is your father here?" and "Are you John?".
For question 1 - "How old are you?", I would answer "30!". This will send the students to a sudden shock, followed by lost of words and blurring of thoughts.
For question 2 - "Is your father here?", my answer is "I'm the father?!". Normally students will be surprised and tends to follow with "So... YOU are the father?!".
For question 3 - "Are you John?", My answer is the obvious "No!", then the students will tend to look at the question again.
Everything will settle down after the introduction and usually I'm bombarded with questions, so I will just answer yes or no, depends on the situation.
My advice to future doctors while sitting for OSCE, READ THE QUESTIONS CAREFULLY!
Oh, also use OPEN END QUESTIONS! and do GREET EVERYONE!
That's all.
