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The case for the long case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Francis Odukwe  and
MacDara McCauley
Francis Odukwe
Affiliation:
Dublin, email: [email protected]
MacDara McCauley
Affiliation:
St Brigid's Hospital Ardee, Co. Louth, Ireland
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , March 2008 , pp. 117
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Having taken (F.O.) the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) as part of the MRCPsych part I, I found that the skills acquired for the exam were less helpful in my day-to-day clinical work than presentations of cases to senior colleagues. These allowed me to have a more comprehensive grasp of the scenarios. Plans to jettison the long case will lead to a reduction in emphasis on one's ability to perform such presentations (Reference Oyebode, George and MathOyebode et al, 2007).

Moreover, as a trainee for whom English is a second language I fear that replacing the long case with objective structured examination will deprive people like me of the opportunity to improve our language skills.

Thus we support the case for the long case!

References

Oyebode, F., George, S., Math, V., et al (2007) Inter-examiner reliability of the clinical parts of MRCPsych part II examinations. Psychiatric Bulletin, 31, 342–344.Google Scholar
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