i blanked during my OSCE station and i've been a pharmacist for four years. sitting for my additional certification.
objective structured clinical examination for a specialty certification. one station, patient counseling scenario. i do patient counseling every single day. standardized patient came in with a scenario about anticoagulation therapy. i know anticoagulation cold. it's half my clinical work. but the formality of the station, the evaluator in the corner writing on a clipboard, the camera, the fake patient following a script, all of it combined into something my brain could not process normally. i gave the safety information but forgot to ask about the specific drug interactions that were listed in the scenario. which is the thing the station was specifically testing. failed that station. the rest of the exam was fine. i can do this with real patients without thinking. something about the simulation format just breaks something. is there a way to train for the artificial setting specifically and not just the clinical content.