OSCEs in Psychiatry Active Preparation for the MRCPsych CASC

1.     Introduction

Albert Michael

Part 1: Psychopathology

2.     Hallucinations

John Mathai Panickacheril

3.     Delusions

Nandini Chakraborty

4. Dissociative symptoms

R. Raguram

Part 2: Neuropsychiatry

5.     Cognitive function

Michael Albert

6.     Insomnia

Bruna Sanader Vukadinovic

7.     Sleep attacks

Shekar Raman

8.     Cerebellum

Michael Albert

9.     Frontal lobe

Michael Albert

10.  Parietal lobe

Michael Albert

11.  Complex partial seizures

Ann Maria Albert and Michael Albert

Part 3: Perinatal

12.  Regular mood swings

Jane Still

13.  Menopausal syndrome vs depression

J Kulkarni

14.  Unwell new mother: Assess

Rebecca Dickenson

15.  Postpartum Psychosis: Explain

Naashoma Pereira Carvalho and Irma Beyers

Part 4: Child and adolescent

16.  Child ADHD: Collateral history

Ananta Dave

17.  School refusal: Collateral history

Sathyaranjana Abraham

18.  School refusal: Explain

Sathyaranjana Abraham

19.  Bulimia: Explain

Anna Conway Morris

20.  Anorexia nervosa: Collateral history

Lesley Cousins

21.  Anorexia nervosa: Explain diagnosis and management

Lesley Cousins

22.  Eating disorder: Abnormal lab report

James Leaver

23.  Child Depression: Assess

Meinou Simmons

24.  Adolescent self-harm: Assess (Abuse)

Esther Sabel

25.  Adolescent self-harm: Assess (Bullying)

Esther Sabel

26.  Adolescent ligature: Assess

Esther Sabel

27.  Adolescent self-harm: Assess (Psychosis)

Esther Sabel

Part 5: Neuro-developmental

28.  Autism spectrum disorder: Assess

Regi T. Alexander

29.  Autism spectrum condition vs psychosis

Rachel Menon

30.  Intellectual disability and depression: Explain management

Sarah Badger and Rohit Shankar

31.  Down’s syndrome: Change in behaviour

Rachel Menon and Rohit Shankar 

32.  Tourette syndrome

Valsamma Eapen

33.  Self-injurious behaviour in intellectual disability: Assess

Sarah Badger and Rohit Shankar

34.  Indecent exposure in intellectual disability

Satheesh Gangadharan

Part 6: Adult

35. Anxiety

R. Johnson Pradeep

36.  Depression

Jan Falkowsy

37.  Anxiety attacks

Varghese P. Punnoose

38.  Obsessive-Compulsive disorder

Dan J. Stein

39.  OCD: Explain management

Samar Reghunandanan and Anju Vivek Shivram

40.  Hoarding

Samar Reghunandanan

41.  Body dysmorphic disorder

Michael Albert and Samar Reghunandanan

42.  Social anxiety disorder

Varghese P. Punnoose

43.  Unwell after an incident: Assess

Michael Albert

44.  Adult ADHD: Screening for assessment

Rahul Bhattacharya

45.  Adult ADHD: Explain management

Rahul Bhattacharya

46.  Adult self-harm: Assess

Andrew Mason

47.  Recurrent self-harm: Assess

Sharon Cuthbert

48.  Mania: Assess

Michael Albert

49.  Emerging psychosis: Assess

Andrew Mason

50.  Psychosis MSE

Michael Albert

51.  Psychosis-Explain how family can help

Gabriela Martyn

52.  Schizophrenia: Relapse

Michael Albert

53.  Homelessness

Ashish Pathak

Part 7: Old age

54.  Self-harm in old age

Michael Albert

55.  Late-onset psychosis: Assess

Bassey Nya

56.  Falls

Divya Hegde

57.  Wandering: Assess

Ruth Chipperfield

58.  Dementia: Home alone

Leia Penfold

59.  Confusion in old age: Collateral history

Tom Dening

60.  Confusion in old age: Explain to relative

Tom Dening

61.  Mild cognitive impairment: History

Ben Underwood and S Eralp Guner

62.  Mild cognitive impairment: Explain

Ben Underwood and S Eralp Guner

63.  Alzheimer’s disease: Explain

Bassey Nya

64.  Fronto-temporal dementia: Collateral history

Brian Lawlor

65.  Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Explain diagnosis

Anna McKeever and John T. O’Brien

66.  Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Explain management

Anna McKeever and John T. O’Brien

Part 8: Addictions

67.  Problematic Internet Use

Jeremy E. Solly and Naomi A. Fineberg

68.  Gambling

Mohammed Elsankary, Konstantinos Ioannidis and Samuel R. Chamberlain

69.  Alcohol

Nadine Bogdan

70.  Social complications of alcohol misuse

Madhu Mathew and Antony Fernandez

71.  Alcohol dependence: Explain management

Gideon Felton

72.  Anxiety and benzodiazepines

Nadine Bogdan

73.  Opioid use: Assess

Nadine Bogdan

74.  Opioid use: Explain management

Gideon Felton

75.  Opioid use in pregnancy: Assess

Cassie Philp

76.  Opioid use in pregnancy: Explain management

Cassie Philp

77.  Methadone re-prescribing

Venkata Gudi

78.  GBL (Gamma butyrolactone) use: Assess

Nadine Bogdan

79.  Ketamine use

Edwin Ugoh

Part 9: Liaison

 80.  Depression and ischaemic heart disease

Michael Albert

 81.  Dissociative neurological symptom disorder

Marisa Manning

 82.  Post-stroke depression: Assess

Tharun Zacharia

 83.  Delirium: Assess

Elizabeth James and Michael Albert

 84.  Organic psychosis: Assess

Maria Filippidou

 85.  Autoimmune encephalitis: Explain

Maria Filippidou

86.  Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in a child: Assess

James Fox

87.  Catatonia: Explain

Heba Sabry Hosameldeen and Esther Sabel

88.  Domestic violence and abuse

Ann Maria Albert

Part 10: Medicolegal

89.  Capacity to refuse treatment

John Bellhouse

90.  Capacity to make treatment decisions

John Bellhouse

91.  Capacity to refuse life-saving treatment

Elizabeth Fistein and Ann Maria Albert

92.  Capacity to make care and support decisions

Shawn Serrao

93.  Financial capacity

James Miller

94. Testamentary capacity

M. Claire Royston

95.  Recording consultation

Jane Still

Part 11: Forensic

96.  Paedophilia

Samantha Dove

97.  Jealousy: Assess

Bohdan Solomka

98.  Jealousy: Discuss

Bohdan Solomka

99.  Mental health care in prison: Explain

Abdul Raoof

100.Fitness to plead: Assess

Sophia Anwar

Part 12: Treatments and adverse effects

101. Clozapine: Explain

Alexander P. John

102. Lithium prophylaxis

K. A. Kumar

103.  Drugs for dementia

Judy S. Rubinsztein

104. Electroconvulsive therapy

Ian Rowbotham

105. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): Explain

Chinna Samy

106. Medication non-adherence

Robert B. Dudas

107. Polypharmacy

Rachel Menon and Rohit Shankar

108. Thyroid: Assess

Ann Maria Albert

109. QTc prolongation

Ann Maria Albert

110. Re-feeding syndrome

Ann Maria Albert

111. Weight gain

Ann Maria Albert

112. Extrapyramidal symptoms: Assess

Ann Maria Albert

113. Art therapy: Explain

Robert B. Dudas

114. Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Explain

Michael Shaw and Jonathan Lyons

115. DBT for EUPD

Michael Shaw

116. Family therapy in schizophrenia

Timirkant Takwani

117. Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression

Danica Ralevic

118. Suicidal thoughts: safety plan

Venkata Gudi

119. EMDR: Explain

Gracious Simon

120. Psychiatric rehabilitation: Explain

Krishna Prasad Muliyala and Murali Thyloth

121. Rehabilitation: Assess suitability

Sandhyadeepa Pany and Murali Thyloth

122. Pathways to the Specialist Registration

Nandini Chakraborty

Biography

Dr Albert Michael is a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist in West Suffolk, UK. He has been actively involved in teaching and examining for more than two decades.

Dr Michael Albert is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry in Watford, UK. He has dual CCT in Later Life and General Adult Psychiatry. He is actively involved in teaching and examining psychiatric trainees and medical students.

Dr Ann Maria Albert is a General Practitioner in Oxford, UK. She is actively involved in training and examining medical students.

“This new book, OSCEs in Psychiatry, edited by Albert Michael and others is comprehensive in its approach. It covers every conceivable diagnostic category. The scenarios and situations are extraordinary for their range and similitude to clinical reality. The book is particularly impressive in its advice to trainees – it contains lessons for life, not only for the examination. The book is a brilliant achievement, bringing as it does the highest level of clinical thinking and expertise to bear on the instruction of trainees preparing for the clinical examination.”

Femi Oyebode MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, UK

“This comprehensive work addresses what has been a glaring absence from libraries within UK-orientated psychiatry – not a guide to the ‘what’ or the ‘when’, but material on the one thing trainees themselves can control, the ‘how’. It provides an invaluable template to aid exam progression but, for the diligent student, also offers those structures that will aid progression in wider clinical practice. An admirable addition to the educational repertoire of modern psychiatry.”

David Cunningham Owens, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, UK