Exam Center: Houston Exam Date: 10.August.2007 Result: Passed Weeks for Result: about 6 My Experience: First a thank you to this site and all contributers, your posts were very helpful in exam preparation. My first patient encounter was an unmitigated disaster. I could not imagine what the patient had, what they were doing in hospital, why they were seeing a doctor and couldn't tell where the whole interveiw process was going. The SP's are super well trained, they volunteer nothing. i was done in five minutes and had ten minutes outside the patients door to post mortem the whole thing. Funnily outside the door, its amazing the clarity one gets and you quickly remember all you should have asked, and weep in misery. After a desperate prayer, the rest went quite well, most were straight forward common out patient encounters. On one encounter I forgot to wash my hands and the patient reminded me, my heart sunk. Interestingly, these guys are superior actors, if you have been a doc you'd be hard placed to tell the difference with the real thing. My Advice & My Errors: 1) STAY CALM! 2) If you start to panic, things go wrong,you are at a loss refer to number one. NB: You definately dont have to pass all cases to pass CS, I have no doubt that I failed the first. This piece of info can be very useful on exam day. 3) Treat patients as if its a typical clinic day and not an exam. I have been a doc for three years and this change of approach probably pulled my bottom out of the fire after the first patient. If you think of them as SPs out to get you, the battle is lost! 4) practice My Stay / Cost / Travel to Center: usd 2000 Name : nosh

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