

FRCEM OSCE - Useful websites - Links and References
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Step 1 - Applying for exam
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Step 2 - Understanding curriculum and exam assessment:
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Step 4 - Know Yourself - Building Identity framework
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Step 6 - Generic structure to approaching stations
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Step 7 - Do and Say like an FRCEM
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RCEM Clinical Guidance (Individual links with relevant SLOs below)
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SLO1
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https://www.cmaj.ca/content/suppl/2002/04/04/164.3.323.DC1/0323a.pdf
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https://bhiva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PEP-guidelines.pdf
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HIV Testing in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised December 2020)
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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
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https://www.gov.uk/health-conditions-and-driving/find-condition-a-to-z
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Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
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https://rcem.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mental_Health_Toolkit_April_2023_v1.pdf
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Providing patient information in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2025)
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Management of Pain in Adults – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (September 2024)
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Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2024)
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Discharge to General Practice – Best Practice Guideline - RCEM and RCGP guideline - (October 2022)
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‘The Silver Book II’: Quality Care for Older People with Urgent and Emergency Care Needs (Intercollegiate, February 2021)
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Management of Suspected Internal Drug Trafficker (SIDT) – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (December 2020)
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A brief guide to Section 136 for Emergency Departments – RCEM guideline - (Dec 2017)
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The Mental Capacity Act in Emergency Medicine Practice – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Feb 2017)
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A universal FGM flowchart and reporting tool – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Jun 2017)
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Management of Adult Patients who attend Emergency Departments after Sexual Assault and / or Rape – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Oct 2015)
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Management of Domestic Abuse – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Mar 2015)
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SLO3:
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https://www.resus.org.uk/professional-library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines
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https://www.resus.org.uk/library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines/special-circumstances-guidelines
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https://www.resus.org.uk/library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines/post-resuscitation-care-guidelines
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On anaphylaxis https://www.resus.org.uk/library/additional-guidance/guidance-anaphylaxis
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Emergency Management of Tracheostomy and Laryngectomy:
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https://tracheostomy.org.uk/storage/files/Emergency%20laryngectomy%20management.pdf
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https://tracheostomy.org.uk/storage/files/Emergency%20tracheostomy%20management.pdf
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Ventilator
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revision videos from EmDocGuru youtube channel - Resus algorithms - YouTube
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Toxicology: Guidelines by NPIS and RCEM on antidote availability - https://www.toxbase.org/498b9e/globalassets/upload/antidotes/rcem-npis-antidote-guidelines/rcem_npis_antidote_guideline_list_2021_final_v7.pdf
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https://www.resus.org.uk/library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines/ethics-guidelines
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Management of Acute Presentations of Sickle Cell Disease in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (March 2024)
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Management of Patients with Suspected but Unidentified Poisoning in the Emergency Department – RCEM guideline - (April 2025)
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Acute Opioid Toxicity – Best Practice Guideline – Joint RCEM and NPIS publication – (May 2024)
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Management of Controlled Energy Device Attendances (Taser) – Best Practice Guideline –RCEM guideline - (2021)
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Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department - RCEM and RCR guideline - (March 2025)
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Suspected nitrous oxide toxicity in Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – (April 2023)
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Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2025)
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Traumatic Cardiac Arrest in Adults – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (September 2019)
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Management and Transfer of Patients with a Diagnosis of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm to a Specialist Vascular Centre – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (January 2019)
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SLO4:
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SLO5:
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Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
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Summary of Paediatric emergency algorithms
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Life threatening asthma https://www.sort.nhs.uk/Media/Guidelines/Asthma.pdf
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DKA in children https://www.bsped.org.uk/clinical-resources/bsped-dka-guidelines/
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Neonatal birth and resuscitation
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Management of a collapsed neonate https://www.sort.nhs.uk/Media/Guidelines/Neonatalcollapse.pdf
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Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team Drug Calculator
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RCEM guidance on Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy and Childhood
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Ingestion of Super Strong Magnets in Children – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2021)
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Management of Adolescent/Young Adult Patients in the Emergency Department – RCEM guideline - (May 2023)
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Detection and Management of Non-Accidental Injury in Infants – RCEM guideline - (October 2024)
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Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in EDs – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2020)
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Management of Pain in Children – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Jul 2017)
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SLO6:
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A short video of nerve blocks on hands and face - https://youtube.com/shorts/PSBJFp9TvVU
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Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (August 2022)
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Consent in Adults, Adolescents and Children in Emergency Departments – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Jan 2018)
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Intravenous Regional Anaesthesia for Distal Forearm Fractures (Bier’s Block)- Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Nov 2017)
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Safe Sedation in the Emergency Department – Report and Recommendations by RCOA and RCEM – RCEM guideline - (Nov 2012)
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SLO7:
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SLO8:
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ED Patients in Police Custody – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Jun 2016)
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The Patient who Absconds – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (August 2024)
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Chaperones in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Mar 2015)
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SLO 9:
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SLO 12:
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Frequent Attendance in the Emergency Department: Delivering Interventions and Services for High Intensity Use – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (March 2024)
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Screening in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2024)
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Management of Investigation Results in the ED – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2023)
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Coronavirus Infection, Prevention and Control Guidance – RCEM guideline - (October 2022)
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Mortality Reviews in the Emergency Department – RCEM guideline - (February 2025)
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Better Together: Collaborative Working Between Emergency and Critical Care – A framework for improved collaborative working between Emergency Medicine (EM) and Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) – RCEM guideline - (July 2021)
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Security and Restraint in the ED – RCEM guideline - (March 2021)
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When a Colleague Dies – RCEM guideline - (November 2020)
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Homelessness and Inclusion Health – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (April 2020)
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Drug Misuse and the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2019)
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Emergency Department Out of Hours Discharge Medications – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (April 2019)
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Information sharing to reduce Community Violence – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Sept 2017)
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Reducing redundant activity in the acute setting – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Dec 2015)
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Providing a witness statement for the Police – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Feb 2012)
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https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/patient-safety-insight/incident-response-framework/
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GMC guidance to manage ethical and medico-legal issues:
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Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information
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Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making
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Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information
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Openness and honesty when things go wrong: the professional duty of candour
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Providing witness statements or expert evidence as part of legal proceedings
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Good practice in proposing, prescribing, providing and managing medicines and devices
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Step 8 - Critical Literature Appraisal
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Check this link to understand common terms used in critical appraisal:
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Other RCEM links to learn more about critical appraisal:
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To understand different type of study designs: https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/resources/ebm-tools/study-designs
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CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) checklists:
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How to read a paper by Trisha Greenhalgh
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Steve Goodacre’s Critical Appraisal for Emergency Medicine 1-6:
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