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FRCEM OSCE - Useful websites - Links and References

Step 1 - Applying for exam
https://rcem.ac.uk/eligibility-adjustments/
https://rcem.ac.uk/exam-applications/
https://rcem.ac.uk/exam-frcem/
Step 2 - Understanding curriculum and exam assessment:
Step 4 - Know Yourself - Building Identity framework
Step 6 - Generic structure to approaching stations
Step 7 - Do and Say like an FRCEM
- RCEM Clinical Guidance (Individual links with relevant SLOs below)
- Domain 1 Knowledge skills and development - GMC
- SLO1
  - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6357a7d7e90e0777a45a9caa/Alcohol-use-disorders-identification-test-for-consumption-AUDIT-C_for-print.pdf
  - https://www.cmaj.ca/content/suppl/2002/04/04/164.3.323.DC1/0323a.pdf
  - https://www.rcemlearning.co.uk/modules/alcoholic-liver-disease/lessons/clinical-assessment-and-risk-stratification-3/topic/screening-tools/
  - https://bhiva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PEP-guidelines.pdf
  - HIV Testing in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised December 2020)
  - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid
  - https://www.gov.uk/health-conditions-and-driving/find-condition-a-to-z
  - Infections in pregnancy that may affect your baby - NHS
  - Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
  - https://www.the4at.com/trythe4at
  - https://rcem.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mental_Health_Toolkit_April_2023_v1.pdf
  - https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/rights-laws-and-criminal-justice/mental-health-laws/mental-health-act/
  - Providing patient information in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2025)
  - Management of Pain in Adults – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (September 2024)
  - Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2024)
  - Discharge to General Practice – Best Practice Guideline - RCEM and RCGP guideline - (October 2022)
  - ‘The Silver Book II’: Quality Care for Older People with Urgent and Emergency Care Needs (Intercollegiate, February 2021)
  - Management of Suspected Internal Drug Trafficker (SIDT) – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (December 2020)
  - A brief guide to Section 136 for Emergency Departments – RCEM guideline - (Dec 2017)
  - The Mental Capacity Act in Emergency Medicine Practice – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Feb 2017)
  - A universal FGM flowchart and reporting tool – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Jun 2017)
  - Management of Adult Patients who attend Emergency Departments after Sexual Assault and / or Rape – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Oct 2015)
  - Management of Domestic Abuse – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Mar 2015)
- Eating Disorders in the ED - RCEMLearning
- Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders:
- SLO3:

Ventilator
- https://clinical.stjohnwa.com.au/clinical-skills/airway/ventilation-emergencies-(dopes)
- MECHANICAL VENTILATION Modes of Ventilation

revision videos from EmDocGuru youtube channel - Resus algorithms - YouTube
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
https://www.edinburghemergencymedicine.com/blog/2018/11/1/stop-5-stop-for-5-minutes-our-bespoke-hot-debrief-model
https://www.resus.org.uk/library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines/ethics-guidelines
Management of Acute Presentations of Sickle Cell Disease in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (March 2024)
Management of Patients with Suspected but Unidentified Poisoning in the Emergency Department – RCEM guideline - (April 2025)
Acute Opioid Toxicity – Best Practice Guideline – Joint RCEM and NPIS publication – (May 2024)
Management of Controlled Energy Device Attendances (Taser) – Best Practice Guideline –RCEM guideline - (2021)
Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department - RCEM and RCR guideline - (March 2025)
Suspected nitrous oxide toxicity in Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – (April 2023)
Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2025)
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest in Adults – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (September 2019)
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)

SLO4:
- https://rightdecisions.scot.nhs.uk/media/syrdf4ug/spinal-injury-asia-chart.pdf
- https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng232/resources/imaging-algorithm-pdf-13061125549
SLO5:
- Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
- Summary of Paediatric emergency algorithms
  - https://www.resus.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-07/RCUK%20Paediatric%20emergency%20algortihms%20and%20resources%20Jun%2024%20V3.pdf
  - Life threatening asthma https://www.sort.nhs.uk/Media/Guidelines/Asthma.pdf
  - DKA in children https://www.bsped.org.uk/clinical-resources/bsped-dka-guidelines/
  - Neonatal birth and resuscitation
  - https://www.resus.org.uk/library/2021-resuscitation-guidelines/newborn-resuscitation-and-support-transition-infants-birth
  - Management of a collapsed neonate https://www.sort.nhs.uk/Media/Guidelines/Neonatalcollapse.pdf
- Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team Drug Calculator
  - https://www.sort.nhs.uk/Guidelines/Drug-calculator.aspx
- RCEM guidance on Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy and Childhood
  - The SUDIC Protocol - RCEMLearning
- Ingestion of Super Strong Magnets in Children – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2021)
- Management of Adolescent/Young Adult Patients in the Emergency Department – RCEM guideline - (May 2023)
- Detection and Management of Non-Accidental Injury in Infants – RCEM guideline - (October 2024)
- Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in EDs – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2020)
- Management of Pain in Children – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Jul 2017)
SLO6:
- LocSSIPs | The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
- Invasive Procedures in the Emergency Department | RCEM
- A short video of nerve blocks on hands and face - https://youtube.com/shorts/PSBJFp9TvVU
- Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (August 2022)
- Consent in Adults, Adolescents and Children in Emergency Departments – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Jan 2018)
- Intravenous Regional Anaesthesia for Distal Forearm Fractures (Bier’s Block)- Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Nov 2017)
- Safe Sedation in the Emergency Department – Report and Recommendations by RCOA and RCEM – RCEM guideline - (Nov 2012)
SLO7:
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-caldicott-principles
SLO8:
- https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/eprr/major-incidents/
- ED Patients in Police Custody – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised Jun 2016)
- The Patient who Absconds – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (August 2024)
- Chaperones in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Mar 2015)

Frequent Attendance in the Emergency Department: Delivering Interventions and Services for High Intensity Use – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (March 2024)
Screening in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2024)
Management of Investigation Results in the ED – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (February 2023)
Coronavirus Infection, Prevention and Control Guidance – RCEM guideline - (October 2022)
Mortality Reviews in the Emergency Department – RCEM guideline - (February 2025)
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)
Security and Restraint in the ED – RCEM guideline - (March 2021)
When a Colleague Dies – RCEM guideline - (November 2020)
Homelessness and Inclusion Health – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (April 2020)
Side by side: A UK-wide consensus statement on working together to help patients with mental health needs in acute hospitals
Drug Misuse and the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (May 2019)
Emergency Department Out of Hours Discharge Medications – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (April 2019)
Information sharing to reduce Community Violence – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Sept 2017)
Reducing redundant activity in the acute setting – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Dec 2015)
Providing a witness statement for the Police – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (Feb 2012)

Step 8 - Critical Literature Appraisal
- Check this link to understand common terms used in critical appraisal:
  - Critical Appraisal Dictionary - RCEMLearning
- Other RCEM links to learn more about critical appraisal:
- To understand different type of study designs: https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/resources/ebm-tools/study-designs
- CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) checklists:
- How to read a paper by Trisha Greenhalgh
  - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232266695_How_to_read_a_paper_Assessing_the_methodological_quality_of_published_papers
  - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13898018_How_to_read_a_paper_Papers_that_report_diagnostic_or_screening_tests
- Steve Goodacre’s Critical Appraisal for Emergency Medicine 1-6:
  - https://emj.bmj.com/content/25/4/189
  - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5496814_Critical_appraisal_for_emergency_medicine_1_Concepts_and_definitions

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