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Mastering the OSCE/CSA: Objective Structured Clinical Examination/Clinical Skills Assessment

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This is the only book available with 50 clinical cases organized case by case, with check lists of manditory questions a doctor must ask for each specific set of signs & symptoms presented by a patient. It offers a general starting place to begin the data gathering process, but you must incorporate the examination and patient note according to the ECFMG standard. This book is all there is available at the moment, apart from commercial CSA review course notes. NMS is soon to provide a CSA Review book. A good study tool, but be careful, you cannot soley rely on it to pass your CSA exam, according to ECFMG standards.

Excellent review book for CSA, especially for medical graduates with limited clinical experience. If you don't have a copy, GET ONE!

This book was a tremendous help for the CSA - it is a must read for anybody taking this exam. I managed to complete every testing station, on average, 10 minutes ahead of time. Couldn't have done it so fast without the help of the book.

I have friends who enrolled in $1000+ review courses for the CSA. I myself read the video and info they sent, then went through this book and Swanson's Family Practice review. These and the clinical experience I've had from medical school gave me the confidence and tools to pass the CSA, and now I'm in residency in the US. It walks you through the thinking process you need to pass the CSA, but you yourself have to be sensitive between the differences between the CSA and OSCE.

This book was helpful in organizing the thought processes medically; however, I would have flunked the CSA had I depended solely on it. I also had copies of review course notes which have some warm-and-fuzzies that are vital to the candidate. If a book is written that combines both the info in this book and the other info in the review courses, that one will be a must-have winner.

This book give you an idea of you are looking for: 1) an introduction of the test and assistance about how you must make your interview with "the patient". 2) Fifty cases with the check list and the number of task that you need perform for passing the station and the test. 3) Observations for each case, differential diagnosis, laboratory test, treatment....among others. The only but also very important thing that this book would have had is a CD with video where you would see complete interview for each or some critical cases taking the real time that you have for taking the test. This is obviously important because give you a total comprehension with what you will be fighting.

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As a FMG I was apprehensive to take the CSA because I did not have experience with standardized patients. After going through the cases in this book, I recently took the CSA exam and pass it easely.

I took my CSA and didn't have enough time to study for it. Someone told me about this book.....i looked at it and almost all of my cases were in the book. I would highly recommend it to everyone.....go over the book a couple of times and practice your questions.....try to make a list of your own Q before looking at the answer section. trust me u'll do fine.

The book is too simple to suit the purpose of preparing you for the CSA. It has many blank pages and the discussions are too superficial. It does not tell you how to write a patient's note which is the most important component of the exam.

The book is good to give you an idea about what you can expect to see on CSA exam. Unfortunately it has only 52 cases and it doesn't cover the writing part of the exam (how you should write your findings accordingly with USA standards)