Alternatively, you can join our community chat server and coordinate a group session with some fellow Geeky Medics. 🙌 We’ll search & match you with another user Now that I have explained some of the risks, I would really like to help you quit smoking so that we can make these risks as low as possible. Do you have any reservations about me giving you some advice?” I am even bad at work. I could not concentrate, and I get agitated at my clients. My boss told me to take time off.

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I would like to understand a bit more about your smoking and how it is affecting you. Could I ask you a few questions?” This part of the consultation is all about understanding the patient’s thoughts and feelings about smoking. This will give you a good understanding about what motivates the patient, and will therefore give you common ground to work from. Explore psychosocial aspects of the patient’s health including stressors at home and work – do these factors affect their smoking habit? The Geeky Medics bank of 900+ OSCE stations provides everything you need to practise your clinical skills and prepare for your OSCEs.Make sure the patient is aware that this is entirely their choice and offer them time to think about their decision. We’ve produced a brief video showing you how you can create your own OSCE stations and then organise them into circuits to share with others. 🙂 Emphasise that the purpose of this consultation is not to be confrontational but to explore the patient’s views on smoking and motivations to change their behaviour.

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It is important to establish early on if there are any specific topics that the patient doesn’t want to discuss. If clinicians repeatedly visit these topics it can make the patient feel uncomfortable and want to disengage from the consultation. The key to OSCE preparation is practice! Our OSCE stations make that easy by providing everything you need, including student, patient and examiner instructions and the answers to commonly asked viva questions. Student instructions

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When prompted about what I want to do if I’m being sent home] I wanna go home. I don’t need to be in the hospital… I just want to lie in my bed and be away from people. Advise the patient to commence the medication for 1-2 weeks before the quit date and complete a 12-week course Smoking negatively impacts overall health and increases the burden on the healthcare system, costing the UK government 2.6 billion pounds in 2015 due to premature death, hospital admissions and loss of productivity. 1 Although the number has been gradually decreasing over the last decade, approximately 15% of adults in the UK smoked cigarettes in 2018. 2 Station 14 – Hand examination – with questions at the end, differential diagnosis and look at picture You might also be interested in our collection of 500+ OSCE Stations that cover clinical examination, procedures, communication skills and data interpretation.

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When prompted about hallucinations] I hear voices, in my head… when no one is in the room. I can’t stop them talking to me. It happened after I lost Dominica… Assess the patient’s understanding of the consequences of smoking in relation to their own health condition(s). Explore the patient’s family history for evidence of malignancy (this may suggest an increased baseline risk for the patient). Social history I have been unhappy with my looks since the age of 10. I always thought I was ugly, my friends just lie that I'm pretty to make me feel better.Quinn V, Hollis J, Smith K, Rigotti N, Solberg L, Hu W et al. Effectiveness of the 5-As Tobacco Cessation Treatments in Nine HMOs. Published in 2008. [LINK] When asked about regular medications] However, I am currently taking 4mg of lorazepam daily for my ‘anxiety’ for two months now.