Questions about OSCEY, answered plainly.

OSCEY is an app for practising OSCE stations by speaking. You consult out loud with a simulated patient, request examination findings aloud, and afterwards read a debrief that breaks your performance down domain by domain. You can run single stations or full mock circuits.

Doctors preparing for OSCE-style licensing exams — PLAB 2, UKMLA CPSA, AMC Clinical, NAC OSCE, NZREX, PRES Level 3 — and medical students facing school OSCEs and finals.

Six named circuits — PLAB 2, UKMLA CPSA, AMC Clinical, NZREX Clinical, NAC OSCE and PRES Level 3 — plus a general medical-school OSCE track.

iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets, in portrait and landscape. A tablet in landscape is the closest thing to a desk in the cubicle.

The download is free and includes four stations — full spoken consultations with the complete debrief, not demos. Full Access is an optional subscription that opens every station and complete mock circuits. See pricing.

No. The four free stations work with no account at all. An account is only needed to sync progress across devices and to manage a Full Access subscription.

No — the simulated patient and the assessment run on Google Gemini, so a station needs an internet connection. Your debriefs and history are readable offline once synced.

English. The exams OSCEY prepares you for are examined in English, so the consultations, the simulated patients and the debriefs are all in English.

Yes. An OSCE examiner marks what you say, not what you think. OSCEY works the same way: the consultation happens with your voice, exactly as it will on the day. There is no typing shortcut, because there is no typing shortcut in the exam either.

Each station has a patient with a history, a personality and an agenda. They answer what you ask, volunteer what a real patient would volunteer, and hold back what a real patient would hold back. The conversation runs on Google Gemini, guided by the station's clinical script.

Yes. Closed, hurried questions get short answers. Open, empathic questions open the patient up. If you interrupt, they notice. This is deliberate — interpersonal skills are a marked domain, not a soft extra.

Ask aloud for an examination or investigation and its findings are released when you have earned them — just as a real station releases the card when you name the right examination. Ask vaguely and you will get vague back.

No. Typing trains recall; speaking trains performance. The whole product exists because those are different skills and only one of them is examined.

Keep speaking. The speech recognition handles a wide range of accents, and so does the exam's real marking — what matters in both is clarity and structure, not sounding like a native speaker. If anything, daily spoken practice is the best clarity training there is.

For the first two minutes. Then the patient pushes back, the clock runs down and you forget the phone is there — which is exactly the immersion the exam rewards. Most candidates practise in their heads; that is the stranger habit, and it does not transfer.

You can leave a station at any time, but the clock behaves like the real one — you cannot pause mid-consultation and come back to the same patient. Finish the station, then take the break. Rest stations exist for that.

A full run rather than a single station: station after station in order, timed rests between them, reading time before each door. It is the difference between practising stations and practising the exam. See the circuit.

Yes. In a real circuit the rest is part of the timing — a fixed window to breathe before the next bell. OSCEY times them the same way, because learning to use the rest is part of learning the exam.

PLAB 2 — 16 scored + 2 rests, 8 min, 90 s reading. UKMLA CPSA — same 18-slot shape. AMC Clinical — 16 + 4 across 20 slots. NZREX — 14 + 3. NAC OSCE — 12 slots. PRES Level 3 — 12 + 2. Plus a medical-school track.

Structurally: the same slot counts, the same timings, the same reading time. Content-wise: original simulated cases built for each exam's style — never recalled real cases, and never claimed to be. Exam bodies change formats, so always confirm against the official handbook for your sitting.

Yes. Single stations are the everyday mode — pick a specialty, a chapter or let Daily Round choose for you. Full circuits are for the weeks when the exam date is real and stamina becomes the question.

Yes. The medical-school track covers finals-style stations across the same 27 specialties, at student level. Schools differ in format, so the track focuses on the universal skills: history, examination, explanation, management.

Regularly — new cases and new specialties land with app updates, and Full Access includes everything as it ships. The library already runs to hundreds of stations across 27 specialties.

Yes. All 27 specialties — cardiology to palliative care — are browsable as chapters, and the clinical radar will point at the one your history says you need next.

It is a practice estimate of checklist coverage in that single station: how many of the clinical and communication criteria the station was watching for actually appeared in what you said. Useful for tracking your own progress — nothing more.

No — never. It is not an official result, not a prediction of your result, and not clinical advice. Wherever a score appears in the app or on this site, the word "practice" applies to it.

Data gathering (history and information seeking), clinical management (diagnosis, plan, safety), interpersonal skills (rapport, listening, explaining) and technical assessment (examination and procedure requests). Marking schemes differ between exams: PLAB 2 uses three domains, NZREX uses seven, and the AMC combines key steps, domains and a global rating.

Each station has a checklist like a real mark scheme. The debrief names the criteria you met, the ones you missed, and what a stronger answer would have covered — specific to what you actually said, not generic advice.

Yes. Every debrief includes the full transcript of the consultation. Reading your own words is uncomfortable for about three stations — then it becomes the most useful revision tool you have.

A map of your coverage and performance across specialties and skills. It finds the gap — the specialty you avoid, the domain that keeps sagging — and points you at the single most useful station to attempt next.

Every case you have met, kept: the brief, your transcript, the debrief. Revision becomes a list of your own consultations you can re-run, not a pile of someone else's notes.

That is literally what Daily Round does: one station, picked from your radar, every day. Ten minutes between shifts keeps the streak — and the skills — alive.

Four stations — one each from cardiology, respiratory, paediatrics and gastroenterology — as complete spoken consultations with the full debrief and transcript. You can practise them up to five times a day. No account, no card, no time bomb: they stay free.

Every station across all 27 specialties, complete mock circuits in all six exam formats, full progress history, the clinical radar and every new station as it ships.

Prices are shown in the app for your region, and you can cancel at any time. No countdown timers, no invented discounts — the price is the price.

Through the store you subscribed with — App Store or Google Play — in the usual subscriptions screen. It takes under a minute, and access continues until the end of the paid period.

Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own policies, because the payment is theirs, not ours. If something went wrong on our side, email us and we will help you through it.

Your history, transcripts and Case Codex stay. You drop back to the four free stations; resubscribe later and everything is where you left it.

Yes — sign in and your subscription and progress sync across your phone and tablet on the same store account. Restore purchases works from the app's settings.

Your speech is streamed for processing so the consultation can run and the station can be assessed. Audio is not retained after the station ends. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

Google Gemini — it runs the simulated patient conversation and the assessment. This is disclosed on the home page, in the store listings and in the privacy policy, because you deserve to know before you press the microphone button.

Your transcripts, debriefs and progress, so your history and Case Codex work. If you create an account, the details needed to run it. Purchase state, so your subscription follows you. Not your station audio.

Yes — always. OSCEY patients are simulated; never bring real patient details, real colleagues or any confidential information into a station. The transcripts are yours, but good habits are for everywhere.

Yes. You can delete your account and associated data from the app, or by emailing oscey@veridir.com. Deletion removes your transcripts, debriefs and progress history.

OSCEY is built data-minimally: no account required to try, no advertising profiles, no sale of personal data, and deletion on request. The privacy policy sets out the legal bases and your rights in full.

No. There are no ads, no data brokerage, no advertising profiles. Data is processed to run the product — the consultation, the debrief, your history — and nothing else.

Check the OS-level permission first: Settings → OSCEY → Microphone. Then check nothing else is holding the mic (calls, voice notes). Wired or Bluetooth headsets both work. If it still fails, contact support with your device model.

Usually the network — the consultation streams live, so a weak connection degrades it. Move to Wi-Fi or stronger signal and retry the station. If a station genuinely misbehaves, use the in-app feedback after the debrief; those reports are read.

Sign in with the same store account you subscribed with, then use Restore purchases in OSCEY's settings. If the subscription does not appear, email oscey@veridir.com with your store receipt.

The fastest route is the feedback form after a station debrief — it attaches the technical context automatically. For anything else, the support page has the contact options. Device model, OS version and what you expected versus what happened is the report that gets fixed fastest.

Email oscey@veridir.com. It is read by the people who build the app, and we reply — usually within two working days.