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PRES 3868 OSCE stations. Every one of them is a conversation.
This is what sits behind the door in OSCEY: 868 spoken practice stations across 27 specialties, from the undifferentiated patient in a GP room to a capacity assessment you have to get right. Browse the library below, then practise it out loud.
Library at the July 2026 release. Every station is written for practice — none is a past exam paper.
What an OSCE station actually is
An OSCE station is one timed clinical encounter. You read a brief outside the door — your role, the task, the setting — then you go in and do the work while an examiner marks a checklist. Eight minutes for PLAB 2 and UKMLA CPSA, around ten for AMC Clinical and NZREX, around eleven for the NAC OSCE.
What makes stations hard is rarely the diagnosis. It is that you have to gather a history, examine, decide and explain — out loud, to someone who is worried, evasive or angry — before a bell rings. That is the part a question bank cannot rehearse, and it is the only part OSCEY trains.
- A brief with a real task, role and setting, and a reading-time countdown
- A simulated patient who answers, holds their own agenda and reacts to your tone
- Findings released when you ask for them out loud — observations, ECGs, examination results
- A domain-by-domain debrief afterwards, with the transcript of what you said
27 specialties, weighted the way the exam is.
Primary care and emergency medicine dominate real OSCEs, because both produce the undifferentiated patient these exams are built around. The library is weighted the same way — so the practice you get matches the morning you will have.
Primary care
463General practice clinic, outpatient clinic, telephone consultation
Emergency medicine
206Emergency department, urgent care bay, resuscitation bay
Internal medicine
101Medical ward, outpatient clinic, admission unit
Paediatrics
92Paediatric clinic, emergency department, telephone consultation
Surgery
78Surgical assessment unit, ward, outpatient clinic
Obstetrics and gynaecology
68Antenatal clinic, gynaecology clinic, triage unit
Ethics and law
57Ward office, clinic room
Psychiatry
51Community mental health clinic, emergency department, general practice
Neurology
47Neurology clinic, emergency department, ward
Geriatrics
46Ward, falls clinic, care home review
Sexual health
45Sexual health clinic
Cardiology
42Cardiology clinic, ward
Dermatology
38Dermatology clinic, general practice
Gastroenterology
36Gastroenterology clinic, ward
Urology
29Urology clinic
Orthopaedics
28Orthopaedic clinic, fracture clinic
ENT (otolaryngology)
28ENT clinic
Oncology
28Oncology clinic, ward
Endocrinology
28Endocrinology clinic
Infectious diseases
27Infectious diseases clinic
Ophthalmology
27Eye clinic, emergency department
Respiratory medicine
23Respiratory clinic, ward
Cross-specialty
20Any clinical setting
Rheumatology
18Rheumatology clinic
Palliative care
17Inpatient ward, hospice, home visit
Haematology
9Haematology clinic
Nephrology
4Renal clinic
Counts are from the July 2026 library release and grow as stations are added. A station tagged with two specialties is counted under both, so the column totals more than 868.
23 kinds of station, because exams do not only ask for histories.
Most candidates over-practise history taking and under-practise everything else. Counselling, candour, handover and shared decisions carry marks too — and they are where prepared candidates quietly lose them.
| Station type | Stations | What it asks of you |
|---|---|---|
| Composite stations — two or more tasks in one | 213 | History, examination and management folded into a single eight-minute encounter. |
| Combined history and examination | 202 | Take the history, ask for the examination out loud, then act on what comes back. |
| Integrated and multi-task | 95 | A second task lands mid-station: a relative arrives, a result changes the plan. |
| Counselling | 88 | No diagnosis to chase — the mark is in how you explain, check and agree. |
| Breaking bad news and difficult conversations | 53 | Warning shot, silence, and the questions that follow. Paced by the patient, not you. |
| Ethics, law and professionalism | 44 | Confidentiality, capacity, consent disputes, candour and colleagues in difficulty. |
| Paediatric | 31 | The history comes from a parent; the concern is often theirs before it is clinical. |
| Shared decision-making | 23 | Two reasonable options and a person who has to live with the choice. |
| Patient explanation and health education | 22 | Take something you understand and make it land without jargon. |
| Procedural and technical skills | 16 | Talk through the procedure, the consent and the safety checks. |
| Physical examination | 13 | A focused examination narrated aloud, with findings released as you request them. |
| Clinical management | 10 | The diagnosis is settled. The mark is in the plan and the safety-netting. |
| Safeguarding | 10 | A disclosure or a pattern you have to name, escalate and document. |
| Prescribing and medication safety | 7 | Interactions, allergies, monitoring and the conversation about why. |
| History taking | 7 | The pure form: structure, open to closed, and the cue you must not miss. |
| Telephone and remote consultation | 6 | No face to read. Everything rests on the words and the safety-net. |
| Emergency and resuscitation | 6 | A deteriorating patient, an A-to-E approach and a clear call for help. |
| Women's health and obstetric | 5 | Antenatal review, contraception and gynaecological presentations. |
| Sexual health | 5 | Sensitive histories, partner notification and non-judgemental questioning. |
| Older-person and palliative care | 4 | Frailty, collateral history, goals of care and the family in the room. |
| Psychiatry and risk assessment | 4 | Mental state, risk formulation and the questions candidates avoid asking. |
| Team communication and clinical handover | 3 | SBAR to a colleague who is busy, sceptical or about to make an error. |
| Investigation selection and data interpretation | 1 | Choose the test, read the result, and say what it changes. |
Every station trains a named skill.
Stations are not only tagged by specialty. Each one carries the skills it is built to stretch, which is how the clinical radar knows what to hand you next: if your shared decision-making is thin, it stops giving you more history stations.
Number of stations in the library that train each skill. A station usually trains more than one.
The stations candidates avoid practising.
You cannot rehearse breaking bad news by reading about breaking bad news. 465 stations in the library put a specific difficulty in the room with you — and then let you get it wrong somewhere it does not count.
Hidden agenda
148The reason they came is not the reason they gave.
Breaking bad news
121A diagnosis, a result or a death, delivered at the patient's pace.
Treatment refusal
54A competent adult saying no, and your duty to make sure they know what they are refusing.
Time pressure
44More to do than minutes to do it in — the station forces you to prioritise.
Angry or dissatisfied patient
32Hostility that has to be de-escalated before anything clinical happens.
Safeguarding concern
30Something you have to name and escalate, however uncomfortable.
Capacity uncertainty
21Assess it, document it, and act on what you find.
Language barrier
10An interpreter in the room, or a family member offering to be one.
Health anxiety
3Reassurance that has to be earned rather than asserted.
Error disclosure
2Duty of candour: what went wrong, said plainly and early.
Pitched at the level you are examined at.
Difficulty here is not obscure pathology. It comes from emotional intensity, competing tasks in one station and briefs that stay deliberately ambiguous — the things that actually go wrong on the day.
Share of the 868 stations at each level.
Same library. Your exam's circuit around it.
The stations are shared; the shape of the morning is not. Pick your exam and the station length, the number of bells and the position of every rest station change to match its published format.
How many OSCE stations does OSCEY have?
The library holds 868 stations across 27 specialties at the July 2026 release, and new stations are added regularly. A set of preview stations is free with no account; Full Access opens the rest.
What is an OSCE station?
A single timed encounter in an objective structured clinical examination. You read a brief outside the door — task, role, setting — then go in and do the clinical work while an examiner marks against a checklist. Stations usually run 8 to 11 minutes depending on the exam.
Are these real past exam stations?
No. Every OSCEY station is written for practice. Reproducing live exam material would be a breach of exam regulations, and it would teach you to recognise cases rather than to consult. The stations are built to the published formats, standards and marking domains instead.
Which specialties come up most in an OSCE?
Primary care and emergency medicine dominate, because both produce undifferentiated patients at the level these exams are set. That is reflected in the library: primary care is the largest group at 463 stations, followed by emergency medicine at 206.
Can I choose which specialty to practise?
Yes. You can pick a specialty directly, follow the clinical journey through its chapters, or let the clinical radar choose for you — it tracks coverage and performance and points at the single most useful station to attempt next.
Do the stations differ between exams?
The stations are shared; the circuit around them is not. A station runs at the length your exam uses, and mock circuits follow each exam's published shape — 16 plus 2 timed rests for PLAB 2 and UKMLA CPSA, 16 plus 4 for AMC Clinical, 14 plus 3 for NZREX, 12 slots for NAC OSCE, 12 plus 2 for PRES Level 3.
Do I have to speak out loud for every station?
Yes. There is no typed or multiple-choice mode — you consult with your voice, as you will on the day. Microphone audio is processed by Google Gemini to run the conversation and the assessment, and is not retained after the station.
How hard are the stations?
Most sit in the middle: 623 are graded medium, 141 hard and 104 easy. Difficulty comes from emotional intensity, competing tasks and ambiguity, not from obscure diagnoses.
Reading about stations is not practising them.
Pick a specialty, open a free preview station, and say the first line out loud. That is the whole difference.
Every station is written for practice; none reproduces live exam material. Your microphone audio is processed by Google Gemini to run the consultation and is not retained after the station. OSCEY provides practice feedback and practice score estimates only — not an official exam result, not a prediction, and not clinical advice. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the GMC, AMC, MCC, MCNZ, the RCSI or any other examining body.