FRCEM OSCE

Check online resources here

These online links are supplementary to the book and compiled by our course faculty to help you prepare for the exam.

Step 1 - Applying for exam

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
- AUDIT-C
- CAGE Questionnaire
- RCEM Alcohol Screening Tools
- BHIVA PEP Guidelines
- HIV Testing in the Emergency Department – Best Practice Guideline – RCEM guideline - (revised December 2020)
- HCID – UK GOV
- Health Conditions & Driving
- Infections in pregnancy that may affect your baby - NHS
- Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
- 4AT Delirium Test
- Mental Health Toolkit (RCEM)
- 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 ED
Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders
SLO3
- Resuscitation Council UK
- Resus Guidelines 2021
- ABCDE
- Executive Summary
- ALS (Adults)
- Special Circumstances
- Post Resuscitation Care
- On anaphylaxis
  - Anaphylaxis Guidance
  - Obstetrics – St Mungo's
  - Airway Skills – St Mungo's
- Emergency Management of Tracheostomy and Laryngectomy
  - Emergency Laryngectomy Management
  - Emergency Tracheostomy Management
- Ventilator
  - Ventilation Emergencies (DOPES)
  - MECHANICAL VENTILATION Modes of Ventilation
- Revision videos from EmDocGuru youtube channel Resus Algorithms – EmDocGuru
- Toxicology: Guidelines by NPIS and RCEM on antidote availability
- STOP5 Debrief
- Ethics in Resus
- 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
- ASIA Spinal Chart
- NICE Imaging Algorithm
SLO5
- Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings
- Summary of Paediatric emergency algorithms
- Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team Drug Calculator
- RCEM guidance on Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy and Childhood
  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 – FICM
- Invasive Procedures in ED – RCEM
- A short video of nerve blocks on hands and face
- 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
- Caldicott Principles
SLO8
- Major Incidents – NHS
- 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)
SLO9
- Clinical Skills Video
SLO12

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:

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