Practise the NMC OSCE online, with a simulated patient
You can practise the OSCE assessment station here by having a conversation. A scenario opens, you get your reading time, and then you are in the room with a patient you question in your own words, who answers as that patient would and is vague where a real person would be vague. When the time is up you get a report that walks the criteria one at a time and quotes the part of your conversation it judged each on.
- A patient you type to in your own words, not a multiple-choice script
- Clinical data you have to go looking for, the way observations sit on a chart
- A report against the criteria, quoting your own words as evidence
- A pass or fail applied as the NMC's rule: every essential criterion met and no red flag raised
See how OSCE attempts work
Attempts run on credits, and the longer access plan includes a set of them.
Every account gets 10 new questions a day without a card.
Questions people ask
- Which station can I practise?
- The assessment station, the one built around a patient scenario. The four physical skills stations are not simulated here at all, because you cannot practise handwashing or a subcutaneous injection by typing.
- Does the patient know the mark scheme?
- No, and this is deliberate. A simulated patient that has seen the criteria steers you toward them because it is trying to be helpful, and you end up being told what to ask. The report then looks excellent and has measured nothing. The criteria are never given to the patient.
- Is the verdict a prediction of how I would be marked on the day?
- No. It is a simulated verdict, marked against our own criteria, and nobody can honestly offer you more than that. What it is good for is the thing candidates get least practice at, which is holding a structured assessment together while a real person talks back.
- How is the pass or fail decided?
- In code, not by asking the model for an opinion. Each criterion is judged on its own, then the NMC's actual rule is applied over those judgements: every essential criterion met, no red flag raised. That is why the report can tell you that you met all but one criterion and still did not pass.