- Enter your unit and what the station assesses. Both are required. Name the skill and the clinical situation, such as “assessing and escalating a post-operative patient who is deteriorating”. For a circuit, describe everything the circuit should cover and the stations are spread across it.
- Choose the profession, level and station type. Pick the profession and level of your students. Choose a station type, such as history taking, physical examination, a procedure, communication, handover or a deteriorating patient, or let the designer choose.
- Choose the patient. A simulated patient (an actor), a manikin or simulator, a part-task trainer such as an IV arm, or no patient for examiner-led or data interpretation stations. You can also let the designer choose what suits each station.
- Set the number of stations and the timing. Choose one station or a circuit of two to six, the time in the station and the reading time outside the door. The line under the form shows how long each round takes.
- Choose how it’s marked. Checklist and global rating is the default and suits most OSCEs. Checklist only gives a tick-sheet of observable actions. Rating scales only scores domains such as communication and clinical reasoning against descriptors. Untick examiner questions if you don’t want questions in the final minutes.
- Add your guidelines (optional). Under more options, paste your local policy, a skills checklist or your teaching notes, so the station and its marking follow what you teach. You can also add learning outcomes, notes about your students and anything else the station should follow, such as “use ISBAR for handover”.
- Design the station. Choose “Design OSCE station”. It’s planned first, then each station is written in two parts while you watch. You’re charged once, only when everything is finished. If something goes wrong partway, you aren’t charged, and “Finish writing” picks up where it stopped.
- Check every view. Overview lists the stations and, for a circuit, a rotation plan. Candidate is the sheet for the door. Examiner is the marking sheet. Patient script is for your simulated patient or simulator operator. Setup and props lists the equipment, the results cards to print and the debrief notes.
- Rewrite or edit. Under each part you can rewrite the marking, the patient script, or the setup and props, with an optional note such as “make the patient more anxious”. Rewriting a whole station gives you a new scenario, and its script and props are rewritten to match at no extra charge. The price is on each button. “Edit” lets you change anything by hand, for free.
- Run it and download it. Run timer counts down the reading time, the station time with a one-minute warning, and the change over, for as many rounds as you need, with an optional bell. Word: full pack gives you everything in one document, or download just the candidate instructions, the marking sheets or the patient scripts. Print / PDF opens print-ready pages, and Marks spreadsheet (CSV) gives you every checklist item ready for recording marks.
- Build on it. From a finished station you can build a feedback comment bank for your OSCE feedback, generate 10 MCQs on the knowledge behind the station, or make a preparation worksheet for students, each priced on its own button. None of them gives away the marking checklist. Every station is saved to “My Stations” and to “Everything You’ve Generated” on your User Hub.
Every action’s credit cost is shown on its own button before you commit to it. Nothing is charged silently.