Medical Student (MS4) ✩ PreMed Mentor on Instagram: "OSCE tips for medical students👇🏼🩺 ✨Treat standardized patients as real patients and immerse yourself in the clinical context to help reduce anxiety and improve performance ✨Practice consistently over weeks rather than cramming the night before; use structured revision, mock OSCEs, and role-play sessions with peers (my husband and dogs were regularly recruited to be my practice patients!) ✨Read station instructions carefully; know what you’r

Most students spend months perfecting their cavity preps, crown margins, access outlines, and restorations… but completely overlook the ONE skill that decides more marks than they realise: Communication. Not talking for the sake of talking but clinical communication the way examiners expect. Here’s why ignoring it costs you the exam: → OSCE makes up a huge portion of Part 2 Many students are brilliant with hand skills but freeze the moment an actor “patient” starts talking. → Your reasoning matt