A simulated patient who talks out loud, answers exactly what you ask and volunteers nothing — then a marksheet that quotes your own words back as the evidence for every mark.
One free station to start — 3 minutes, no card. You need an account only because that is where your marksheets are kept.
Ask about the pain and she describes it. Do not ask what she is frightened of, and she will not tell you — and the mark stays grey.
Here is a competitor's "History Taking" stage beside ours. Theirs prints the case as a paragraph before the candidate has said a word — findings included.
Linda Morales is a 68-year-old school principal who developed sudden palpitations… On arrival she is anxious, tachycardic, and mildly hypotensive. The irregularity of her pulse is immediately noticeable.
The candidate is told the findings. Nothing is left to elicit, nothing can be missed, and therefore nothing can be marked. A clock counts down over a paragraph somebody is reading.
“Hello.” She waits.
That is all you get. Everything else has to be asked for — and what you do not ask for, you do not learn and are not credited with. The marksheet afterwards quotes the exact words you used as the evidence for every mark it gives you, and for every one it does not.
You stand outside a door with a piece of paper, a bell goes, and you walk in. Twelve minutes by default, or whatever length your school actually gives you.
The station, what it marks, and the differential sheet an examiner holds. You are not told which one is true today.
A patient sitting in a consulting room, who speaks aloud and answers what you ask them. You can answer with your voice.
Counts down and calls out — halfway, two minutes, one minute, time. Practice mode shows the checklist; test mode hides it.
Four examiner questions before you see a single mark: present them, commit to a diagnosis, justify it, say what you would do.
Every mark with your own words as the evidence, what a strong answer would have been, and what she was privately afraid of.
Right upper quadrant pain, right iliac fossa pain, jaundice, distension, haematemesis, dysphagia and a change in bowel habit are seven different histories with seven different discriminations. A candidate who has rehearsed a generic abdominal pain has rehearsed none of them. So the unit here is the presentation, and presentations are filed under the system they belong to.
Physical examination stations are being built and are not open yet. Examining a patient properly is the half of an OSCE a simulator has to earn the right to mark, and a mark from a station that is not ready is worse than no mark. Every credit buys a history or communication station, marked in full.
You do not need a subscription to a simulator you will use in the fortnight before a circuit. Credits never expire, and there is nothing to cancel.
| What an hour of OSCE practice costs | Price | Per station |
|---|---|---|
| A mock OSCE circuit with actors | $150–300 | $30–60 |
| A commercial AI OSCE exam credit | $119 | $19.83 |
| SynkMind OSCE, full circuit | $59 | $1.69 |
One free station to start — 3 minutes, no card.
Yes. Every new account gets one, and it runs three minutes and ten questions — enough to hear it work. It is a sample rather than an allowance: granted once, ever, not once a month.
Out loud, and you can answer with your voice. They answer exactly what you ask and volunteer nothing, which is the whole point — a history you were handed cannot be marked.
Against the station's own checklist, live, while you are still in the room. In practice mode you can watch it happen; in test mode it is hidden until the end, exactly like the real thing. Every mark quotes the words you actually used as its evidence.
The clock is a setting. Twelve is the standard and the default, but a station can be set to whatever length your circuit runs — and the time is distributed across the station's phases in the proportion they were written in, so its shape survives.
No. There is no subscription, no renewal date and nothing to cancel.