17:30
Cambridge University
November 10
Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio
Since the 1970s, many branches of medicine have embedded forms of objective structured clinical examination (OSCEs) within their training and assessment practices. By using trained actors instead of real-life patients, OSCEs aspire to a degree of standardisation and replicability in the scenarios presented to trainee clinicians. But how does this format shape the clinical encounter as a dramatic event? In this demonstration and discussion, Phill Doulton— founder of Professional Roleplayers — will share, along with his colleague-performers, some of the scenarios employed in the foremost psychiatric OSCE, the Clinical Assessment of Skills and Capabilities (CASC). This will be followed by a discussion with the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, one of the original architects of the assessment. Together they will reflect on CASC’s strengths, limitations and ramifications when considered both as a form of education and as a form of drama, before opening the floor to questions.