I got the following feedback from my in-course OSCE today:
Passed all 8 stations
Standardised mark: 73
Centile: 14 (I am in the top 14% of the year)
Clinical Examination: Grade A Decile 0 (I am in the top 5% of the year)
Clinical Reasoning: Grade C Decile 4 (30% of the year did better than me)
History Taking: Grade D Decile 8 (70% of the year did better than me)
Practical Skills: Grade A Decile 2 (10% of the year did better than me)
Communication Skills: Grade C Decile 9 (80% of the year did better than me).
Does this make sense? I did really well overall, yet apparently am terrible at history taking and communication skills. So I managed to be a good doctor whilst grunting and waving my arms madly at patients.
From chatting with my friends, it doesn't seem that anyone did brilliantly at history or communicating, and that most people got C's, so I'm not too far off everyone else, which makes me feel better.
But also apparently my friend failed history taking and got C's in them. So really, WTF does this feedback mean? I have been told I'm good and bad at certain things seemingly arbitrarily. SO confused.
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It is hard to believe you could be in the top 14% given the decile rankings in the 'skills' domains. It looks to me like there has been an error.
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