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Lily Chen, 6 (mother present)
High fever and lethargy · paediatric clinic
Hi, doctor. I'm Lily's mother. She's had a fever for three days and is very lethargic.
I'm sorry to hear that. Could you tell me how the fever started — has it been steady or coming in spikes?
It's been coming and going. Last night it got up to about 39 — she was burning up. She's also been tugging at her right ear since yesterday.
Has Lily had any shaking episodes during the fevers, or been unusually drowsy between them?
She had two or three shaky episodes when the fever was highest. They only lasted a minute or so, and she stayed awake. She's just been wanting to sleep more than usual otherwise.
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Live · station 01
A patient who stays in character.
Open a station and you're in role from the first sentence. Volunteered cues, withheld details until you ask, and the marksheet running alongside.
marksheet · live
Fever onset, duration, pattern ✓
Associated ear tugging ✓
Neurological — shaking episodes ✓
Vomiting, diarrhoea, rash ·
Appetite & hydration ·
Immunisation status ·
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Speak or type
Voice-to-text with the patient. Falls back to typed input on devices without a mic.
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Consultant-reviewed scripts
Each case ships with a structured stem, history, exam, and investigations — read by a clinician before you ever meet it.
Plate 02 · marksheet
A score that shows its working.
Item-level rubrics matched to your school. Open any row to see what you said, what was expected, and a model phrasing. The same station, over weeks, graphed.
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Per-row scoring
Not a single number to argue with. Every line is marked, with what full marks would look like.
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Weak items resurface
Items you lost marks on this week become MCQs and flashcards next week. Quietly.
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Longitudinal
Attempt 3, 4, 5 of the same station — your trajectory next to your peers'.
Lily Chen · paediatric history
Station 01 · attempt 02
History of presenting complaint
5/5
✓Inquires about fever onset, duration and pattern+1
✓Asks about associated symptoms (ear tugging, rhinorrhoea)+1
✓Assesses for neurological symptoms (shaking episodes, lethargy)+1
✓Inquires about appetite changes and sleep patterns+1
✓Confirms absence of vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, respiratory distress+1
Past medical history & risk factors
3/4
✓Elicits history of previous ear infections+1
✓Confirms immunisation status, including PCV13 and Hib+1
·Inquires about birth history and developmental milestones0
✓Asks about family history of similar illnesses or infections+1
Physical examination
5/5
✓Performs otoscopic examination of both ears+1
✓Measures vital signs including temperature, HR, RR+1
✓Assesses neurological status (LoC, meningeal signs)+1
✓Examines throat and neck for lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis+1
✓Checks for skin rashes or dehydration signs+1
Differential diagnoses
3/4
✓Considers otitis media as a primary diagnosis+1
✓Includes upper respiratory infection in differentials+1
·Rules out serious conditions like meningitis or sepsis0
✓Considers febrile seizures given shaking episodes+1
overall
28 / 36 (78%)
Examiner · viva 01
A trauma patient presents with hypotension and abdominal findings. List the initial investigations you would order, and explain why.
Critical
Emergent trauma laparotomy for hemoperitoneum — direct control of bleeding, life-saving in unstable patients.
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Not to miss
Pelvic angiography for possible arterial bleeding — significant occult haemorrhage source.
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Most likely
CT abdomen / pelvis with contrast (if stable) — detects organ lacerations, retroperitoneal injury.
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Common
Serial haemoglobin measurements — monitor ongoing loss, guide transfusion.
+1
Common
Arterial blood gas for acidosis and lactate — markers of hypoperfusion, guide resuscitation.
+1
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Plate 03 · viva voce
Examiner-style follow-ups, not a recorded prompt.
Answer one investigation, the viva probes the reasoning. Each answer is tagged — critical, not-to-miss, most likely, common — and weighted accordingly.
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Tagged answers
Each correct response carries a category and a weight, so partial credit is honest.
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Voice or typed
Speak naturally. Transcript captured for review and marking.
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Walk-through afterwards
See exactly which response earned which mark, with model phrasing alongside.
Plate 04 · MCQ + explanation
Every question, reviewed by a clinician.
The reasoning is there whether you got it right or wrong — and the topic links back to your marksheets so weak areas surface in tomorrow's set.
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Explanations every time
Why the right answer is right — and why each distractor was tempting.
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Filtered to your week
By topic, station, or year. Skip what you've already mastered.
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Tagged to marksheets
A weak MCQ topic shows up in your station feedback. The system joins the dots.
Haematology · suspected myeloma
Geoffrey Williams, a 68-year-old male, presents with a three-month history of worsening fatigue, lower back pain, and two episodes of pneumonia in six weeks. The back pain is deep, constant, 6/10, not relieved by paracetamol.
Bloods: Hb 94 g/L (normocytic), calcium 2.95 mmol/L, creatinine 145 µmol/L (eGFR 42), ESR 98 mm/hr, total protein 102 g/L. Serum protein electrophoresis reveals a monoclonal IgG band.
Which of the following is the most appropriate next step in management?
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Arrange urgent haematology referral with serum free light chains and urine Bence Jones protein
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Start intravenous zoledronic acid 4 mg for hypercalcaemia management
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Arrange whole-body low-dose CT and review results in 4 weeks
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Commence oral dexamethasone 40 mg daily for 4 days as bridging therapy
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Prescribe alendronate 70 mg weekly and calcium supplementation
Correct — option A. Anaemia, hypercalcaemia, renal impairment, bone pain, recurrent infection and a monoclonal IgG band fit the CRAB criteria for multiple myeloma. The next step is urgent haematology referral with serum free light chains and urine Bence Jones — characterising the paraprotein and staging the disease are specialist tasks. IV bisphosphonates, dexamethasone, and a four-week CT delay each defer the necessary specialist involvement.
Cardiology Essentials · card 12 of 24
ACS triage: STEMI vs NSTEMI. A 58-year-old male presents to your ED at 10:15 am with 90 minutes of crushing central chest pain radiating to the left jaw. His 12-lead ECG shows ≥2 mm ST elevation in V1–V4. Troponin I is pending. What is your immediate management priority, and what is the time target you are working to?
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Answer
Immediate PCI (primary percutaneous coronary intervention) — door-to-balloon time target ≤90 minutes. Do not wait for troponin — the ECG alone diagnoses STEMI and commits you to the reperfusion pathway. • Activate the cath lab; load aspirin 300 mg + ticagrelor 180 mg in the ED • If PCI unavailable within 120 min of first contact, give thrombolysis (tenecteplase) and transfer • Inferior STEMI (II, III, aVF): right-sided leads mandatory — RV infarct complicates 40% and contraindicates nitrates / diuretics
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Plate 05 · flashcards
Spaced repetition, seeded from your week.
Cards you nearly miss reappear sooner. Cards you nail step back. None of it is shouted about — it's just where the next 15 minutes of revision happens to start.
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Default-on spacing
No deck construction needed. Built from the items you lost marks on this week.
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Real clinical reasoning
Cards include figures, decision rules, and time targets — not single-word recall.
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Add your own
Anything you read in clinic — paste it, tag it, it joins the same review cadence.
Plate 06 · exam mode
Sit a full paper. Flag, skip, submit.
Exam-length, exam-timing, exam-pacing. No drip-fed feedback until the bell. The grid shows what's left, the timer respects the format, and the debrief afterwards links each miss back to a station, a card, or a viva.
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One paper, one debrief
No interruptions during. After: one scrollable page that links every miss to what closes the gap.
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Flag & return
The grid tells you what's answered, flagged, and untouched — at a glance.
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Real questions, real timing
Every paper is built from the same MCQ pool you drill from — pacing included.
Paper 1 · Q05 / 30
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Q05 — A 68-year-old man with normocytic anaemia, hypercalcaemia, renal impairment and a monoclonal IgG band on serum protein electrophoresis. Which is the most appropriate next step?
AUrgent haematology referral with serum free light chains and urine Bence Jones
BIV zoledronic acid 4 mg for hypercalcaemia
CWhole-body low-dose CT, review in 4 weeks
DOral dexamethasone 40 mg daily for 4 days
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About OSCELab
OSCE practice for medical students.
OSCELab is OSCE practice for medical students. Take a full history from a voice-driven simulated patient, perform examinations, get marked against a real OSCE rubric, then drill MCQs, vivas and flashcards seeded from your weak spots. Used by students preparing for medical-school OSCEs, AMC clinicals and PLAB.
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Doctor-reviewed contentSix tools, one continuous loop.
What you struggled with in a station seeds tomorrow's MCQs and flashcards. Strong material steps back. Quietly.
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Marksheets
Item-level rubric scoring with model answers and longitudinal tracking.
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Viva voce
Examiner-style structured orals with categorised answers and follow-up probing.
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MCQs & explanations
Filtered by topic, station, year. Tagged back to your marksheets.
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Flashcards
Spaced-repetition decks seeded from your weakest content this week.
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Exam mode
Timed papers, the flagging grid, a debrief that closes the loop.
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Built by Australian doctors.
Auri was built by a group of Australian doctors who have a passion for making medical education and exam study as efficient as possible.
The team
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Raymond
GP, Adelaide, SA
FRACGP, M.D. (Griffith University)
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George
Ophthalmology Registrar, Sydney, NSW
M.D. (University of Melbourne)
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Marie
ENT Registrar, Adelaide, SA
M.D. (Griffith University)
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Tasneem
GP, Adelaide, SA
FRACGP, M.D. (Griffith University)