Good afternoon everyone,

 

This is a reminder that you have a 1-station FOSCE scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025.  Please ensure that you have checked the schedule (posted on Entrada and attached) for your time to show up outside the basement CLSF.

 

You are required to wear a clean white coat (short) with your student name tag. Bring with you a watch (not digital or smartwatch) and pen/pencil. No other equipment is needed. You will also be given a clipboard and scrap paper.

 

There is no room in the CLSF for coats or bags. Leave everything in your locker. Anything you do bring will have to be left in a bin at the front of the CLSF. You will get your belongings back after your exam session.

 

No food of drink is allowed in the CLSF.

 

Note that you will be in an enclosed space with other people – please refrain from wearing a lot of scent as some people are allergic. This includes perfume, cologne, body spray, etc.

 

DO NOT BE LATE! Late arrivals will not be accommodated.

 

CLSF procedure:

 

  1. We will give you your username on your scrap paper – there is no password
  2. Scenarios will still be on the doors – both inside and outside.
  3. For all stations, you will read the scenario on the door, then log in, then enter the room.
    1. All will be told to you in overhead prompts
    2. Up to 1 minute to log in
    3. 2 minutes to read
    4. Everyone will enter the rooms at the same time
    5. 8 minutes in the room
    6. 2-minute warning
    7. 3 minutes for verbal feedback. Some rooms will have no examiner. The SP will give you verbal feedback from their point of view. We have a faculty member who will review the videos and add their feedback which will be included in the written feedback we send out after the exam.
    8. Prompt to exit room and leave the CLSF
  4. There will be instructions next to the laptops as well for logging in:
  5. There will also be a countdown clock in each room

 

Step 1: Click on blue button “Login”

Step 2: Type in your UM username

Step 3: Click OK

 

Track staff will monitor the computers and assist where needed.

 

Make sure you complete the Shared Health screening tool before you come to campus (https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/screening-tool/). Let us know ASAP if you have answered yes to any of the questions and cannot come to the exam. It is assumed that if you enter campus you have answered no to all the screening questions.

 

We will have masks available at the door if anyone wants one, but masks are no longer mandatory.

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1. Setup: You, the, SP and the examiner will be in the room.  Please remember to speak loud enough for the examiner to hear.  This is also important for the microphones that are used in the room. 

 

2. Physical examination: SPs have the option to wear masks and if they do, to remove them for examination

a) Should you need to perform a component of your physical exam that looks at the mouth/throat and the SP does not wish to remove their mask, please inform the examiner what you would have the SP do, and what you are looking for.

                b) Everything else should be demonstrated (with the exception of intimate exams).

General Comments:

1. Please read the prompt carefully. 

2. Try to keep to a systematic approach to your history and physical exams.

 

You guys have been practicing a lot, so keep it up!

 

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

 

Good luck! 

 

 

Katherine Clark

Pre-Clerkship Evaluations Program Administrator, UGME

Max Rady College of Medicine | Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

260 Brodie Centre – 727 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P5

P: (204) 789-3560

E: PreClerkEvaluations@umanitoba.ca

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