Clinical skills practice for medical schools

Your faculty's judgment,
applied to every student,
every time.

Faculty write the patient case and the rubric that grades it. Students practice the interview with an AI patient as often as they need, and every attempt is scored against that rubric.

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Figure 1. A student works a full OSCE case, from the door note to feedback scored against the professor's rubric. Every patient shown is fictional. A professor drafts a fictional patient and its rubric, builds the stations, publishes the case, and reviews the class.

1How it works

From a professor's case to a graded class, in one system.

Oscelo has a faculty side and a student side, and the work flows between them.

Faculty

Students

1

Draft the case

Describe the patient you want. Oscelo drafts the history, the personality, and a rubric. You edit until it's yours.

2

Build the stations

Door note, interview, physical exam, investigations, differential, and a closing explanation to the patient.

3

Publish and assign

Published versions are frozen, so every student gets the same case.

4

Practice the interview

Students talk to the patient by typing or out loud. The patient answers in character.

5

Get feedback

After submitting, students see which rubric items they covered and which they missed.

6

Review the class

See who practiced, how they scored, and each submission in full.

  1. 1

    Faculty

    Draft the case

    Describe the patient you want. Oscelo drafts the history, the personality, and a rubric. You edit until it's yours.

  2. 2

    Faculty

    Build the stations

    Door note, interview, physical exam, investigations, differential, and a closing explanation to the patient.

  3. 3

    Faculty

    Publish and assign

    Published versions are frozen, so every student gets the same case.

  4. 4

    Students

    Practice the interview

    Students talk to the patient by typing or out loud. The patient answers in character.

  5. 5

    Students

    Get feedback

    After submitting, students see which rubric items they covered and which they missed.

  6. 6

    Faculty

    Review the class

    See who practiced, how they scored, and each submission in full.

Step 1

The assistant drafts. You decide.

Describe the patient in a few sentences and Oscelo fills in the form: the history, the medical background, the way she speaks. Anything you have edited by hand is left alone unless you ask.

Figure 2. Writing a case. The assistant fills the form as you talk, says what it changed, and leaves your own edits alone.

Step 2

A case runs like the exam.

Each case is a sequence of stations, in the order your students will meet them on the day.

Figure 3. Building an OSCE case: ten stations, from the door note to the debrief.

Steps 4 and 5

Students practice. Your rubric grades.

Students interview the patient by typing or out loud, and the patient answers in character. After they submit, each item of your rubric is marked as asked or missed.

The interview

The feedback

Figure 4. A student interviews Ellen Marsh, a fictional patient. After submitting, they see each item of the professor's rubric marked as asked or missed.

Step 6

Every submission, in one place.

See every submission for an assignment and which ones are waiting for your review. Open any of them to read the transcript and the rubric results, and add your own feedback.

Figure 5. One assignment's submissions, filtered to the ones that still need review.

2Why Oscelo

Built around your rubric, not our content.

The whole loop, in one place.

Authoring, OSCE stations, assignment, feedback, and grading are one system. Most tools give you a library of someone else's cases, or a conversation with no assessment behind it.

Your standard, applied the same way every time.

Faculty write the rubric, and the same rubric grades every attempt. That is consistency by construction. It is not a claim that software judges better than a physician.

A case in minutes, not an afternoon.

Oscelo drafts the case from a description, so writing one stops being a project. That is what lets a course build a library instead of a handful.

One student or a whole school.

The same product runs a school's clinical skills course and one student's own practice.

Practice before the exam, not a replacement for it.

Nobody argues that a flight simulator is better than flying. They argue that you shouldn't learn on the plane. Oscelo gives students the repetitions before they meet a standardized patient, so the encounters your school already runs count for more.

3Data and safety

What Oscelo holds, and what it never will.

Every patient is fictional.

Patients in Oscelo are written by faculty. The product is built so that real patient information never enters it.

Each school's data stays separate.

Students, cases, and grades live in your institution's own workspace.

Cases stay with the school that wrote them.

Faculty-authored cases and rubrics are versioned and kept in your workspace.

Questions from your security office are welcome.

A security overview is available on request.

Start with one course.

We'll set up a workspace for your course, help your faculty write their first case, and review how students used it with you at the end of the term.

Request a pilot

or write to brendanbeckstrom1@gmail.com

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