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Objectives: CPR training is a recommended part of the UK National Curriculum. 11-13 year olds have the cognitive and physical ability to perform CPR, are not committed to GCSE course work and represent a wide cross-section of the community. However, a standard 2-hour CPR course can be difficult to organise due to pressure on class time, large class size, and cost/time of CPR instructors and manikins...
Objectives: To assess practical skills in BLS as part of the Final MB BS examination.Methods: 199 students sitting a Final MB BS examination undertook an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to assess practical clinical skills. The BLS station required students to assess a collapsed patient (Laerdal SkillMeter) and commence one-person BLS. Performance was assessed over two cycles of BLS...