RE: Radiography OSCE dog

Jane Hardcastle — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:56:03 GMT

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to get one to practice with in practice.

RE: Radiography OSCE dog

Heather Bacon — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:11:57 GMT

This is the dog I have seen at CAW Potters Bar and Huntingdon. I assume that most use this one too, but it will depend on the centre. http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10132788/

Most floppy toy dogs won't be anatomically correct so you will have to just imagine it I think. Some good tips I was given is when you need to collimate to last rib for the thorax xrays, or collimate to thoraco-lumbar junction for lumbar xrays....just "cut" the dog in half.

Occipital crest will usually be directly above the ear for your cervical xray.

For hips you are supposed to collimate to mid shaft femur, but they will accept the patellas as the mid shaft femur in the toy is pretty must non-existant.

Hope that helps...the examiners are apparently supposed to take into account that it is hard when there are no proper anatomical points. I was also told it is better to keep your xray window slightly on the larger side, than to collimate in too much and potentially miss landmarks you should have included.

RE: Radiography OSCE dog

Rachael_24 — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:02:37 GMT

It's been quite a while since I completed my OSCEs but we were given a typical floppy soft toy. It didn't have any joints or anything to manipulate. It's important that you can describe your collimation landmarks as this is very difficult to show on a soft toy!