First-trimester abortion care — counselling and method-selection station

Station brief

Format. Communication-and-management station, approximately 12 minutes. You are the registrar in a GP-led abortion service. A practice nurse and a GP supervisor are available. The assessor will play the patient (and, briefly, the partner) and feed you information on request. ^[1]

Candidate instruction. Conduct the consultation: confirm the request, counsel the methods, screen for coercion, support an informed choice, prescribe and brief on the chosen regimen, and arrange follow-up and contraception. Verbalise your safety-netting and your communication moves. ^[1][4]