Asking about complementary and traditional medicines — OSCE

Station overview

A communication station testing whether the candidate can take a respectful, non-judgemental complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) history from a parent, recognise the herb-drug interaction risk, counsel honestly without dismissing the family's beliefs, and build a shared safety plan. The station is not about the pharmacology of St John's wort per se; it is about the disclosure gap, the interaction risk, the shared decision and the documentation. ^[4]