Counselling a family about a medicine the child cannot take — OSCE

Station overview

A communication station testing whether the candidate can reframe a child's erratic disease control as a formulation-and-adherence problem, assess how the medicine is actually taken without blame, identify the barrier, and co-design a plan with the family and the pharmacist — without escalating the chronic dose (the classic error after a non-adherence-driven problem). The station is not about the pharmacology of tacrolimus per se; it is about the swallow, the taste, the regimen, and the shared plan. ^[2]