1. Reeling off your over-rehearsed intro speech.
2. Asking for, and subsequently forgetting, the patient's name.
3. Asking for a chaperone for any examination to save yourself from an instant fail. Especially if you're a man.
4. Trying to stick to a structure when your patient keeps messing it up.
5. Washing your hands very obviously to score the mark.
6. Fumbling about when trying to put on gloves.
7. Examining a model and trying to pretend its the patient, who is chilling on the other side of the room.
8. Every awkward second of having to use your stethoscope.
9. Trying to maintain composure when doing breast, vaginal, or rectal examinations.
10. Pretending to take a pulse and then stating any reasonable number that is divisible by 4.
11. Internally freaking out if your patient's blood pressure isn't 120/80.
12. Using SOCRATES when the patient has pain.
13. When the patient has no signs.
14. But also when the patient has signs.
15. Waiting for a patient shut up when they keep rambling on.
16. Trying to avoid medical jargon and explaining things in simple terms to the patients.
17. Using false empathetic lines to look like you care.
18. Never getting to finish your history.
19. Or finishing your history too early and realising you've missed something big.
20. Not looking back at the patient when you're presenting to the examiner.
21. That moment when you realise you have no idea what is meant to be wrong with the patient.
22. And most importantly, ICEing the crap out of them.
