NAC OSCE Help
Free resources first, paid tools second — built by Canadian physicians for IMGs sitting the NAC. Start with the station checklist: it is what we sent to 1,800 candidates this week.
Get the station checklistEvery NAC station is scored against a checklist and a global rating. The marks are in the structure, not in how much medicine you know. Here is where the minutes go and what examiners tick at each stage.
One page: the clock above with every mnemonic in place, the red flags by system, the scripts for the opening and the close. Print it, tape it above your desk, practise against it.
The schematic opens right here (print it or save it as a PDF). Before each NAC sitting, one email from Dr. Akil. Unsubscribe any time.Figures from the Medical Council of Canada; updated the day they change.
67 history-taking stations and 55 combined history-and-physical stations across 16 systems, each on the clock with its rubric at the end. Run them solo or with any partner — a friend outside medicine can read the script. Stations are in English; French versions are in progress. CAD $119 for 90 days, $219 for 180.
Practising alone tells you what you said. A physician tells you what the examiner heard.
Where you are, what to do next, and whether a paid session would change anything. Many people leave with a plan and never book one.
Book the free callOne timed 11-minute station run live with a physician, scored against the OSCE-R rubric, then a 30-minute debrief and a written station report within 24 hours. English or French.
Each station is 11 minutes including the reading time at the door. Examiners score a checklist of history and exam items plus global ratings that include communication and organisation. That is why structure matters as much as content: an unspoken exam is an unscored exam, and a station that runs out of time loses the closing marks.
In 2025, 2,416 candidates sat the NAC Examination; 82.6% of the 2,413 who received a final result passed (MCC NAC Examination Annual Technical Report 2025). Timing and communication are scored at every station, so practise them as deliberately as the medicine.
Four to six weeks before the exam: one system a day at first, then mixed sets in the last ten days so that the opening, the mid-way summary and the close become automatic. In the final week, stop learning new content and run two or three timed stations a day.
Not yet. The stations themselves — the candidate briefing, the patient script and the examiner answers — are in English; station titles appear in both languages. The MCCQE1 question bank and the Public Health, Ethics & Epidemiology module are fully bilingual, and French OSCE-R stations are being written now.
Yes. A free 15-minute call is available to anyone, and the mock NAC station with debrief (CAD $199) gives you one timed station with a physician, scored on the rubric, with a written report within 24 hours.
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