Publications by authors named "Alice Oatham"

Background The COVID-19 pandemic brought about drastic changes to medical education and examinations, with a shift to online lectures and webinars. Additionally, social restrictions in the United Kingdom (UK) inhibited students' ability to practice for objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) with their peers. Methods The Virtual OSCE buddy scheme (VOBS) provided a means to practice OSCE skills virtually by linking groups of 2-6 final-year medical students with a junior doctor who had recently passed their exams.

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Choriocarcinoma is a disease associated with uncontrollable proliferation and malignant change of cells of the placenta and belongs to the malignant end of the spectrum in gestational trophoblastic disease. These tumours are usually developed after molar pregnancies, and their incidence after full-term pregnancies is extremely rare. We present a very rare case of a 30-year-old lady, admitted with a five-month history of vaginal bleeding after a normal pregnancy.

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