How to practise NAC OSCE stations with NACMATE
This guide walks through a practice station on NACMATE from start to finish. NACMATE is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the Medical Council of Canada.
Choose a station
The station catalogue lists every clinical presentation, which stations are open to practise, and what each covers. Running a station costs one credit, and every new account is credited 3 free stations.
Inside the station
A station in the examination is 11 minutes long. (Source: NAC Examination, Medical Council of Canada)
A NACMATE station runs for the same length of time. You talk with a simulated patient who answers in character and only what you ask. A language model voices the patient, but only from facts written for that station, and our code discards anything those facts do not contain. A simulated examiner is present throughout and reads fixed lines: say what you would examine, and the examiner gives you the findings.
You can type your turns or speak them. Spoken turns are transcribed by our model provider, and NACMATE does not keep the recording. Replies are read aloud by your own browser.
After the station
Your report is organized by the competencies the examination assesses. A language model judges the session against the station's fixed marking criteria, says whether each one was reached, and quotes the moment in your transcript where it happened. Our code checks every quote against the transcript, and one that does not check out is marked for review rather than shown as settled. Criteria that are safety-critical are marked apart from the rest.
The report does not give a score on the examination's scale, and it does not predict a result.
What the content has been through
Station content was adapted from physician-written material for Canadian practice with the help of language models and cross-checked by three independent model passes. Anything a majority cannot confirm, or that any pass flags as unsafe, is withheld. No physician has reviewed the content.
Afterwards
Read up on what the report says you missed, then run the same presentation again and compare the two reports.
Sources
More guides are on the guides page, and the exam overview has the examination's structure on one page.