The CCE explained
Why candidates fail the CCE
The same six failure patterns show up year after year, according to Dr Brian Stewart. Each one has a fellowship-standard counterpart, and every CCE Complete station is built so a borderline candidate walks into them.
The scattergun history
Questions without a hypothesis behind them, covering ground but never narrowing it.
Doctor-centred consulting
Running your own agenda and never discovering the reason the patient actually came.
Cultural safety by rote
Set phrases in place of this patient's context, community and preferences.
Premature closure
Anchoring early and leaving the cannot-miss diagnosis unexamined.
Generic management
A plan that could be handed to anyone, and so fits no one in particular.
Safety-netting that isn't
"Come back if it gets worse" in place of named symptoms, a named pathway and a named review.
How each one is fixed
In the course each pattern is shown as a borderline response next to a fellowship-standard one, then marked against the grid. The Fitness to drive example shows how.
These patterns are Dr Stewart's own observations from teaching, not published statistics.