Your taskExample station · fictional patientSarah Mitchell, 47, has booked an urgent appointment about abdominal pain. Take a focused history, explain your working diagnosis, and agree a management plan.
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Every station opens with your task and the patient’s notes, so you walk in prepared.
Your taskExample station · fictional patientPast medical history
Irritable bowel syndrome (2019) Migraine without aura
Drug and allergy history
Mebeverine 135 mg three times daily as required No known drug allergies
Recent notes/consultation
Two weeks ago: intermittent lower abdominal pain, bowels variable. Examination unremarkable. Bloods requested.
Investigations
Hb 128 g/L CRP 4 mg/L Ferritin 41 µg/L
Each fictional patient is played by AI, with their own portrait and voice. They answer only from their own case, and how they feel shifts with how you consult.
Speak or type, whichever suits you. The 12‑minute clock runs as it will on the day, and the patient responds to empathy, interruptions and clear explanations.
Example consultation09:41
Sarah Mitchell, 47Voice or text · 12‑minute station
Hello Sarah, I'm the duty doctor today. What's brought you in?
It's this pain in my tummy. It started a few days ago and it hasn't really settled.
It's mostly low down, on the right side.
I'm sorry to hear that. Can you tell me what the pain feels like?
And has anything made it better or worse?
Scripted excerpt · no audio
Each of the three domains gets a grade, the reasons for it, and the turns of your transcript it rests on.
Example station · fictional patient · 23 turnsAI-estimated
Relating to others Fail
Reassurance arrived before the patient had finished describing their worry, and their question at turn 7 went unanswered.
Rests on turn 6 and turn 7
Let silence do some of the work. Name the emotion you hear before you address the concern.
- Data gatheringPass
- Clinical managementClear pass
How the patient respondedAnxious to Calmafter you showed empathy, not scored
Examiner Mode reviews a consultation you have recorded and returns a structured, AI-estimated report. You choose how long the audio is kept.
- Upload a consultation
- Record in the room, with consent
- Import from Teams, Meet or Zoom
Example report · 11:40 recordingAI-estimated
Overall Pass
- Data gatheringPass
- Clinical managementPass
- Relating to othersClear pass
“Does it affect your work?”
Try: “How has this affected your day-to-day life?”
An AI-estimated practice report, not an RCGP result.
Before you start
How do I get an account?
Accounts are by invitation for now. Choose Start a station and sign in with the account you were invited with.
Who marks my consultation?
No examiner does. Grades, their reasons and the feedback are AI-estimated and formative: not clinically validated and not examiner-validated, and they do not predict your SCA result.
Do I have to speak?
No. Every station works by text as well as by voice. The room checks your microphone before you start, and the check stays on your device.
What happens to the audio?
In a practice station it is saved only if you choose to save it before you begin. It stays private to you, you can delete it at any time, and it is not used for marking. In Examiner Mode you decide how long a recording is kept: deleted as soon as it is marked, or refused as too short or unclear (if processing fails, it is kept until you delete it, so it can be run again), kept for 7 or 30 days, or kept until you delete it.
Is SCA Guide part of the RCGP?
No. SCA Guide is independent practice and is not affiliated with the RCGP. Every patient is fictional.