You’ll be relieved to find out, that my knee is perfectly healthy, and functioning normally. I now know that beyond any doubt, having just received eight consecutive knee examinations!
Here’s the story: The second-years are preparing for their OSCE’s, which is a big deal around here! An OSCE, or Ontario Standardized Clinical Examination, is a test for clinical skills and techniques. I like to think of them of tests for actually being a doctor. The students rotate around the examination rooms, and within each room there is a patient with a particular complaint. Each station lasts only 6mins so you only have time to either take a verbal history or perform a focused physical exam.
To help the second-years out, our class posed as patients today in the context of a full-length mock OSCE. The patient role that I was assigned to play was someone with a dislocated patella (or kneecap). Although I did my best to play the role, there’s just no fooling a proper diagnostic test, and I wasn’t about to go dislocating my patella on the students’ behalf. I do love them, but not that much 
! So I now know for certain that my knee is just fine!
