The Complete OBGYN Mock Oral Examination Checklist

Mock design specifications

Before the mock

• Confirm all personal cases are fully de-identified and contain no official records or PHI.
• Build a balanced case pool across the public Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Office Practice blueprint.
• Include at least one emergency, one operation/procedure, one complication, one counseling challenge, and one longitudinal follow-up problem per section.
• Provide examiners only the information needed to run the case and a list of intended pressure points.
• Agree that no recalled or secure ABOG content will be used.
• Set timing, interruption rules, allowed clarification, and debrief format before beginning.

Obstetrics hour checklist

• Personal case from antenatal, intrapartum, operative, or postpartum practice.
• Structured case requiring maternal stabilization and fetal assessment in parallel.
• Delivery timing and route decision with explicit threshold.
• Fetal heart-rate interpretation or antenatal testing when appropriate.
• Hemorrhage, hypertensive disease, infection, preterm birth, rupture, or operative complication branch.
• Counseling, neonatal/anesthesia/team activation, and postpartum reassessment.

Gynecology hour checklist

• Personal operative or perioperative case with complete indication and outcome.
• Structured emergency or malignancy-risk case.
• Operation description with route, anatomy, decisive steps, verification, and bailout.
• Complication branch involving hemorrhage, urinary tract, bowel, vascular, infection, VTE, or postoperative deterioration.
• Fertility, sexual function, consent, alternatives, pathology, and surveillance when relevant.
• Honest hindsight question about what the candidate would change.

Office Practice hour checklist

• Personal ambulatory case with longitudinal follow-up and result ownership.
• Structured preventive, abnormal bleeding, pelvic pain, early pregnancy, contraception, menopause, infertility, or vulvar case.
• Office procedure or decision about when not to perform one.
• Communication challenge involving uncertainty, autonomy, conflict, bad news, confidentiality, or barriers to care.
• Evidence-based screening or targeted testing decision.
• Clear follow-up interval, result communication plan, red flags, and escalation threshold.

Examiner behavior checklist

• Ask concise questions and interrupt when the candidate avoids the decision.
• Change one variable at a time and allow the candidate to explain its effect.
• Probe why—not only what.
• Ask about complications, alternatives, outcome, follow-up, and hindsight in personal cases.
• Do not teach, hint, or rescue during the scored portion.
• Record exact observable evidence rather than global impressions.

Candidate performance checklist

• States acuity and immediate priority early.
• Requests focused decision-changing data.
• Commits to a primary plan and timing.
• Addresses patient goals, consent, alternatives, and equity.
• Describes operation/procedure safely when asked.
• Recognizes and rescues deterioration without avoidable delay.
• Reassesses and closes longitudinal follow-up.
• Owns complications and uncertainty professionally.
• Answers the question asked and preserves pacing across the hour.

Debrief after all three hours—not between sections

1. 01

   Candidate self-assessment

   Name the two strongest behaviors and two highest-risk repeated defects before hearing scores.

2. 02

   Evidence review

   Examiners quote or paraphrase the exact response that supports each finding.

3. 03

   Prioritize repairs

   Select no more than three behaviors that materially improve safety, judgment, communication, or pacing.

4. 04

   Immediate repeat

   Repeat one short personal-case segment and one structured complication branch with the correction.

5. 05

   Transfer test

   Schedule a different-domain case within 48–72 hours to prove the behavior generalizes.

Readiness standard