How to Crack EDIC 2 Master Preparation Booklet

How to Crack EDIC 2

Master Preparation Booklet — ESICM European Diploma in Intensive Care, Part 2 · OSCE Edition 2026

Most candidates reach EDIC Part 2 knowing the medicine. They stumble on the OSCE itself — the evolving cases, the fast pattern-recognition stations, the communication scripts examiners actually score. Knowledge isn’t the gap; exam performance is. This booklet closes it by drilling the exact format you’ll face on the day.

What’s inside

• Three full-length Clinical Case Scenarios (CCS) — Medical, Surgical, and Neurocritical ICU cases, each an evolving patient chart with sequential vignettes, examiner-style questions, and detailed rationale
• Three Computer-Based Scenario (CBS) stations — ECGs, ventilator and haemodynamic waveforms, radiology (CXR, CT, AXR, ultrasound), and ABG/biochemistry/haematology/drug interpretation
• 30 pattern-recognition cases in total, built for realistic exam simulation rather than isolated MCQs
• Every answer referenced to PACT Module 2026, the CoBaTrICE framework, and ESICM guidelines, with the landmark-trial citations candidates are expected to know
• High-yield appendix — CCS communication frameworks, CBS systematic-approach checklists, and waveform/trial quick-reference tables for final-week revision
• Original practice cases only — no confidential EDIC content reproduced.

By Dr. Gunadhar Padhi — Chief Intensivist, MD, IDCCM, FCCCM, ECMO (Paris); author of the EDIC preparation series.