Examination Pressure

I recently had my cardio prac at ICU in Charles gardiner hospital. Whilst there i found that i particularly enjoyed the prac and felt comfortable and confident with my knowledge and skills. All the feedback I recieved from my supervisor throughout the placement was positive and i felt confident that i would breeze through the prac without any drama's. Unfortunately i managed to let myself down by struggling under the scrutiny of my supervisor whilst seeing my examination patient. In previous pracs i have found that i have had some nerves when it came to the examination patient however not to the same extent as this one. Although my performance with my examination patient was not the best I still did enough to pass the prac relatively easily and my supervisor informed me that had it not been for my final examination i would have recieved almost perfect feedback. THis situation alerted me to the fact that i do not perform well or think as clearly when being scrutinized by others. Whilst it may seem that this is unimportant as once we graduate we won't be examined, I think it is something that i need to overcome as i am sure there will be situations in the working environment where senior physios will observe and scrutinize our work. If this is going to be the case i would not want to succumb to the pressure and fumble around when i know that in normal circumstances i can do the job perfectly.