Foundations of Medical Practice for medical colleges

The person, the conversation and the first steps of care.

First-year medical students meet patients in realistic charts: they see how stress, beliefs and behaviour shape illness, run a consultation, act in a Basic Life Support emergency and apply the anatomy of the limbs and spine.

  • 17 case-based activities in nine units, with answer keys
  • 134 items, from multiple choice to open responses
  • 12 individual and 5 group practicals
  • Runs in the browser, nothing to install
MindMotionLab EHR · Handoff report
The MindMotionLab training EHR: the patient storyboard beside the handoff report
17Case-based activities
134Items with rationales
9Units of the course
17Patients, 8 to 82 years
The platform

Everything for a Foundations of Medical Practice course

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A training EHR for every case

Storyboard, notes, assessment, vitals, results, MAR and orders

Handoff reports you can hear

Read or listen to the team going off duty

Consultations and role-play

The seven steps, two tracks and group role-play

Basic Life Support cases

Choking, collapse and CPR, step by step

Faculty grade what matters

Objective items scored, open responses graded with model answers

Course reference built in

Anatomy, behavioural science, BLS, conduct

Activity
Items beside the patient chart
Built around the patient

From the person to the plan

Each case connects the course to a patient: students read the chart, understand the person behind the problem and decide what to say and do.

  1. Read the history and the handoff
  2. See the person behind the problem
  3. Find the cues that matter
  4. Explain with the right model
  5. Choose what to do first
  6. Talk it through with the patient
Curriculum

17 cases in the nine units of the course

Each case has a patient chart, items with rationales, a student Word activity and a faculty answer key.

See all 17 cases →
Unit 1

Body and Mind

2 cases
  • Exam stress and the HPA axis
  • Normal development or a problem?
Unit 2

Communication in the Medical Setting

2 cases
  • The seven steps of the consultation
  • Role-play in threes (group)
Unit 3

Changing Health Behavior

1 case
  • Quitting smoking after a heart attack (group)
Unit 4

Life Style Change

1 case
  • Prediabetes, weight and a busy life
Unit 5

Illness Perception

1 case
  • Why he stopped his blood pressure pills
Unit 6

Adapting to Illness

1 case
  • A student adjusts to type 1 diabetes (group)
Unit 7

Psychological Care

1 case
  • Anxiety before an operation
Unit 8

How Do I Become a Good Doctor

3 cases
  • Professional conduct and teamwork (group)
  • Choking and adult Basic Life Support
Unit 9

Anatomy of Upper & Lower Limbs

5 cases
  • Shoulder dislocation and ankle sprain
  • Hip fracture (group), neck and back pain
Inside MindMotionLab

See what students and faculty work with

Activity
Items in the chart's Activity tab

Answer the items beside the chart.

Vital signs
A vital sign flowsheet with abnormal values flagged

Read the record like a clinician.

Grading
Faculty grading a student's answers beside the key and model answer

Grade with the key and model answers in view.

For colleges

One workspace for your first-year course

For colleges →
Students working together at laptops

College admin

  • Manage faculty accounts
  • Add your logo and colours
  • Follow every assignment

Faculty

  • Assign cases to a class or a team
  • Grade open responses with model answers
  • Download Excel grading sheets

Student

  • Review a full patient chart
  • Practise consultations and BLS steps
  • Learn from rationales and the course reference
How it works

From assignment to grade in four steps

  1. Faculty assign

    Pick cases, choose a class or team, set a due date

  2. Students review the chart

    Each case opens its patient chart and handoff report

  3. Answer and upload

    Answer the items in the chart and upload the Word activity

  4. Faculty grade

    Objective items are scored; faculty grade the rest and give feedback

Security & privacy

Safe by design

Fictional patients only; students never see keys, rationales or model answers before their work is graded.

How we protect your program →
  • No real patient data
  • Role-based access
  • Colleges kept separate
  • Keys, rationales and model answers stay private until graded
  • Same secure account as ChartLab
  • Nothing to install

Give your first-year students real patients to learn from

Case-based practice for Foundations of Medical Practice.