Student activity
The case, a patient snapshot and every item with space for reasoning and reflection, in Word.
Curriculum
17 cases for the nine units of Foundations of Medical Practice
A complete, ready-to-teach first-year course. Each case gives students a patient who feels real and the behavioural science, communication, emergency care or anatomy behind the problem, with the documents and answer keys faculty need to teach and assess it.
17Cases
9Units
134Items
17Patient charts
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What’s in a case
Everything you need to teach it, in one package
No preparation from scratch. Assign a case and students can start in minutes.
Faculty answer key
The keys, rationales and model answers for every item, visible to staff only.
A full patient chart
The training EHR the case is built on, starting with the handoff report.
Ready to grade
Objective items are scored against the key; faculty grade open responses with the model answer.
The full case list
Nine units, 12 individual and 5 group practicals
The units follow the course: body and mind, communication, health behaviour and lifestyle change, illness perception and adapting to illness, psychological care, becoming a good doctor, and the anatomy of the limbs and spine. Each case names its level, its number of items and its patient.
Body and Mind
The biopsychosocial model and the HPA axis under exam stress, and telling normal development from a problem that needs help.
Exam Season: Stress, the HPA Axis and the Biopsychosocial Model
A 19-year-old first-year medical student has three months of headaches, poor sleep, stomach pain and low appetite, with normal investigations. Describe the field of health psychology, compare the biomedical and biopsychosocial models, identify the psychosocial constructs at work, and explain how chronic HPA axis activation links stress to her symptoms and mood.
Apply/Analyze8 itemsSara Al-Ghamdi, 19 yOutpatientPsychosocialYoung adult
Is This Normal? Development, Behaviour and When to Worry
A mother brings her 8-year-old son, who has had stomach aches and refused school since his parents separated, and asks about her other children too. Decide which behaviours are developmentally normal and which are psychological problems that need assessment.
Apply/Analyze6 itemsRayan Al-Zahrani, 8 yOutpatientPediatricsChild
Communication in the Medical Setting
The seven steps and two tracks of the consultation, then a role-play in threes with an adolescent, a parent and an inhaler.
The Real Worry: The Seven Steps and Two Tracks of the Consultation
A 35-year-old teacher with recurring headaches has seen two doctors already and is still worried. Plan and conduct the consultation with the seven steps, integrate the disease and illness tracks to uncover her hidden concern, and apply communication theory to what goes wrong and right.
Apply/Analyze8 itemsMona Al-Saeed, 35 yOutpatientNeurologicalMid-adult
Role-Play in Threes: An Adolescent, a Parent and an Inhaler
Group practical. In groups of three (doctor, patient, observer), run a consultation with a 16-year-old with poorly controlled asthma who has come with her mother. Use the seven steps, both tracks and the transactional model, and give each other structured feedback.
Group practical7 itemsDana Al-Harthi, 16 yOutpatientRespiratoryAdolescent
Changing Health Behavior
Health behaviour models in a team plan to help a man quit smoking after a heart attack.
Group Plan: Quitting Smoking After a Heart Attack
Group practical. A 47-year-old man who has smoked for 30 years has just had a heart attack. As a team, use health psychology models (biopsychosocial, health beliefs, stages of change, self-efficacy, social support) to understand why he smokes and to build a quit plan together.
Group practical6 itemsHamad Al-Mutlaq, 47 yInpatientCardiovascularMid-adult
Life Style Change
Small, realistic steps for prediabetes, weight and a busy, stressful life.
Small Steps: Prediabetes, Weight and a Busy Life
Individual practical. A 38-year-old bank officer has prediabetes, obesity and a sedentary, stressful routine. Identify his lifestyle risks, apply the evidence on diet, activity and sleep, use the 5 As and motivational interviewing, and agree SMART goals he can keep.
Apply/Analyze7 itemsFaisal Al-Rashid, 38 yOutpatientEndocrineMid-adult
Illness Perception
Why a patient who feels fine stops his blood pressure pills, and how to talk about it.
Feeling Fine: Why He Stopped His Blood Pressure Pills
Individual practical. A 58-year-old man stopped his antihypertensive because he feels well and believes his blood pressure is only high when he is stressed. Use the common-sense model of illness (Leventhal) and the necessity-concerns framework to understand his beliefs and respond.
Apply/Analyze6 itemsKhaled Al-Juhani, 58 yOutpatientCardiovascularOlder adult
Adapting to Illness
Coping and adaptive tasks as a student adjusts to type 1 diabetes.
A New Normal: A Student Adjusts to Type 1 Diabetes
Group practical. Three months after diagnosis with type 1 diabetes, a 19-year-old is angry, hides her injections and skips doses at university. As a team, analyse her adjustment with crisis theory and coping models and build a plan to support adaptation.
Group practical6 itemsLeen Al-Mutairi, 19 yOutpatientEndocrineYoung adult
Psychological Care in the Medical Setting
Screening for anxiety, giving information and supporting recovery before an operation.
Before the Operation: Anxiety, Information and Recovery
Individual practical. A 63-year-old woman is very anxious the evening before a knee replacement after a frightening experience with a previous operation. Screen for anxiety and depression, choose the right psychological preparation, and decide when to involve liaison psychiatry.
Apply/Analyze7 itemsSamira Haddad, 63 yInpatientMusculoskeletalOlder adult
How Do I Become a Good Doctor
Professional conduct and teamwork on the ward, and adult Basic Life Support: choking, collapse, CPR and the AED.
Group Four: Professional Conduct and Teamwork on the Ward
A group of four medical students is assigned to take a history from a patient with pneumonia. One dominates, one has not shown up, one posts on social media, and a nurse corrects the group. Show appropriate behaviour with colleagues, collaborate in the group and keep safe, professional relationships with fellows and staff.
Group practical7 itemsAli Hamdan, 53 yInpatientProfessionalismTeamwork
Lunch on Ward 4: Basic Life Support, Choking and the Collapse
A 71-year-old recovering from a minor stroke chokes on food his family brought in, then becomes unresponsive. Explain the importance and goals of BLS, check responsiveness, breathing and central pulse, and sequence back blows, abdominal thrusts and CPR.
Evaluate/Create9 itemsIbrahim Al-Saleh, 71 yInpatientEmergencyOlder adult
Collapse in the Car Park: Adult BLS from Check to Shock
Individual practical. A 56-year-old man collapses in the hospital car park. Assess responsiveness, breathing and central pulse, start high-quality CPR, use the AED, and explain why each link of the chain of survival matters. Complete the BLS checklist on the manikin, then the items on your own.
Evaluate/Create7 itemsNasser Al-Shehri, 56 yEmergencyCardiovascularMid-adult
Anatomy of Upper & Lower Limbs
Planes, joints and prime movers, the girdles and the vertebral column, through sports injuries, a hip fracture and back pain.
Off the Rim: Shoulder Dislocation, Joints, Planes and Prime Movers
A 20-year-old university basketball player dislocated his right shoulder landing from a rebound. At his sports clinic review, classify the bones and joints involved, describe each movement by plane, axis and prime movers, compare the pectoral and pelvic girdles, and check for nerve injury.
Apply/Analyze10 itemsBader Al-Mutairi, 20 yOutpatientMusculoskeletalYoung adult
Rolled Over: Ankle Sprain and the Lower Limb in Motion
A 21-year-old student rolled her ankle playing basketball. Examine the lower limb as you would in the joints practical: classify the bones and joints, name each movement by plane and axis, identify the prime movers, and palpate the landmarks that decide whether she needs an X-ray.
Apply/Analyze7 itemsNoura Al-Shammari, 21 yOutpatientMusculoskeletalYoung adult
Group Station Round: A Hip Fracture and the Pelvic Girdle
Group practical. An 82-year-old woman has fractured the neck of her femur. Your group runs a four-station anatomy round on her case: the pelvic girdle and hip joint, the muscles that deform the leg, the comparison with the pectoral girdle, and the clinical importance, then submits one shared answer set.
Group practical7 itemsFatimah Al-Otaibi, 82 yInpatientMusculoskeletalOlder adult
Rear-Ended: Neck Pain, the Cervical Spine and When to Immobilize
A 28-year-old driver was hit from behind and has neck pain. Identify the features of cervical vertebrae, recognize the cervical curvature, and decide which findings point to a fracture or dislocation that endangers the spinal cord and breathing.
Evaluate/Create7 itemsMajed Al-Dosari, 28 yEmergencyMusculoskeletalYoung adult
Lifting the Load: Back Pain, Stress and a Lunchtime Emergency
A 42-year-old warehouse supervisor is admitted with a left L5-S1 disc herniation, under heavy stress about his job and family. Apply the anatomy of the vertebral column, joints and muscles to his examination, analyse his case with the biopsychosocial model, plan the consultation, manage a choking emergency at lunch, and respond to a colleague's unprofessional behaviour.
Apply/Analyze19 itemsKhalid Al-Harbi, 42 yInpatientMusculoskeletalMid-adult
The final unit
Anatomy in motion, from the shoulder to the spine
The course ends with the limbs and the spine: sports injuries, a group station round on a hip fracture, a neck injury after a crash, and a back pain case that brings the whole course together.
Case 13 · Off the Rim: Shoulder Dislocation, Joints, Planes and Prime Movers
A 20-year-old university basketball player dislocated his right shoulder landing from a rebound. At his sports clinic review, classify the bones and joints involved, describe each movement by plane, axis and prime movers, compare the pectoral and pelvic girdles, and check for nerve injury.
Case 14 · Rolled Over: Ankle Sprain and the Lower Limb in Motion
A 21-year-old student rolled her ankle playing basketball. Examine the lower limb as you would in the joints practical: classify the bones and joints, name each movement by plane and axis, identify the prime movers, and palpate the landmarks that decide whether she needs an X-ray.
Case 15 · Group Station Round: A Hip Fracture and the Pelvic Girdle
Group practical. An 82-year-old woman has fractured the neck of her femur. Your group runs a four-station anatomy round on her case: the pelvic girdle and hip joint, the muscles that deform the leg, the comparison with the pectoral girdle, and the clinical importance, then submits one shared answer set.
Case 16 · Rear-Ended: Neck Pain, the Cervical Spine and When to Immobilize
A 28-year-old driver was hit from behind and has neck pain. Identify the features of cervical vertebrae, recognize the cervical curvature, and decide which findings point to a fracture or dislocation that endangers the spinal cord and breathing.
Case 17 · Lifting the Load: Back Pain, Stress and a Lunchtime Emergency
A 42-year-old warehouse supervisor is admitted with a left L5-S1 disc herniation, under heavy stress about his job and family. Apply the anatomy of the vertebral column, joints and muscles to his examination, analyse his case with the biopsychosocial model, plan the consultation, manage a choking emergency at lunch, and respond to a colleague's unprofessional behaviour.
Make it yours
Adapt every case to your study plan
The built-in cases are a starting point, not a limit. Review each key and model answer against your course textbook and current guidelines, in particular the Basic Life Support steps, and change anything you need with the activity builder.
- Edit the scenario, items, keys, rationales and model answers
- Write your own items of all eight types
- Replace activity documents and answer keys with your own
- Build patient charts in a form, or from a Synthea patient
- Assign the same case to different sections at different times
- Use individual and group practicals
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