Educational Cases and the Case Sharing Project

The Case Sharing project: Using SimulConsult software you can publish a presentation of a patient's findings automatically as a “Shared Case”.  The case appears immediately on the Web with built-in links for doctors to jump into the SimulConsult software with all the patient's findings already entered.  Editors feature some of the shared cases in monthly lists of educational cases for doctors to work through. The contact person at each participating institution gets a monthly e-mail with the actual diagnoses. 

Intended audience: The Case Sharing project is intended both for residents and other doctors in practice who want to keep their skills sharp and up to date with the latest advances in diagnostic knowledge.  Institutions participating in the Case Sharing project get free access to the software without needing passwords; individuals can get free access by registering online.

Enhancing the wisdom of the community: As doctors work through the shared cases they know that the disease highest in the differential diagnosis is not necessarily the right answer, and they can publish to the database the missing information that would have helped the program do a more accurate job.  In this way didactic learning sessions leave a lasting record - the program's database becomes a repository of information that learns from the wisdom of the community and helps in future diagnoses.

Guidelines for submitting "Educational Cases":

• The case must be about a real patient.

• There must be a diagnosis (for unknown diagnoses see Unknown Cases), but you can publish the case whether or not the true diagnosis came out high in the differential diagnosis in the software. 

• You must have been one of the medical professionals involved in some way.

• You must be a registered user of the software (click here for free registration). 

Clicking "File" and then "Publish Case" in the software automatically publishes a case to the Web, with appropriate privacy protections. For more details on using the software, publishing cases and using Shared Cases, see the online video demos.

To arrange institutional access click here.

View the cases (grouped by module):

Inherited and congenital Neurological diseases

Acknowledgements

Thanks for suggestions about the cases pages in general to: Drs. Barry Kosofsky, C. J. Malanga and James Reggin.  Acknowledgements for submission of cases are given in the pages for individual modules.