Family Medicine Computer-Assisted Simulations for Educating Students (fmCASES) is here and ready for free pilot testing!
Case Access
To sign up for free pilot testing, email us at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). See below for additional information.
Family Medicine educators are realizing a dream: a comprehensive set of peer-reviewed online cases to teach the core curriculum of the family medicine clerkship. In partnership with iInTIME, a team of STFM educators has developed a set of 29 virtual patient cases. These cases will build clinical competency, fill educational gaps, and model the core values of family medicine. They will also help clerkship directors meet LCME’s ED-2 and ED-8 standards.
Using the FMCR (Family Medicine Curriculum Resource), NBME Task Force curriculum topics, and the Future of Family Medicine as resources, these cases were carefully designed to cover common topics for the Family Medicine Clerkship. fmCASES fosters self-directed and independent study, emphasizes and models clinical problem-solving, and teaches an evidence-based and generalist approach to patient care. Each case is designed to draw the learner into the encounter, through dialog, questions, and answers. Diagnostic networks stimulate clinical reasoning and critical thinking.
fmCASES will help standardize the educational content and provide a consistent learning experience across training sites and times of year. The resource may also be used to remediate deficiencies in student knowledge. Once complete, a case outline and summary of the key teaching points will be provided at the end of each case. The outline and summary can serve both as a study guide for students and as a teaching guide for preceptors.
One of the exciting aspects of fmCASES is the ability to collaborate with STFM colleagues from schools across the country, as well as colleagues from other disciplines. With the completion of this set of cases fmCASES joins the MedU collaborative, including CLIPP (Pediatrics), SIMPLE (Internal Medicine) and WISE-MD (Surgery) to create a virtual patient curriculum spanning four core disciplines. While each discipline will have its own editorial board for their cases, there are excellent opportunities for these four disciplines to create a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research agenda.
Please join us in this exciting project! Together we can improve Family Medicine education for our students.
Shou Ling Leong, M.D.
Leslie Fall, M.D.
The fmCASES Project Development Group
To sign up for free pilot testing and to submit your name as a peer reviewer, please e-mail us at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Case List
Case #1: 45-year-old female annual exam - Mrs. Payne NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Thomas Tafelski, M.D., University of Toledo
Author: Saudia Mushkbar, M.D., Neighborhood Health Clinic, Fort Wayne, IN
Mentor: Shou Ling Leong, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Case #2: 55-year-old male annual exam - Mr. Reynolds NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Jason Chao, M.D., Case Western Reserve University
Case #3: 65-year-old female with insomnia - Mrs. Gomez NOW AVAILABLE
Author: William Hay, M.D., University of Nebraska
Mentor: Shou Ling Leong, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Case #4: 17-year-old female with sports injury - Christina Martinez NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Stella King, M.D., University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, TX
Mentor: Jason Chao, M.D., Case Western Reserve University
Case #5: 30-year-old female with palpitations - Ms. Waters NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Katherine Margo, M.D., University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: John Waits, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Case #6: 57-year-old female presents for follow-up visit for diabetes – Ms. Sanchez NOW AVAILABLE
Authors: Alexander Chessman, M.D., Donna Kern, M.D.; Medical University of South Carolina
Case #7: 53-year-old male with leg swelling – Mr. Smith NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Robert Mallin, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Mentor: John Waits, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Case #8: 54-year-old male with elevated blood pressure – Mr. Martin NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Pablo Joo, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mentor: Stephen Scott, M.D., MPH, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
Case #9: 50-year-old female with palpitations – Ms. Yang NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Carol Motley, M.D., University of South Alabama
Mentor: Alexander Chessman, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Case #10: 45-year-old male with low back pain – Mr. Payne NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Shou Ling Leong, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Case #11: 74-year-old female with knee pain – Ms. Roman NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Jacqueline Weaver-Agostoni, M.D., University Pittsburgh
Mentor: Stephen Scott, M.D., MPH, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
Case #12: 16-year-old female with vaginal bleeding and UCG- Savannah Bauer NOW AVAILABLE
Author: John Waits, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Case #13: 40-year-old male with shortness of breath - Mr. Dennison NOW AVAILABLE
Author: William Huang, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Mentor: Alexander Chessman, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Case #14: 35-year-old female with missed period – Ms. Rios NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Stephen Scott, M.D., MPH, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
Case #15: 42-year-old with RUQ pain
Author: Pamela Rockwell, M.D., University of Michigan
Mentor: John Waits, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Case #16: 68-year-old male with skin lesion - Mr. Fitzgerald NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Augustine Sohn, M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Mentor: John Waits, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Case #17: 55-year-old, post-menopausal female with vaginal bleeding - Mrs. Parker NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Suzanne Clarke, M.D., Michigan State University
Mentor: Shou Ling Leong, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Case #18: 24-year-old female with headaches – Ms. Payne NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Rachel Franklin, M.D., University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Mentor: Shou Ling Leong, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Case #19: 39-year-old male with epigastric pain – Mr. Rodriguez NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Joel Heidelbaugh, M.D., University of Michigan
Mentor: Stephen Scott, M.D., MPH, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
Case #20: 28 year-old female with abdominal pain - Ms. Bell NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Joanne Williams-Cooper, M.D., Emory University
AuthorL Martha Seagrave, P.A.-C., University of Vermont
Mentor: Jason Chao, M.D., Case Western Reserve University
Case #21: 12-year-old female with fever - Marissa Payne NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Elizabeth Brown, M.D., University of Rochester
Mentor: Shou Ling Leong, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Case #22: 70-year-old male with new-onset unilateral weakness - Mr. Wright NOW AVAILABLE
Author: George Nixon, M.D., Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: Alexander Chessman, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Case #23: 5-year-old female with sore throat – Althea Newman NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Pamela Wiseman, M.D., Tulane University School of Medicine
Author: Sarat Raman, M.D., Tulane University School of Medicine
Mentor: Stephen Scott, M.D., MPH, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
Case #24: 4-week-old female with fussiness – Amelia Arlington NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Cathleen Morrow, M.D., Dartmouth Medical School
Mentor: Jason Chao, M.D., Case Western Reserve University
Case #25: 34 year-old male with shoulder pain after a softball game
Author: Peter Lewis, M.D., Penn State College of Medicine
Author: Eric Law, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Mentor: John Waits, M.D., University of Alabama School of Medicine
Case #26: 55-year-old male with fatigue - Mr. Cunha NOW AVAILABLE
Author: David Anthony, M.D., Brown University
Mentor: Stephen Scott, M.D., MPH, Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
Case #27: 17-year-old male with groin pain - Andrew Hailey NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Vasantha Kondamudi, M.D., Weill College of Medicine - Cornell University
Mentor: Jason Chao, M.D., Case Western Reserve University
Case #28: 58-year-old male with shortness of breath – Mr. Smith
Author: Alexander Chessman, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Case #29: Dementia NOW AVAILABLE
Author: Fred Kobylarz, M.D., UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Author: David Anthony, M.D., Brown University
Mentor: Alexander Chessman, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina