Department & care
Building a clinical case
From an anonymised discharge letter, a standard block of four slides: presentation, investigations, course, take-home message.
Screenshot of a real tool · fictitious data, names blurred
The problem
Clinical cases are the raw material for teaching, workshops and interactive conference sessions. Formatting them one by one, each in its own way, takes a disproportionate amount of time.
Step-by-step method
- Anonymise first, locally: name, date of birth, identifiers, exact dates, places. Anything not needed for the clinical reasoning is removed. In the speaker notes, a pseudonym replaces any reference to the patient.
- Upload the anonymised letter (or the report, the ECG, the anonymised imaging screenshot).
- Apply a fixed four-slide template: divider; initial presentation; investigations; course and follow-up. Telegraphic text on the left, figure on the right.
- Compile: each new case is added to a collection (workshop, interactive session, teaching bank).
- Write the template once into a skill, so that “build this case” is enough from then on.
- Compile and number: a table of contents of the cases and a table of contents of the cases that have loops; provisional identifiers A, B, C until the final numbering is agreed before the event; one case per block. A “how to use” slide at the top of the compilation, to be removed before the session.
- Extrapolate nothing: a value missing from the report or unreadable on the image is marked “to be confirmed”, never inferred.
- Drive the compilation from a data file and a generator: add the case to the file, then regenerate; never edit the presentation by hand, as the change would be lost at the next generation.
- Flag duplicates and discrepancies: the same patient appearing twice, a value that differs between the letter and the report. Both versions are shown, and you decide.
Deliverable
A consistent four-slide block, ready to be added to a compilation.
Safeguards
No identifying data is sent to the AI. If in doubt about an image (burned-in name, date), it is cropped or excluded. Check your institution’s rules on using patient data for teaching.
Starter prompt
Here is an anonymised hospital discharge letter. Build a clinical case in 4 slides (divider, presentation, investigations, course), telegraphic text on the left, figure placeholder on the right. Flag any information that still looks identifying to you.