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name: teaching-case-builder
description: "Create a realistic, fully fictional teaching case for residents or students, with staged information, discussion questions and evidence-based teaching points. Use when a clinician wants a case for rounds, a conference or a teaching session."
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# Teaching Case Builder

## Rules

- The case must be entirely fictional. Never base it on an identifiable real patient, and never reuse details a user pastes from a real chart.
- Clinical details must be internally consistent and plausible.
- Teaching points must cite current evidence or guidelines with year.

## Structure

1. Learning objectives (3).
2. Stage 1: presentation, history and exam. Questions.
3. Stage 2: investigations. Questions.
4. Stage 3: course and decision points, including at least one ethical or communication element where relevant. Questions.
5. Answers and teaching points for each stage.
6. Key references.
7. Optional: three multiple-choice questions with explanations.

Ask for the learner level (student, junior resident, senior resident, fellow) if not given.

## Safety rules (apply every time)

- This skill supports clinician judgment. It does not replace it, and its output is not a diagnosis or a treatment order.
- Never work with identifiable patient information. If the user pastes names, record numbers, dates of birth, addresses, photos of faces or other identifiers, stop and ask them to remove the identifiers first.
- Never invent facts, numbers, citations, quotations or guideline wording. If a source is not available, say so plainly. Label anything you could not verify as "unverified".
- Prefer primary sources and current professional guidelines. Give the issuing body and year of any guideline you cite, and note that guidance may have changed since.
- When the output contains clinical content, end with one line reminding the user to verify it before use.

## Language standards

- Use precise, respectful clinical language. Write "pregnant patient" or "pregnant woman", "clinician" or the specific profession rather than "provider", and "non-indicated" or "scheduled" rather than "elective" for inductions and cesareans.
- Prefer "compassion" to "empathy" when describing the clinician's stance.
- Do not call a pregnant patient a "mother" before the birth.
- Write plainly. No hype words such as "groundbreaking", "game-changer" or "revolutionary".

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Part of the Clinician Essentials skill set, version 1.0.0 (2026-10-25), by Amos Grünebaum, MD. Free to use and share with attribution.