CCS-style ophthalmology cases for residents taking call. Triage the page, examine the patient, order what your hospital actually has, call your attending and write the note. Then see what you missed.
One full case, no account needed. About 20 minutes.
The clock is simulated, like the CCS. Every question, exam and test costs time, and the patient keeps getting better or worse while you decide.
Ask the caller what you need. They're sometimes wrong. Give verbal orders, then decide: go now, finish what you're doing, then go, or phone advice.
Examine the patient, who won't always cooperate. Order exams, tests, treatments and calls, then advance the clock for results.
Call your attending with a one-liner, the key findings and your plan. They answer based on what you've done so far.
Diagnosis, disposition and your note. Your score by area, every critical action you missed or did late, and why it matters.
The sample case is the same simulator and grading as the full set. No sign-up.
Built-in cases cover the consults that come in overnight, from the ones that can't wait to the ones that get over-called. Cases written by residents and faculty are added once the editorial board approves them.
Vision lost in minutes to hours
Needs a plan before you leave
Safe to manage by phone, if you ask the right things
Call nights. Several pages on one clock. While you're with one patient the others keep progressing, and walking between them takes time.
Sign in to startEach program has an account admin, usually a program director or chief, who sets things up once.
Turn off what your hospital doesn't have, say where it's available, set turnaround times and hours. No B-scan in the ED overnight? The cases follow that.
Who to call for MRI after hours, where the consult cart lives, how to reach the retina fellow. It shows up inside each case.
Scores over time, scores by area, and the critical actions each resident keeps missing. Only your program's account admin sees your residents' results.
Saw a consult other residents should learn from? Write it up. Anyone can submit, and every case goes through the editorial board before it's published.
No. Ophtho Cases uses a CCS-style format (a simulated clock, type-to-search orders and scored actions) for eye consults. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the NBME, FSMB or USMLE.
Interns about to start ophthalmology call, and PGY-2s in their first months of it. Senior residents and faculty can write and review cases.
Your program's account admin sends you a setup link. To write cases, make a contributor account.
No. Cases are fictionalized composites, and images are de-identified before they're submitted and checked again by the editorial board. Never enter PHI.
The built-in cases are draft content written from standard references (Wills Eye Manual, AAO BCSC, EyeWiki), not yet reviewed by an attending. For practice only. Contributed cases are written by residents and faculty and reviewed by the editorial board before they go live.
No. It's for practice. Follow your attending and your institution's protocols.
Start with the free case, or sign in if your program has set you up.
Ophtho Cases