IvyMed · Step 2 CK & Clerkships
Clinical Cases
Work a virtual patient the way you would on the wards — ask, examine, differentiate, order, treat. Every encounter is graded twice: on what you found, and on how you reasoned. The second score is the one that moves.
How to score a 3
The rubric, and the four habits that cost most students a full point per criterion.
OpenWatch a 2 become a 3
A case walked end to end. Write your answer at each step, then compare it against both versions.
OpenHow to ace any case
Sentence templates, interview technique, the seven-category sweep, the traps, and the drills.
OpenDana Whitfield
41-year-old female
Agitation and tremor in a 41-year-old woman
Chief complaint: Agitation
Emergency Department
Priya Raman
23-year-old female
Mood swings in a 23-year-old woman
Chief complaint: Mood swings
Outpatient Psychiatry
Walter Osei
78-year-old male
Confusion in a 78-year-old man
Chief complaint: Confusion
Inpatient Medicine — Psychiatry Consult
Graded like the wards
Four criteria scored 0–3: Initial Differential, Directed History, Differential Diagnosis, Directed Testing.
Habits, not just scores
The debrief names the specific habit behind each lost point, quoted from your own session.
Evidence-first differentials
Attach supporting and opposing findings to every diagnosis. A bare list scores a 2 no matter how correct it is.