Cases Collection · User Guide

Find your way around the cases library

Hundreds of SCA-style cases organised by clinical topic and experience group. Here's how to search, filter, and track your progress through them.

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Free to browse · Progress saved when you're logged in

How it works

Three things to know up front

Pick a view, search by keyword, and use the filter popover to narrow things down. That's the whole page.

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    Pick the view that matches how you're thinking

    Top-right of the controls bar, you'll find three view options. Same cases, different lenses:

    List (default) — flat, expandable rows by topic. Best for quickly scanning everything you have left.

    Grid — visual cards with circular progress rings. Best when you want a one-glance overview.

    Priority — your topics auto-sorted into Start next, Keep going, Nearly there, and Mastered. Best for "where do I focus today?"

    List
    Grid
    Priority
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    Search using keyword tags

    The search bar isn't a free-text search — it's a multi-select tag picker. Start typing (you need at least one letter) and a dropdown of matching themes appears. Click any one to add it as a chip.

    Themes match against presenting complaints, diagnoses, and keywords tagged on the case — for example chest pain, atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, end of life.

    Adding more than one chip narrows rather than widens the list — a case has to match every chip you've added. So selecting Chest pain + Diabetes shows only cases tagged with both.

    Click the × on a chip to remove it.

    Chest pain × Diabetes × hyper
    Hypertension — 9 cases
    Hypertensive emergency — 2 cases
    Hyperthyroidism — 4 cases
    Hyperlipidaemia — 3 cases
    ↑↓ to navigate · ↵ to select
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    Fine-tune with the filter popover

    Next to the search bar there's a Filters button. Click it to open a small popover with five toggles. Each one changes what shows in the list — and stays toggled until you switch it back.

    When any filter is active, the button shows a blue badge with the count of active filters, and a chip strip appears under the controls bar so you can see what's applied at a glance and click × to remove any of them.

    Hit Reset all in the top-right of the popover to return everything to defaults in one click.

    Detailed breakdown of what each toggle does below.

    Filters 2
    Filter cases Reset all
    Show diagnosis
    Reveal each case's diagnosis
    Show difficulty
    Display the 0–3 ★ rating
    Video only
    Only cases with a video
    Not done yet
    Hide cases you've completed
    Each case once
    Don't repeat cases across topics
The five filters

What each toggle actually does

The badge next to each filter shows its default state. Toggle it the other way to change what you see.

Show diagnosis
On by default
When on, each case shows its diagnosis (e.g. "Atrial fibrillation") as the headline, with the presenting complaint underneath. When off, the case shows only the presenting complaint (e.g. "68F, palpitations") — better if you want to practise approaching cases without the answer in front of you.
With diagnosis on Atrial fibrillation Margaret, 68 — palpitations
Show difficulty
On by default
Displays a 0 to 3 star rating next to each case. Zero is straightforward, two is exam-typical, three is challenging. Useful when you want to ramp up gradually, or pick out only the harder ones for a final-prep run.
Rating scale ★ ★ ★  Zero stars (easiest) ★ ★ ★  Three stars (challenging)
Video only
Off by default
Hides every case that doesn't have an accompanying trainer video. Useful when you want to study with the video walk-through alongside, or when you're revising visually rather than reading. Cases with videos show a small video camera icon next to the difficulty stars.
Identifier Video icon shown in the case row
Not done yet
Off by default
Hides any case you've already marked as completed (the green tick). Useful late in revision, when you want to hide what you've already done and focus on what's left. Toggle this off again any time you want to revisit a case you've finished.
When on Hides everything with a ✓ green check
Each case once
Off by default
Some cases belong to more than one clinical topic — for example, a postnatal mental-health case lives under both Mental Health and Women's Health. By default, the case shows in both topics so you can find it from either route. When on, each case appears only under its first listed topic — useful if you want a clean total without duplicates.
Default behaviour A case may appear in 2+ topics if it's tagged that way
Tracking progress

Tick cases off as you finish them

Every case row has a checkbox on the left. Tap it once to mark a case completed — the box turns green and a tick appears. Tap it again to un-tick.

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    Progress is automatically saved when you're logged in

    If you're signed in, your tick state syncs across devices and tabs, and shows up in your topic progress bars: each topic header has a thin bar showing how far through that topic you are.

    Topic counts (3/8 done, etc.) appear next to the bar so you always know how many cases are left.

    The hero stats at the very top of the page show your overall total: cases done across the whole library, percentage complete, number of topics in scope.

    If you're not logged in, you'll see a small notice at the top of the controls — log in via the site header and your progress will load.

    − Cardiovascular
    4/8
    Margaret, 68 — Falls ★★★
    Dev, 42 — Chest pain ★★★
    Priya, 29 — Palpitations ★★★
    Rashid, 55 — Stroke ★★★
    + Respiratory
    2/7
    + Endocrine
    0/5
Common questions

A few things people ask

What's the difference between Clinical topics and Experience groups?

Clinical topics group cases by body system or specialty — Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Mental Health, Women's Health, etc. This is how most people browse during early revision.

Experience groups group by RCGP curriculum themes — for example, "New presentation of undifferentiated disease" or "Care of acutely ill people". This is closer to how the SCA assesses you and useful when you're double-checking exam coverage.

Toggle between them with the segmented control just left of the view switcher.

How is my progress saved?

When you tick a case as done, the change is saved to your account immediately and synced to any other tabs or devices you're logged into. You don't need to click save anywhere.

If you're not logged in, ticks are stored locally on that device only and won't follow you across browsers — log in via the header to sync.

Why am I seeing fewer cases than I expected?

Almost always one of three things:

1. You have filters active — check the chip strip just below the controls bar; click any × to remove a filter.

2. You have keyword chips selected in the search bar — remember chips combine with AND, so a case has to match every chip. Try removing one.

3. Video only is on — try toggling it off in the Filters popover.

Can I do a random case?

Yes. The Random case button in the hero (top-right) picks one at random from whatever's currently visible — so the active filters, search chips, and "Not done yet" toggle all apply.

That means you can set up a tight filter (e.g. only undone three-star cardiovascular cases) and then just hit Random whenever you want a quick session.

What's the Recently added section at the bottom?

A 5×2 grid of the ten most recently added cases. Useful when you want to dive straight into the newest content without browsing.

Click Show case names beneath the thumbnails to see titles and tags in a list.

Ready when you are

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