Framework Source: VibeRounds Combined Modules 1–20
Protocol Version: 1.1 — June 2026
Validated Against: 60F with Coma, E Coli Sepsis, Cervical Myelopathy, and Albumino-Cytological Dissociation in CSF
Changelog (v1.0 → v1.1): Added Stage 7 — Further Requested Information Synthesis, and a new fourth output file (VibeRounds-FurtherInfo-[CaseName].md) that consolidates every history, examination, and investigation gap surfaced anywhere in Stages 1–6 into one prioritized, actionable list. See Protocol Maintenance Notes at the end of this file for the full rationale.
.md files:
VibeRounds-TopInsights-[CaseName].md — Top 10 clinical insights (standalone, shareable summary)VibeRounds-CaseAnalysis-[CaseName].md — Prompt mapping, ranking, and full high-value prompt answersVibeRounds-CARE-AdvocateDebrief-[CaseName].md — CARE case report and advocate debriefVibeRounds-FurtherInfo-[CaseName].md — (New in v1.1) Consolidated, prioritized list of further history, examination, and investigation details that would be high-value to obtain, with the reasoning for eachData Safety Note: Only use de-identified or consent-obtained public case records. Do not paste identifying information (full name, date of birth, address, hospital number) into any LLM session. This protocol is an educational tool, not a clinical decision-making service. All outputs require independent clinical verification before any action is taken.
INPUT
├── VibeRounds Modules 1–20 (uploaded file)
└── Case link or narrative (provided by user)
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STAGE 1 — Case Ingestion
Read and extract structured clinical details from the case source
(flags information gaps as [NOT DOCUMENTED] — these feed Stage 7)
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STAGE 2 — Prompt Mapping
Match VibeRounds prompts from all 20 modules to the patient's clinical features
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STAGE 3 — Prompt Ranking
Rank all matched prompts 1–10 on clinical importance for this specific case
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STAGE 4 — High-Value Prompt Execution
Answer all prompts rated 8–10 in full clinical depth
(each answer may surface its own information gaps — tag inline, feed Stage 7)
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STAGE 5 — Insight Synthesis
Extract the top 10 clinical insights from all analysis above
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STAGE 6 — CARE Report + Advocate Debrief
Produce CARE-format case write-up and structured advocate journey analysis
(CARE 5c "missing investigations" and debrief inflection points feed Stage 7)
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STAGE 7 — Further Requested Information Synthesis (NEW in v1.1)
Pool every flagged gap from Stages 1, 4, and 6 into one deduplicated,
prioritized, actionable request list
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OUTPUT
├── File 1: VibeRounds-TopInsights-[CaseName].md
├── File 2: VibeRounds-CaseAnalysis-[CaseName].md
├── File 3: VibeRounds-CARE-AdvocateDebrief-[CaseName].md
└── File 4: VibeRounds-FurtherInfo-[CaseName].md (NEW in v1.1)
Objective: Extract a complete, structured summary of the clinical case from the provided source.
Instructions for AI:
[NOT DOCUMENTED] if absent:Patient demographics: age, sex, occupation, social/geographical background
Chief complaint and mode of presentation
Background history (duration, prior diagnoses, prior treatments)
Symptom timeline (chronological — when each symptom appeared or changed)
Medications (name, dose, frequency, route, duration, any self-modifications)
Examination findings (vitals, systemic, neurological, others)
Investigations (results, dates where available, units)
Procedures performed
Working diagnoses at presentation
Management given
Outcome
Investigations NOT performed but clinically indicated
Patient/advocate narrative (if present)
Quality gate before proceeding: Confirm the case has enough clinical content to support at least 8 usable VibeRounds prompts. If not, flag this and ask the user for additional case detail before continuing.
Stage 7 hand-off (NEW in v1.1): Every field marked [NOT DOCUMENTED] in this stage is a candidate entry for the Stage 7 information request list. Do not discard these — carry the field name and a one-line note on why it matters forward into a running “gap log” that Stage 7 will consolidate. This running gap log is internal working scratch, not a deliverable in itself — it only needs to persist within the session/context so Stage 7 can pool it.
Objective: Identify every VibeRounds prompt across Modules 1–20 that is directly applicable to this patient’s clinical features.
Instructions for AI:
# | Module | Step | Prompt Purpose | Patient-Context TriggerMapping triggers by module (reference guide):
| Module | Triggered when case has… |
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| M1 — Socratic Clinical Reasoning | Any diagnostic uncertainty; reasoning gaps; learning context |
| M2 — Patient-Advocate Documentation | Family/caregiver narrative present; non-medical documentation of course |
| M3 — Extended Monitoring | Longitudinal deterioration over weeks/months documented |
| M4 — Ward Round Preparation | Acute admission; multi-system complexity; handover moments |
| M5 — Real-Time Case Review | Longitudinal data (glucose logs, medication logs, serial bloods) |
| M6 — Registry Analytics | Population-level patterns implied; case belongs to a known registry |
| M7 — Cross-Case Learning | Similar cases exist or are mentioned; registry context |
| M8 — Socratic Design QA | Session being designed for teaching; prompt quality review needed |
| M9 — N-of-1 Research Protocol | Complex, multi-system, unusual case suitable for case report |
| M10 — Article Reading | Specific paper directly relevant to case findings |
| M11 — Patient Education | Patient/family information needs visible in narrative |
| M12 — Differential Diagnosis Deepdive | Working diagnosis formed but contested; anchoring risk present |
| M13 — Polypharmacy Audit | 5+ medications; drug-disease conflicts; prescribing cascade risk |
| M14 — Resource-Constrained Reasoning | Investigations unavailable; transport limitations; low-resource setting |
| M15 — Illness Script Acquisition | Typical/atypical presentation; script mismatch visible |
| M16 — Basic Science Integration | Mechanism-to-diagnosis link important for this case |
| M17 — Semantic Qualifiers | Problem representation needs to be corrected or sharpened |
| M18 — Causal Network Reasoning | Multiple findings interact conditionally; one finding changes weight of another |
| M19 — Community & Social Medicine | Social determinants of health visible; occupation/environment relevant |
| M20 — Recognition-Primed Decision | Time-critical moment present; acute deterioration; stat call scenario |
Objective: Rank all mapped prompts by clinical importance for this specific case.
Instructions for AI:
Rank | Score | Prompt | JustificationObjective: Answer every prompt scored 8–10 in full clinical depth, applied specifically to this patient.
Instructions for AI:
Minimum answer length per high-value prompt: Sufficient to be clinically actionable. A bulleted list of five words is not an answer. A paragraph that names the mechanism, the clinical consequence, and the action is the minimum standard.
Stage 7 hand-off (NEW in v1.1): Many high-value answers will, in the course of full clinical reasoning, surface a piece of missing history, an examination step that was never documented as performed, or an investigation that would resolve a stated uncertainty (this is most likely from Module 12 differential challenges, Module 13 polypharmacy audits, Module 14 resource-reasoning, Module 18 network reasoning, and Module 20 escalation-threshold answers). Whenever this happens, append one line to the running gap log in the format:
[GAP] <Module.Step> | <what is missing> | <why it would change the answer>
This tagging is lightweight and internal — it does not change the formatting of the Stage 4 answer itself, it just marks the gap for Stage 7 pooling.
Objective: Extract the top 10 clinical insights from all analysis above.
Instructions for AI:
Objective: Produce two structured documents — a CARE-format case report and a structured advocate journey debrief.
Follow all 12 CARE guideline fields in sequence:
1. Title
Format: [Age][Sex] with [chief complaint(s)] and [key investigation finding]: [educational contribution of case]
2. Abstract Four paragraphs: Background (why this case matters clinically) | Case Summary (≤150 words) | Key Learning Points (numbered, minimum 3) | Conclusion (one sentence on the educational contribution)
3. Introduction Why this case is clinically and educationally important. What gap in practice it exposes. What it contributes that existing literature does not.
4. Patient Information Structured table: demographics, occupation, social/geographical background, comorbidities, prior diagnoses.
5. Clinical Findings Two sub-sections:
| 5b: Examination findings (table: parameter | finding | clinical significance) |
| 5c: Investigations (table: investigation | result | interpretation; explicitly flag missing investigations) |
6. Timeline Chronological flow diagram or structured timeline from first symptoms to outcome, with each major clinical event, decision point, and missed pivot labelled.
7. Diagnostic Assessment
| Unestablished diagnoses — differential table (diagnosis | supporting evidence | against | investigation required) |
8. Therapeutic Interventions Table: intervention | timing | rationale | outcome. Include a separate row for each intervention that was NOT initiated but was indicated, with justification.
9. Follow-Up and Outcomes What happened. If fatal: what post-mortem data was or was not obtained, and what that means for learning.
10. Discussion Three to four named teaching points, each structured as: what happened → what should have happened → why the gap occurred → what would prevent it.
11. Patient Perspective
Reconstructed from any patient or advocate narrative in the case source. If none exists, mark as [Not documented — patient perspective unavailable].
12. Informed Consent Statement Source and consent status of the case material.
Structure:
Opening: What is an advocate debrief? One paragraph defining its purpose — not criticism of the family, but clinical systems analysis of what healthcare encounters failed to provide.
The Advocate’s Role: What specific roles did the family caregiver play in this case? (Historian, medication administrator, wound care coordinator, decision-maker, etc.)
Inflection Point Analysis: For each major clinical turning point in the case (minimum 5 inflection points), produce:
### Inflection Point [N] — [Name of moment]
**What happened:** [clinical event]
**What the advocate understood:** [their likely interpretation]
**What the advocate needed to know:** [specific information, in plain language]
**The question the advocate needed to ask:** [exact wording they could have used]
**VibeRounds module applied:** [Module X, Step Y]
[Module 11-style red flag table or Module 2-style information brief where applicable]
What the Advocate Did Well: Explicit acknowledgement of what the family managed correctly — this section is mandatory and must not be omitted.
Advocate Learning Summary: Apply Module 2 Step 2.8 (Bloom’s Remember → Understand → Apply) as three questions and model answers the advocate should have been able to answer at discharge.
Recommendations for Future Similar Cases: Four to six specific, actionable recommendations — for the clinical team, for the prescribing clinician, for the discharge process, and for the healthcare system.
Stage 7 hand-off (NEW in v1.1): Two specific elements of Stage 6 are required Stage 7 inputs, not optional ones:
Add both to the running gap log using the same [GAP] tag format as Stage 4, e.g. [GAP] CARE-5c | <investigation> | <why> or [GAP] Inflection-3 | <history detail> | <why>.
Objective: Consolidate every history detail, examination finding, and investigation that is missing from the case but would be high clinical value to obtain — pooled from across the entire pipeline — into one deduplicated, prioritized, actionable request list.
Why this stage exists: Stages 1, 4, and 6 each surface information gaps independently and for different reasons (Stage 1 — simple absence from the source record; Stage 4 — a gap that blocks full resolution of a high-value clinical question; Stage 6 — a gap named explicitly in CARE 5c or needed by the advocate at a specific inflection point). Without a synthesis stage, these gaps stay scattered across three different files in three different formats, and the single most clinically actionable output of the whole pipeline — “if I could ask one more thing, what would move this case forward most” — never gets assembled. Stage 7 closes that loop.
Instructions for AI:
[GAP] tag logged during Stages 1, 4, and 6, plus every field marked [NOT DOCUMENTED] in the Stage 1 structured extraction, plus every “investigation required” entry from the CARE 7 differential table.Output format — table per category:
| Score | Item Requested | Flagged By (Stage/Module) | Resolves/Excludes | Best Placed To Obtain |
Quality gate before proceeding to file writing: Confirm every item in CARE field 5c (“explicitly flag missing investigations”) and every Stage 4 [GAP] tag has a corresponding row in this stage’s output. If any flagged gap from an earlier stage is missing here, go back and add it before writing File 4 — Stage 7 must be a complete pool, not a re-summary.
VibeRounds-TopInsights-[CaseName].mdPurpose: A standalone, shareable summary of the most important clinical learning from this case. Designed to be read independently — without needing to open the full analysis file.
Contains:
VibeRounds-CaseAnalysis-[CaseName].mdContains:
VibeRounds-CARE-AdvocateDebrief-[CaseName].mdContains:
VibeRounds-FurtherInfo-[CaseName].md (NEW in v1.1)Purpose: A standalone, actionable “what to ask/examine/order next” reference — the single file a clinician or advocate would consult if the case were still live and they wanted to know what to do next to close the most important information gaps. Designed to be read independently.
Contains:
Naming convention:
[CaseName] = abbreviated identifier derived from the case (e.g., 60F-EColi-Sepsis, 45M-DKA-Tropical, 72F-Dementia-Falls). Use age + sex + two to three key clinical features, hyphen-separated, no spaces. The same [CaseName] is used across all four output files.
Before writing any output file, the AI must confirm:
[NOT DOCUMENTED][GAP] tag logged during Stages 1, 4, and 6 has a corresponding row in Stage 7’s output — no flagged gap is dropped silently[CaseName] across all four filesCopy and send this prompt to Claude (with this protocol file and the VibeRounds Modules 1–20 file uploaded):
#VibeRounds Run the full Master Case Analysis Protocol (v1.1) on the following case:
[PASTE CASE LINK OR CASE NARRATIVE HERE]
Execute all seven pipeline stages in sequence:
Stage 1 — Case ingestion and structured extraction (log all [NOT DOCUMENTED] fields)
Stage 2 — Prompt mapping across all 20 modules
Stage 3 — Prompt ranking by clinical importance (1–10)
Stage 4 — Full answers to all prompts scored 8–10 (tag any [GAP] surfaced along the way)
Stage 5 — Top 10 clinical insights
Stage 6 — CARE-format case report (all 12 fields) + Advocate debrief (all sections; tag any [GAP] from CARE 5c or inflection points)
Stage 7 — Pool all logged gaps into a prioritized Further Requested Information synthesis
Deliver four output .md files:
File 1: VibeRounds-TopInsights-[CaseName].md
File 2: VibeRounds-CaseAnalysis-[CaseName].md
File 3: VibeRounds-CARE-AdvocateDebrief-[CaseName].md
File 4: VibeRounds-FurtherInfo-[CaseName].md
Follow all quality checks in the protocol before writing the output files.
State which stage you are in before beginning each one.
Do not collapse stages or skip ahead.
This protocol IS:
This protocol IS NOT:
This protocol was developed and validated in June 2026 against one complex multi-system case. As additional cases are run through the pipeline, the following should be updated:
[GAP] tagging convention introduced in Stages 1, 4, and 6 depends on the AI consistently logging gaps as it goes, rather than retrospectively reconstructing them at Stage 7. If early runs of v1.1 show Stage 7 outputs missing gaps that were clearly visible in Stage 4 or CARE 5c text, tighten the Stage 4/6 hand-off instructions further (e.g., require the [GAP] tag to be emitted inline immediately, not deferred to “end of stage” summarization) rather than asking Stage 7 to re-read and re-mine the entire prior output from scratch.The original six-stage pipeline produced excellent retrospective analysis (what happened, what it meant, what should have happened) but left “what should be asked/examined/ordered next” scattered as a side-effect across three different files in three different formats (Stage 1’s [NOT DOCUMENTED] tags, CARE field 5c, and individual advocate inflection points). For an educational tool whose stated purpose includes surfacing diagnostic gaps, this scattering meant the single most actionable output — a prioritized list of what would move the case forward — was never actually assembled anywhere. Stage 7 and File 4 close that gap by treating “further requested information” as a first-class pipeline output with its own dependency chain, rather than an incidental by-product of other stages. See the companion file VibeRounds-Dependency-Network-Map.md for the full inter-stage dependency structure this introduces.
VibeRounds Master Case Analysis Protocol v1.1 — June 2026 All outputs generated using this protocol are educational. Independent clinical verification is required before acting on any content. This protocol does not constitute clinical advice, diagnostic guidance, or a substitute for professional medical judgment.