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Course Plan

Clinical Cognition, From First Principles

A dual-track course (clinician / techie) built from the 57-module VibeRounds prompt library — teaching how clinical reasoning actually moves, not just what conclusion it reaches. Now spanning 13 lessons: the first 9 teach the core cognitive engine, the last 4 (Advanced Reasoning, Operations, Precision Medicine, Clinical Wisdom) teach specialization, systems thinking, and mastery. This page tracks status, sources, and build strategy. Say "see the course plan page and prepare the next chapter" to continue; say "remove the course plan page" once the course is complete.

Lesson Tracker

#LessonSource modulesTechie translation anchorStatus
1 What Is Clinical Cognition? M0, M1, M32, M31, M57 Reasoning trace vs. final output token done
2 The Socratic Loop M1, M8, M54 Rate-limited responses; forced-commit before code review done
3 Building the Differential M12, M15, M17, M36, M14, M16, M18, M20, M33, M56 Feature extraction → Bayesian prior update done
4 Bias & Failure Modes M26, M28, M30, M37, M24 Adversarial testing / red-teaming your own output done
5 Patient Advocacy Track M2, M3, M11, M13 Structured longitudinal state logging pending
6 Analytics at Scale M5, M6, M22, M23, M27 Single-record query vs. registry-level aggregate query pending
7 Safety & Systems Thinking M29, M38, M42, M49 FMEA — borrowed straight from engineering pending
8 Evidence & Calibration M21, M35, M45/46, Shadow Modules Multi-domain confidence, not one scalar score pending
9 Full Case, Start to Finish M50, Master Protocol End-to-end trace / full request log pending
10 Clinical Reasoning Beyond Diagnosis M18, M20, M31, M56, M57 How expert systems reason beyond a single output — meta-cognition and model self-critique pending
11 Healthcare Systems & Operations M39, M40, M41, M43 Extending single-agent reasoning to multi-agent / org-level workflows pending
12 Precision Medicine & Personalized Care M44, M45, M47, M48 Personalization layers; conflicting-evidence resolution pending
13 Clinical Wisdom & Mastery M51, M52, M53, M55 Tacit-knowledge capture; distinguishing competence from expertise pending
Optional appendix / electives (not in main sequence) M9 (N-of-1 Research), M10 (Journal Reading), M19 (Community Medicine), M25 (Thematic Analysis), M7 (Longitudinal Cross-Case Learning) — useful but kept out of the main lesson flow so they don't interrupt pacing.

Build Strategy

Structure, not invention

The 13-lesson sequence maps onto the 7 cognitive lenses already used to tag the 57 modules (Reasoning, Advocacy, Analytics, Safety, Education, Operations, Meta-Design) — the course surfaces an existing taxonomy rather than inventing a new one. Lessons 1–9 teach the core cognitive engine; Lessons 10–13 extend into specialization, systems thinking, and mastery, giving all 57 modules a clear conceptual home instead of forcing every module into the original 9.

Dual-track by default

Every lesson carries a 🩺 clinician box and a 💻 techie box at each major concept — mirroring the EBM course's "for non-medical readers" translation layer, applied consistently rather than as an occasional aside.

One worked example per lesson

Every lesson must ground its concept in at least one concrete case (a real prompt, a real transcript excerpt, or a constructed worked case) — no lesson should explain a concept only in the abstract.

Homework continuity

Each lesson's homework should feed the next lesson's worked example, the same way the EBM course carries one patient case from Lesson 1 through Lesson 9.

One visual theme, shared with the EBM course

This course intentionally reuses the same paper-and-teal design system as Evidence-Based Medicine, From First Principles — same fonts (Source Serif 4 / Inter / IBM Plex Mono), same color tokens, same dual-track box, callout, prompt-block, and homework components. A reader moving between the two sibling courses should feel it's one continuous site, not two separately designed ones.

VibeRounds badge on every lesson

Every lesson page (not the course plan) opens its <main> with a short callout crediting VibeRounds and Guided Discovery, matching the badge already used throughout the EBM course. Carry this forward automatically on each new lesson — see the exact markup in the callout below.

Standard lesson-opening badge (copy verbatim into every new lesson) <div class="callout" id="viberounds-badge">
  <span class="label">VibeRounds</span>
  This course is built in the spirit of <a href="https://avi33tbtt.github.io/">VibeRounds</a> — Socratic learning (AI that questions rather than answers) and Guided Discovery, part of the wider Clinical Cognition Operating System.
</div>
Honest scope note Modules underlying Lessons 5 and 6 (Advocacy, Analytics) are thinner and more experimental than Lessons 3, 4, and 7 — Module 7 (Longitudinal & Cross-Case Learning) is explicitly marked "proposed; not yet validated live" in the source directory. Those lessons should stay shorter rather than be padded to match lesson length elsewhere.

Source Resources

Relationship to the EBM Course

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Evidence-Based Medicine, From First Principles

EBM asks "can I trust this evidence?" — this course asks "how did I get from findings to a judgment in the first place?" They are complementary, not sequential: a reader can start with either. Where useful, a lesson here links out to the matching EBM lesson (e.g. Lesson 8 — Evidence & Calibration should link to EBM Lesson 3 on appraising an RCT, and to EBM Lesson 8 on statistics and p-hacking). Both courses share the same dual-track, patient-first teaching voice and the same non-clinical-use disclaimer.

How to Continue This Course

To build the next lesson

see the course plan page and prepare the next chapter

This will: pull the next "pending" row from the tracker above, fetch the listed source modules from the Prompts directory, write the lesson in the same shared EBM-course visual theme as the existing lessons (dual-track boxes, worked example, homework, pager nav, VibeRounds badge at the top of <main>), update this tracker's status to "done," and add a link to the EBM course where the topic overlaps.

To finish and ship

remove the course plan page

This will delete this file, and update Lesson 1's and the final lesson's (now Lesson 13) navigation so neither links to it anymore.