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Follow a question from your course or clinic
Search available cases for a condition, pattern, formula or herb you want to understand.
For your study: Find a concrete example while the question is fresh.
For students of Chinese herbal medicine
Turn what you know into clinical reasoning.
Bring your grounding in Chinese medicine to the herbal choices made in real cases. Practise explaining your view, then develop it with guidance and tutor feedback.
Put your learning to work
Practise the decisions behind the prescription.
Build on your foundation course, clinical experience or other study. Use cases to connect familiar principles with herbal decisions.
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Choose your next challenge
Use tutor-set difficulty and learning notes to find a case that builds on what you know.
For your study: Stretch your understanding at a useful pace.
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Follow the case beyond the first prescription
Read the presentation, decisions and follow-up. Clinical cases and Classical Case Studies are clearly identified.
For your study: Understand the context of a herbal choice.
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Explain your first interpretation
Note the important signs, possible pattern and questions before revealing guidance.
For your study: Bring your own view to the discussion.
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Understand the thinking behind a formula
Use guided questions, hints and formula-herb prompts after considering the case yourself.
For your study: Explain why a formula was considered.
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Explore why similar cases take different paths
Compare presentations, diagnoses, herbal choices and recorded responses.
For your study: Give your comparison a clearer basis.
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Record a case from supervised practice
Upload a de-identified CaseWise DOCX template as a private draft, following your course team's guidance.
For your study: Practise writing a clear clinical account.
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Show your tutor how you reached a view
Save and submit your assignment with your interpretation, reasoning, comparisons and questions.
For your study: Get feedback on the thinking behind your answer.
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Put feedback into practice
Reply to comments, clarify a point and revise when requested. Discussion stays with your submission.
For your study: Work through uncertainty with your tutor.
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Keep learning between workshops
Return to available Academy chapters, notes and videos, with your progress saved.
For your study: Prepare for your next teaching session.
Make tutorials count
Arrive with a question worth discussing.
Bring a precise question to your tutor through your assignment. Use the case to give the discussion a clear starting point.
Is this the right pattern?
Ask which signs support your interpretation and which challenge it.
Why this dose?
Explore how the presentation influenced a recorded herb or dose choice.
What does the follow-up tell us?
Separate recorded change from what the case leaves uncertain.
Could another approach fit?
Discuss the alternatives you considered and what would distinguish them.
What am I missing?
Identify information you would need before reaching a firmer view.
How should I present this case?
Ask for feedback on a de-identified draft from supervised practice.
Student access
Access through your course.
Arrange access through your institution
Your institution provides student access. Ask your course team about available cases, assignments and Academy courses.
See institution plansAgree how supervision will work
Student uploads remain private drafts. Discuss them with your course team. Tutor discussions use assignments; Clinical guidance requires practitioner access.
Discuss supervised case accessKeep your supervisor involved
CaseWise supports learning, not patient-specific treatment advice. Check AI material and discuss decisions in supervised practice with your supervisor.
How AI supports your learningBeyond your course
Keep learning after graduation.
Keep exploring as a practitioner
Move to practitioner access for clinical enquiries, comparisons and a personal Casebook.
Explore life after graduationKeep your mentoring relationships
Plan ongoing mentorship with your teachers. Clinical guidance requires appropriate access within the same institution.
Discuss ongoing mentoring accessLearn from a growing library
Explore newly shared cases as they become available. In time, your own experience could help another learner.