The Complete Doctor AcademyCASC VAULT
The Complete Doctor Academy

The CASC Vault

The Anatomy Project

Fifteen task families make up the MRCPsych CASC. This is all fifteen, taken apart scenario by scenario — the moves, the traps, the exact words to say, and what to do when the station changes shape under you.

Stop memorising stations. Learn the anatomy underneath them.

Read it on the page. Listen to it on the way to work.

Dr Chinonso S. Ezeanyika · cascvault.co.uk

What this is

Not a question bank. An anatomy.

Most CASC revision gives you stations. This gives you the skeleton underneath them. The scenarios this exam keeps returning to were sorted, ranked by how often they come up, and grouped into the Fifteen Families, which are task types, not diagnoses. What the card asks you to do at the door decides everything that follows.

Each family page gives you the spine that never changes, the commonest scenarios in full, the exact words to say, the trap that catches candidates, and how each scenario varies. Every family also has a listening version — the same material, written to be read aloud, so you can revise while driving, walking or cooking.

15Task families
74Scenarios taken apart
7Moves that never change
104Audio tracks
15Listening versions
1System to learn

How it works

Read it, then listen to it

Every family has a full illustrated page and a set of narrated tracks. Read the page once slowly. Then put the audio on and listen to the same family two or three times while driving, walking or cooking. The page teaches it; the audio makes it automatic.

Terms of use This material is for personal revision only. Please do not forward, upload, resell or share it in group chats. Original teaching material. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reproducing any material of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The library

All fifteen families are written

All fifteen families are now written. Between them they account for the great majority of what a CASC candidate is ever asked to do — each one taken apart scenario by scenario, with a listening version of every page.

01GATHER

Mental State Examination

Describe what you see. Don't diagnose.
12 scenarios · the six cover 73%
Open family 01
02GATHER

Elicit a Symptom Cluster

The card names it. You complete it.
11 scenarios · the six cover 71%
Open family 02
03GATHER

History to Diagnosis

Let the history name the illness.
28 scenarios · the six cover 41%
Open family 03
04GATHER

Collateral History

The informant holds the baseline.
8 scenarios · the six cover 90%
Open family 04
05WEIGH

Risk and Dangerousness

Ask the frightening question plainly.
12 scenarios · the six cover 80%
Open family 05
06WEIGH

Safety Plan

Build it with them, not for them.
1 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 06
07WEIGH

Capacity

One decision. Four tests. One word.
7 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 07
08EXPLAIN

Psychotherapy Suitability

Curiosity and capacity. Not just symptoms.
1 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 08
09EXPLAIN

Explain a Psychological Therapy

What actually happens in the room.
8 scenarios · the six cover 92%
Open family 09
10EXPLAIN

Explain a Diagnosis

Name it. Then stop talking.
6 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 10
11EXPLAIN

Explain a Drug or Physical Treatment

Say the risk first. Then say what we do about it.
11 scenarios · the six cover 78%
Open family 11
12ACT

Management Plan

Nine boxes, and one question first.
9 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 12
13ACT

De-escalation

Validate before you explain.
1 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 13
14ACT

Acute Emergency

Recognise. Stop. Treat. Escalate.
1 scenarios · the six cover 100%
Open family 14
15ACT

Examination & Colleague Discussion

The one you can practise until it's automatic.
14 scenarios · the six cover 77%
Open family 15

Access

Seven days, for candidates sitting in September.

Anyone may register, and the vault is free. The seven days are for doctors who are actually sitting this diet — so show me you are, and I will open it.

1Register in your real name. Name, email, password. Nothing opens yet. Your name is checked, so use the one on your College record. You will get an email the moment you register.
2Send your evidence that you are sitting in September. The confirmation from the Royal College showing your date. Upload it on the page you land on after signing in, or send it to completedoctor@gmail.com. This is the only thing I ask for, and it is what the seven days are for.
3I approve you — seven days from that moment. Usually within a day. You will get a second email the moment you are approved, carrying everything you need.
4Two courses open, five more behind codes. The Anatomy Project and the MoSCoW Project open as soon as you sign in. The approval email carries your codes for the CASC Dictionary, the CASC Gym, Dr Nonso’s Flashcard Mastery, the Seven Mocks and the Final Revision Vault.
5After seven days the codes change. Access stops on its own. Nothing renews automatically, no card is stored, and you are never charged without asking for it.

Please register in your real name. It appears on your account, it is checked before you are approved, and access is personal to you.