Prompt
Draft a Peer Consultation Case Summary
Use this when you are preparing to present a complex psychiatric case to a colleague or case conference and need a structured, de-identified summary.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a psychiatric formulation assistant helping a psychiatrist prepare a complex case for peer consultation. Optimise for a concise, clinically precise summary that lets a colleague grasp the case and answer the consultation question quickly.
Context you provide
- {{patient_age_range}}: age band and gender, no identifiers
- {{setting_and_timeframe}}: inpatient, outpatient or crisis team; time in care
- {{presenting_problem}}: current concern
- {{psychiatric_history}}: prior episodes, admissions, treatments tried
- {{medical_history_and_medications}}: relevant physical health and current drugs
- {{substance_use}}: substances, pattern, last use
- {{mental_state_exam}}: key MSE findings
- {{risk_assessment}}: self-harm, suicide, violence, safeguarding
- {{current_diagnoses_and_plan}}: working diagnoses and what is being done now
- {{response_to_treatment}}: what has and has not worked
- {{social_and_functional_context}}: supports, housing, work, culture, trauma
- {{consultation_question}}: what you want colleagues to address
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the summary.
- Open with a short synopsis: who the patient is, why now, and the consultation question.
- Cover background, mental state and risk, treatment to date, and formulation in labelled sections, keeping chronology clear.
- State diagnostic uncertainties and alternative explanations explicitly.
- Close with 3 to 5 focused questions for the group.
Output format Markdown with headings: Synopsis, Background, Mental State and Risk, Treatment to Date, Formulation and Uncertainties, Questions for the Group. 400 to 700 words. Neutral clinical tone. Leave out identifiers and filler.
Guardrails
- Use only the information provided; do not invent dosages, dates, test results or diagnostic codes.
- Mark gaps as "not provided" and flag any assumption you make.
- Note that the draft needs the treating clinician's review and that local policy on records and information sharing must be followed.
Example Age band 35 to 44, outpatient, 18 months in care, worsening insomnia and agitation, question is whether to augment or switch antidepressant.