Post natal depression, mental health assessment.

Single activity Simulation

Primary Care

Stacey Morris Having spoken on the phone with her husband Josh earlier, who was concerned about her behaviour, you have agreed to meet Stacey in her home. She’s a 32 year old mother of two whose youngest was born 4 weeks ago.

The student GP must conduct a Mental Health Assessment with Stacey

To run this sim in JoinXR on your laptop:

Open the folder HEE XR Sims - Primary Care and click on Stacey - Single (PCare).

The first time you open it, It may take a minute or two to download.

Simulation and Learning outcomes

To be able to take a history from a patient presenting with an acute psychotic illness.
To be able to ascertain and evaluate information relating to safeguarding.
To be able to assess suicide and homicide risk.

Activity	Overview
Briefing	Before starting the XR simulation, the learner must consent to taking part via this online form. The learner will then receive a briefing and be instructed to speak with Stacey. The student GP will be given access to the Medical History for the patient.	Classroom 5 mins
Mental Health Examination of Stacey	The student GP should conduct a mental health examination of Stacey. The student GP should evaluate risks and note that Stacey is having some signs of psychosis, and had self-harm ideations that are rather well developed.	XR Sim Patient’s home 10 mins
Debrief	The student GP, instructor (and possibly other students) will watch a recording of the simulation and discuss in detail the student GP’s technique and clinical reasoning	Classroom 15 mins
Evaluation	At the end of the training simulation, the learner is invited to complete an evaluation form.

Below are the Medical records for Stacey. We recommend you share them with your student before starting the sim. They are avavailable within the sim, however it is not a great use of ‘in headset’ time:

A full flow of all the activities within the sim, along with the exact messaging the student GP will receive can be downloaded here [can we export from Github to a repo we can access]