Rahvan Ortho — Context & Case Prep

By Rahvan · 0.1.0-beta.30

Prepare orthopedic cases with focused recall and rehearsal using your existing Marty deck and review progress.

Add cases → Review this case → Rehearse.

Add-on code: 1699391455 · Desktop Anki 25.09.4–26.09.3. Tested on macOS with genuine Anki 25.09.4, 26.09.2 and 26.09.3. Windows/Linux remain unvalidated. Desktop add-ons do not run in AnkiMobile, AnkiDroid or the AnkiWeb website.

Fixed in beta.30

Case Prep opens even when an old combined booking contains conflicting saved card versions or media. Only the disputed references remain withheld, with a review notice; other cases and dates stay available. Saved plans, custom selections, cards and review history are not rewritten.

Set up once

1. Keep your Marty deck in the current Anki profile. The Marty base deck is not bundled. No replacement deck import or special tags are required.
2. Install code 1699391455 through Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons, or use Check for Updates. Fully quit and reopen Anki. Updated windows show their running version.
3. Open Rahvan Ortho → Setup & tools → Choose Study Deck and select your full Marty parent deck. Renamed decks work through content matching. Choices are separate for each profile; edited or different revisions may have fewer matches.
4. Open Deck coverage & gaps. If companion prompts are missing, use Original companion cards… to check which original text prompts can safely be added. This is optional and never automatic.

Prepare your day

1. Open Rahvan Ortho → Case Prep. Add a case or paste your operating list, choose the date, and confirm every booked component. Pasted bookings open for review in order: attach guides, Update booking, then Save day plan. Revision procedures, named techniques, pediatric differences and optional steps may need separate review.
2. Select a case and choose Focused or More depth. Focused prioritizes up to 20 prompts; More depth includes all eligible core/supporting prompts.
3. Choose Selected case → Review this case, then Rehearse case. All cases → Review all cases reviews the unique day selection, showing shared cards once. The plan advances on a new local calendar day; older dates remain accessible.
4. In the detailed guide, use Study topic for Anatomy, Imaging, Indications, Approach, Danger Structures, Fixation, Post-op and other topics. View gaps and sources explains unavailable references and the remaining learning scope.

Preparation previews do not grade cards or change existing due dates, intervals, suspension or review history. Use normal Anki study for scheduled reviews.

Find a procedure or an unlisted operation

Find a procedure on My cases opens the guide browser. Search a procedure, diagnosis, abbreviation or body region. The optional body map supports navigation; it is not an anatomy reference.

If no exact guide fits, choose Find cards for an unlisted case…. Search your selected Marty deck, inspect the active question/answer and match evidence, then save a local custom case. Case candidates and general prerequisites are counted separately. Zero procedure-specific candidates is explicit even when general anatomy results exist. A large result count or related guide does not establish complete operative coverage. Use Coverage & gaps → Resolve a gap / draft an original prompt for the review-first source and authoring path.

Optional original cards and tags

Setup & tools → Original companion cards… provides 766 original AI-assisted text prompts with source links: 740 case-prep prompts, 16 conference prompts and ten new domain prompts.

Opening the preview adds nothing. It checks CardKeys across the profile and shows the exact destination beneath your selected Marty parent. Add N missing text cards adds only absent keys in one native Undo group. Existing, edited, duplicate or out-of-deck keys are skipped. Existing notes, note types, tags, decks and review history are not overwritten; no cards are copied from other decks or moved. Check coverage again afterward.

Third-party visual blocks are omitted from the text distribution. 65 image-dependent companion cards are not included; they remain separate source/image gaps. The text supplement is bounded study support, not independent clinician approval or a complete operative curriculum.

Tags are optional. Organize study tags offers preview-first procedure/topic subtags, Compact, or priority tags. Changes are confined to Rahvan::CasePrep::v1. Other namespaces and history remain intact. Tags apply to whole notes, so mixed clozes can make precise tags unsafe. Open selected procedure cards → Study topic uses exact card-level links instead.

Fracture conference

Open Rahvan Ortho → Fracture conference, choose a topic and objectives, then Preview selected cards, inspect the summary, and Review N cards. Read the source or practice the case in Rahvan.

For missed Rahvan checks, download Review these gaps in Anki, then Import gaps… in Anki. Inspect suggested topics before confirming. This is a file handoff, not automatic synchronization. Core local recall works offline without a Rahvan account; online sources and films follow the website’s access policy.

The conference crosswalk has 80 partial units: 79 with specific focused-recall references and one with background only. Local availability depends on your deck. Missing references and partial clinical scope are separate. Suggestions and self-checks are not independent assessment of clinical reasoning or mastery.

Privacy, limits and support

Plans and journals stay local. Source searches send topic phrases to Orthobullets; embedded pages contact that publisher. Conference refresh retrieves public Rahvan metadata without uploading your deck. No external AI service or usage telemetry is used. Avoid patient identifiers in case labels.

Updates within the same AnkiWeb identity preserve settings and user files. Older conflicting editions are disabled without deleting their files. Private data is not automatically transferred between different add-on identities; retain backups and choose your deck again.

There are 71 authored procedure guides. Not every operation or variant has a complete guide. Exact content matches establish identity; clinical source/media holds remain in place. Available cards do not guarantee audition readiness or operative competence. No automatic unsuspension or AnkiWeb collection sync occurs. Explicit attachment actions edit fields/tags only when chosen.

For help, check your profile, selected deck and coverage, then About / Help. Report a problem with versions and reproduction steps; do not post private collections.

Independent software by Rahvan, AGPL-3.0-or-later. Corresponding source, tests and the reproducible builder are included under developer. Orthobullets, AO and other source content retain their separate ownership. Original synthesis and mappings have not received independent clinical adjudication.