2019 AAIM Innovation Grant Recipients Named - Aquifer

Aquifer is pleased to congratulate the eight recipients of the 2019 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Innovation Grants, supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Aquifer. The AAIM Innovation Grant program seeks inventive approaches to addressing existing or emerging problems with impacts across the academic Internal Medicine community. As a non-profit organization, Aquifer is proud to continue funding this important work through AAIM which aligns directly with our mission of advancing healthcare education through collaborative development and research into innovative, high-impact virtual teaching and learning methods.

Aquifer joins AAIM commending the outstanding efforts of the grant finalists and congratulating the 2019 Innovation Grant recipients:

• Andrew J. Varney, MD; Southern Illinois University
  Quality improvement project to create a safer workplace for residents and staff
• Nicole Grogan, MD; University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
  Framework to improve the quality of written and verbal feedback in UME and GME
• Pramil Cheriyath, MD, MS, FACP; Ocean Medical Center
  Improving emotional intelligence among internal medicine residents using evidence -based medicine workshop
• Catherine Gao, MD; Yale New Haven Hospital
  Automated scheduling tool to improve scheduling quality and resident satisfaction
• Jessica Murphy, MD, MS; Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  Developing residents’ critical consciousness through social determinants of health curriculum
• Abby Spencer, MD, MS, FACP; Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Key steps to rise for women trainees in leadership development
• Julia Close, MD; University of Florida
  Integrated implicit bias curriculum for house staff addressing health care disparities in patients with sickle cell disease
• Gretchen Diemer, MD; Thomas Jefferson University
  Creation of a self-contained pedagogical tool for the problem of opiate addiction

Aquifer (formerly MedU) has partnered with AAIM since the 2007 launch of Aquifer Internal Medicine (formerly SIMPLE), which delivers on the learning objectives of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine’s (CDIM) General Internal Medicine Core Medicine clerkship curriculum. Aquifer’s High Value Care and Diagnostic Excellence courses were both developed with funding from AAIM Innovation Grant awards.

Aquifer’s grant program supports academic advancement through a series of partnerships with key national educator organizations. Working with our partners ensures that our grant dollars support initiatives that advance our mission and serve the needs of educators and students around the country. In 2018, Aquifer awarded grants totaling more than $65,000 a year to the following organizations:

• Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM)
• Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP)
• Association of University Radiologists (AUR)
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)
• International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE)

Aquifer looks forward to the results of the 2019 AAIM Innovation Grant funded projects and working with our partners to drive innovation in healthcare education.

Aquifer is a mission-driven non-profit organization dedicated to delivering the best healthcare education through collaborative development and research into innovative, high-impact virtual teaching and learning methods. Aquifer develops trusted, award-winning, virtual case-based courses derived from national healthcare curricula. Since Aquifer’s founding in 2006, over 12 million virtual cases have been completed by more than 300,000 students.