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Aquifer Releases Student Dashboards to Encourage Self-Directed Learning
On Sunday, Aquifer published new student dashboards that help users monitor their progress and organize study materials. These improvements in user...
Aquifer now has eight Virtual Patient Encounters (VPEs) across six clinical disciplines!
Students and educators can find these in the following cases:
- Family Medicine 5
- Geriatrics 15 and 16
- Gynecology 3
- Neurology 11
- Pediatrics 9 and 12
- Psychiatry 5
These VPEs allow students to practice asking questions and adjusting based on responses—thus developing the real-time communication skills they'll need with actual patients.
After the interview, students receive immediate, personalized feedback based on established competencies for effective interviewing. This creates the experience of having an expert preceptor beside each student.
Over 4500 conversations have been completed already, and these encounters have been met with strong positive feedback from students, as evidenced by their ratings and quotes such as:
"I really enjoyed this and found it very helpful. I would love to use this for future practice and development of my interviewing skills."
Learn more about how these were developed and why that process is important in our blog post, entitled "How Educator Expertise Shapes Aquifer's Virtual Patient Encounters."