Aquifer Sciences

The goal of the Aquifer Sciences Initiative is to provide evidence-based teaching and learning resources that promote:

1. Effective cognitive integration of the basic and clinical sciences by clinical learners, ensuring excellence in clinical decision making that places patient care, quality, value and safety at a premium.
   
   
2. Productive and collaborative teaching by basic and clinical science faculty to ensure learner’s foundational basic science knowledge is effectively organized for clinical practice and life-long learning.

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The Aquifer Sciences curriculum is the first nationally-developed and publicly available curriculum that comprehensively outlines the core basic sciences concepts that must be understood and mastered by health professions learners in order to provide safe, routine patient care. The database covers:

• 11 Basic science disciplines
• 11 Clinical disciplines
• 106 Core concepts
• 785 Learning objectives
• 245 Common conditions
• 5 Clinical decisions
• 15 Systems

Building on the traditional illness script format, Integrated Illness Scripts embed basic science core concepts as causal and explanatory mechanisms associated with clinical features. Scripts provide a mental model that helps students make connections and form a deeper understanding to make better, safer clinical decisions.