Rosemarie Atwood

Connect with Aquifer at COMSEP 2021

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Aquifer will be attending the COMSEP Annual Meeting from April 6 – 9, 2021, taking place virtually, to share updates on our developing projects and help faculty and staff make the most of their subscriptions.

If you are attending the meeting, we hope to see you at:

Workshop: Coaching For the Development of Master Adaptive Learners

Friday, April 9 from 11:45am – 1:15pm EDT

Workshop Details

Coaching For the Development of Master Adaptive Learners

Presenters: Melissa Held, MD; Michael Dell, MD; Aditee Narayan, MD; Sherilyn Smith, MD

The pace of the development of new biomedical knowledge and of changes in healthcare systems requires physicians and medical students to develop the ability to seamlessly adapt new information and concepts into their existing mental frameworks in order to become experts. Never has this dynamic been more in evidence than during the COVID-19 pandemic, in which new knowledge, skills, and processes of care have arisen at a furious rate. In order to develop into what the American Medical Association has termed Master Adaptive Learners, medical students, typically highly-motivated learners, will benefit from coaching from their clinical teachers to facilitate their self-regulated learning and help them develop the habits of mind required for making clinical decisions in modern practice.

In this workshop, we will present a schemata of the Master Adaptive Learner process and introduce novel tools to aid family physician faculty as they coach their students towards their development of cognitive mastery. The workshop will combine didactic presentation and practical application of the new coaching tools so that attendees will come away with useful skills to bring back to their home institutions. The presenters will encourage active discussion and group participation so as to benefit from the shared experience in the room in developing best practices for making use of the novel cognitive coaching framework and tools.

Learning Objectives:

  • On completion of this session the participants should be able to describe the elements of Master Adaptive Learning Schemata and how they apply to clinical learning.
  • On completion of this session the participants should be able to differentiate between coaching and advising or teaching.
  • On completion of this session the participants should be able to apply coaching techniques to facilitate learners creating personalized plans for mastery learning using real world examples of formative assessment information.
  • On completion of this session the participants should be able to develop local curricula to teach these principles to community faculty.

Programs & Partners Session

Wednesday, April 7 from 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Connect directly with your COMSEP colleague members of the Aquifer Pediatrics Course Board.  Bring your questions, ask for integration and teaching advice, and get the latest updates on:

Individual Training or Q&A

If you aren’t able to make the Programs & Partners session but would like to catch up to discuss our developing projects or get answers to your questions, please contact Cate Hancock, Aquifer RelationshipManager to schedule a time to meet or talk by phone.

We look forward to seeing you!

More Recommended Presentations

We recommend attending the following presentations by Aquifer Educators Consortium members:

Finding Success in Failure: Best Practices for Remediation of Students in Difficulty

Friday, April 9 from 1:45 – 3:15pm EDT

Presenters: Anton Alerte, MD; Mary Brown, MD, MS; Antonette Spoto-Cannons, MD; Jennifer Koestler, MD; Melissa Held, MD; Mariann Kelley, MD; Joanne Crowley, MD; Melanie Rudnick, MD; Amy Fleming, MD, MHPE; Patricia Joyce, MD

This workshop involves collaboration among faculty from five different universities to address the subject of medical student remediation. Student success may be challenged due to a number of factors including knowledge deficits, gaps in reasoning, failure to perform in a team setting, and/or professionalism lapses.

Learning Objectives:

This workshop will provide faculty with a framework for helping the student who has failed or is failing.

Participants will:

  • List tools useful for early identification and categorization of the student with difficulty
  • Identify best practices in remediation
  • Identify strategies to create individualized remediation plans
  • Identify obstacles, including implicit biases, which may interfere with remediation plans

Webinar: Best Practices for Medical Education

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In this interactive webinar session we explored best practices for integrating Aquifer into Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Education. This session is designed for faculty and administrators who are new to Aquifer and those looking to improve how they are using the cases.

This free webinar was be led by:

Sherilyn-Smith-MD

Sherilyn Smith, MD

Aquifer Chief Academic Officer
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine

Leslie H. Fall, MD

Aquifer Chief Executive Officer
Adjunct Professor at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Erik Langenau, DO, MS

Associate Professor
Chief Academic Technology Officer – Department of Professional Development and Online Learning
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Mandi Sehgal, MD

Aquifer Geriatrics Teaching & Learning Lead
Associate Professor
Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

Barbara Capozzi, DO

Clinical Dean
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York

Karen McDonough, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine

The learning objectives for this webinar included:

  • Learn the pedagogical design of Aquifer cases to support clinical reasoning development
  • Learn best practices for integrating Aquifer in allopathic and osteopathic medical education.
  • Breakout sessions to learn tips and tricks for using Aquifer cases in:
    • Osteopathic clinical education
    • Allopathic clinical education
    • Preclinical education
  • Question and answer session
Webinar Recording Available

Thank you to the 86+ medical educators who joined us on May 27, 2020, at 4 PM for our webinar, Best Practices for Integrating Aquifer in Medical Education. 

Schedule a Peer Consultation

Educator-to-educator support for faculty

Did you miss the webinar? Or do you still have questions? Schedule a personalized, academic-focused session with an experienced medical educator who actively uses Aquifer in a variety of learning environments with different levels of learners.

Learn More and Schedule a Consult

Webinar: Best Practices with Learner Level Access

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Best Practices for Integrating Aquifer with Learner Level Access

May 20, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

This webinar covered best practices for integrating Aquifer into the curriculum for programs with learner-level access, the difference between Aquifer individual and institutional subscriptions, and will offer breakouts with tips specific for Nurse Practitioner education programs, graduate and undergraduate medical schools as well as other health professions.

The webinar was led by:
  • Sherilyn Smith, MD
    Aquifer Chief Academic Officer
    Professor of PediatricsUniversity of Washington School of Medicine

  • Joyce Cappiello, PhD
    Associate Professor of Nursing
    University of New Hampshire

  • Donna Pelletier, DNP
    Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing
    University of New Hampshire

  • Linda Eastham, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC
    Assistant Professor of Nursing
    University of Virginia

Webinar Recordings & Slides Available

Schedule a Peer Consultation

Educator-to-educator support for faculty

Did you miss the webinar? Or do you still have questions? Schedule a personalized, academic-focused session with an experienced medical educator who actively uses Aquifer in a variety of learning environments with different levels of learners.

LEARN MORE & SCHEDULE A CONSULT

Aquifer Launches Student Advisory Group

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Aquifer is excited to announce the launch of our Student Advisory Group. This newly formed board of medical and health professions students will provide essential feedback on Aquifer’s new learning tools.

Helping Build the Best Possible Tools for Clinical Learning

Aquifer is in the process of developing new assessments, Integrated Illness Scripts, cases, and other learning tools. Student voices and ideas are critical to ensure that our solutions provide the most value to students.

Student Advisory Group members are invited to preview and provide honest, in-depth feedback on Aquifer’s new developing learning tools, designed to be used in medical and health professions programs across the country. Feedback from this group will be used to optimize the technology and content in our tools, inform communications, and develop training resources.

After a competitive selection process, we are pleased to welcome a strong group of students from institutions around the country:

  • Julie Chew, United States University Nurse Practitioner Program
  • Parissa Ferguson, Bryant University Physician Assistant Program
  • Timothy Fisher, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University 
  • Philip Jurasinski, Des Moines University
  • Priya Kantesaria, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
  • Hope Knochenhauer, Duke University School of Medicine 
  • Andres Lopez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 
  • Brienna Milleson, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  • Wafa Nabi, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
  • Evgeniya Rakitina, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
  • Yana Salei, Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine 
  • Sapna Syal, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Georgia Vasilakis, West Virginia University School of Medicine

The Student Advisory Group will work closely with the medical educators of the Aquifer Student Engagement Group, a working group of the Aquifer Educators Consortium, along with the teams developing Aquifer’s new learning tools. The Aquifer Student Engagement Group is led by Katherine Chretien, MD (Associate Dean for Student Affairs; George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences) and Jennifer Bierman, MD (Clerkship Director, Education Centered Medical Home; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine).

Aquifer—a unique non-profit organization—makes a big impact on medical and health professions education. Used in 95% of U.S. allopathic medical schools, 66% of U.S. osteopathic programs, and a growing number of physician assistant, and nurse practitioner programs—with over 13 million virtual patient cases completed since our founding in 2006—Aquifer is a leader in clinical learning.

2019 COMSEP Grant Awards Supported by Aquifer

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Aquifer is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2019 COMSEP (Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics) Grant Program awards. The COMSEP Grant Program is funded in part by an annual educational grant from Aquifer to support advancing academic research in medical education.

As a non-profit organization, Aquifer is proud to continue funding this important work through COMSEP which aligns directly with our mission of advancing healthcare education through collaborative development and research into innovative, high-impact virtual teaching and learning methods. The COMSEP Grant Program promotes and supports innovative educational scholarship that is designed, implemented, and evaluated by COMSEP members.

Aquifer joins COMSEP in congratulating the 2019 COMSEP Grant Program recipients on the advancement of their research:

Nathan Gollehon, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center

The Effect of CMS Guidelines on the Development of Medical Student Documentation Skills

This project focuses on assessing the impact of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule change that allows student medical notes to be used by their preceptors for billing. Surveys and focus groups have been conducted to understand the impact of this change on learning and perceptions and experiences with student documentation. Investigators have submitted abstracts to present this work at the 2020 COMSEP Annual Meeting, with plans underway for publication submissions.

Molly Rideout, MD, University of Vermont Medical Center

The Effect of Pediatric Boot Camps on Performance in Early Internship

This study works to clarify whether pediatric-specific boot camp improves intern performance during the initial months of pediatric internships, and whether any difference persists at six months. Results will include faculty evaluations on interns from residency programs (17 are enrolled to date). Preliminary results will be presented at the COMSEP Annual Meeting in March 2020. This project is a joint project between COMSEP and APPD LEARN.

Aquifer (formerly MedU) has partnered with COMSEP since the 2006 launch of Aquifer Pediatrics (formerly CLIPP), which delivers on the learning objectives of the COMSEP curriculum. 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 2019, Aquifer awarded grants totaling $65,000 a year to our national partner organizations:

Aquifer looks forward to the results of the 2019 COMSEP Grant Program projects and continuing to work 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 13 million virtual cases have been completed by more than 300,000 students.

Call for Participation: Aquifer Osteopathic Task Force

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Make an Impact: Work with Aquifer to Advance Medical Education

Aquifer—a unique non-profit organization dedicated to advancing healthcare education—is excited to announce the creation of an Osteopathic Task Force. This group will bring the voice, interests, and experiences of osteopathic medical educators to Aquifer, and work to develop faculty development materials and teaching tools for osteopathic educators using Aquifer courses.

This is an exciting opportunity to participate in a scholarly project on a national level. With over 12 million virtual patient cases completed since our founding in 2006, Aquifer is the leader in developing clinical teaching and learning tools.

Our Reach

Working with Aquifer, your work will make a big impact on osteopathic medical education. Currently, Aquifer is used by:

  • 66% of osteopathic medical schools—and 95% of US allopathic medical schools, and a growing number of health professions education programs.
  • 14,000 students in osteopathic medical schools.

Aquifer Osteopathic Task Force Details

Why: To further develop Aquifer’s teaching and learning resources as a valuable tool for osteopathic medical educators.

Who: This is an open invitation to all osteopathic educators who use Aquifer courses. The group will be supported by Aquifer staff and led by:

  • Erik Langenau, DO, MS, FAAP, FACOP
    Chief Academic Technology Officer, Dept of Professional Development and Online Learning
    Pediatrician, Dept of Family Medicine
    Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Barbara Capozzi, DO, CNS
    Clinical Dean
    Clinical Education Department
    Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine- Harlem
  • Alexander Chessman, MD
    Aquifer Academic Director for Curriculum
    Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

What: The Aquifer Osteopathic Task Force will:

  • Provide input to Aquifer leadership regarding  the priorities and unique needs of osteopathic programs
  • Develop and review faculty materials to support the use of Aquifer cases in the osteopathic curriculum

When: The Task Force will work actively for approximately 6 months, with work starting in early Fall of 2019. Work will include:

  • Monthly video conference calls
  • Working offline on prioritized projects, with work reviewed by the group on monthly calls.

If you are interested in joining or learning more about the Osteopathic Task Force, please let us know by contacting Leah Romano, Aquifer Business Development Manager.

We look forward to working with you to better serve the needs of osteopathic educators and students.

Thank You,

Erik Langenau, DO, MS, FAAP, FACOP
Chief Academic Technology Officer, Dept of Professional Development and Online Learning
Pediatrician, Dept of Family Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Barbara Capozzi, DO, CNS
Clinical Dean
Clinical Education Department
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine- Harlem

Alexander Chessman, MD
Aquifer Academic Director for Curriculum
Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

Leslie Fall, MD
Aquifer Executive Director & Chief Academic Officer