Aquifer Blog

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Implementing Calibrate Formative Assessment: Advice from an Early Adopter

In health professions education, identifying gaps in clinical reasoning early is critical to ensuring clinical competence. However, with packed curricula, finding time for robust assessment is challenging, and many assessments don’t align well with...

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From Surviving to Thriving: How Coaching for Learning Cultivates Adaptive Expertise

The pace of change in health care is accelerating, with medical knowledge doubling every 73 days. This rapid change can overwhelm clinicians and...

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Using Integrated Illness Scripts: Framing Case-Based Learning Cases

At Geisinger Commonwealth Medical School, our new Total Health curriculum is designed to facilitate the integration of basic science, clinical...

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Unique Ways to Improve Key Clinical Skills Using Aquifer

Getting students up to speed in clinic is a common challenge due to the fast pace of the clinical environment, the amount of content to learn,...

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Meeting COCA Standards with Aquifer

Meeting the requirements for continuous accreditation of the educational program is a core focus for osteopathic medical schools. Currently serving...

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Meeting ARC-PA Standards with Aquifer

The Killer B’s Meeting the requirements for accreditation is an ongoing challenge for physician assistant programs. The program curriculum must...

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Teaching Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy: Tools for Active Learning

There are a wide variety of challenges facing both osteopathic students and educators today in the clinical setting. Students often have difficulty...

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9 Ways to Teach Pre-clinical Learners with Aquifer Cases

Aquifer cases are a staple assignment in many clinical rotations, but did you know that an increasing number of educators are putting them to work in...

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Meeting LCME Standards with Aquifer

Meeting the requirements for continuous accreditation of the educational program is a core focus for medical schools. Currently serving 96% of US...

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Flexibility & Innovation: The Power of Aquifer’s Curricular Partner Program

As a non-profit organization, Aquifer is committed to supporting faculty and students through broad access to our trusted content. To that end, we...

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