Aquifer Blog

Make the most of Aquifer cases and teaching tools.

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What Students are Saying: Social Determinants of Health Cases

Aquifer’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) cases focus on helping students improve health outcomes and equity for patients through realistic patient interactions, encouraging students to reflect on their own implicit biases and cultural...

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Improving Student Confidence and Performance with an Engaging Hybrid Clerkship

At Windsor University School of Medicine, we have adopted pieces of our COVID-19 learning design and resources to create a long-term hybrid rotation...

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Six Activities to Get Started Integrating Basic Science and Clinical Learning

“There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” (Desmond Tutu) Making a small change in the way you teach can have a significant impact...

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Case Study: Using Aquifer Across the PA Curriculum

Touro University California Physician Assistant Program has been utilizing Aquifer cases since 2019. Originally, the cases were assigned to clinical...

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Flexibility in the Fourth-Year: Extending Virtual Electives

At Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, we are supporting our fourth-year students with flexible online elective...

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4 Ways to Use Aquifer High Value Care Across Your Curriculum

Aquifer High Value Care, a free course available to all faculty and learners, teaches students how their decisions about diagnostic testing, care...

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Using Integrated Illness Scripts: Three Integration Stories

Aquifer Integrated Illness Scripts are new teaching and learning tools designed to link basic science and clinical knowledge and drive cognitive...

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Remediation Part 2: Success Stories & Structures

Whether you’re looking for materials to help learners develop clinical reasoning skills, new ways to structure coaching sessions, or ideas to...

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Remediation Part 1: Aquifer Tools & Strategies

With 240+ cases covering five disciplines and a range of skills and interdisciplinary topics, Aquifer is a powerful resource for remediating...

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Building on Basic Science: Integrated Illness Scripts as a Foundational Boundary-Crossing Curricular Tool

At Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM), a key framework of our curricular design is the integration of basic science, clinical sciences,...

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