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5 Ways to Use Aquifer Geriatrics

The 27 cases in Aquifer Geriatrics are designed to meet the needs of a wide range of learners and fit into many teaching modalities. In our recent webinar, Best Practices for Using Aquifer Geriatrics Across the Curriculum, top geriatrics educators...

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Teaching About Diagnostic Error: Tools for Creating Space in a Crowded Curriculum

Diagnostic errors are a major source of morbidity and mortality in health care, and there is an increasing focus on reducing diagnostic errors in...

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Lessons Learned from COVID: Trends & Teaching Strategies

The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) created widespread disruption for healthcare professional education throughout the world. Healthcare...

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Engaging Gen Z Students Around Principles of Geriatrics

Samantha Lau, MD | Assistant Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai During...

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Covering ARC-PA Standards & Supporting SCPEs with Aquifer Courses

We all know that every student will have a slightly different experience in each of their supervised clinical practice experiences (SCPEs), dependent...

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Virtual Radiology Clerkship to the Rescue

The COVID epidemic of spring 2020 swept through hospital-based medical student education like a tsunami. Fears of disease exposure, lack PPE, and the...

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Student Experience: Bridging the Gap Between Coursework and Patient Care

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both students and faculty involved in medical education have been asked to remain “flexible and nimble” during these...

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Easing the Transition to Clinic: An Approach to Preparing Students

One of the most challenging transitions that medical students make is from the pre-clinical years to the clinical/clerkship years. Students must make...

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Using Aquifer Cases Effectively: Perspective of a Third-Year Medical Student

Having just completed my third year of medical school at Case Western Reserve University, I can confidently say that Aquifer has been highly useful...

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Creating Advanced Compare and Contrast Learning with Aquifer Case Modifications

Patient care learning was suspended in the spring of 2020 to reduce the spread of the novel SARS-CoV2 pandemic. In the Longitudinal Integrated...

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