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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both students and faculty involved in medical education have been asked to remain “flexible and nimble” during these uncertain times. It is remarkable how swiftly medical programs and curriculum committees moved to...
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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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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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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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In our community-based model of clerkships, there is often a disconnect between learning that takes place at clinical sites with community-based...
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Providing meaningful and authentic formative feedback or assessment to students is time-consuming and may feel like busywork to students if it is not...
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As new fourth-year medical students, we have a lot of trepidation about what it will mean to be a doctor in less than a year, to have the weight and...
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Students provide consistently high rankings for Aquifer at the end of each case as reported in our five-star rating feedback data, but how and when...
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When I began my position as Director of Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine Geriatrics and Healthy Aging (GHA) Curriculum...
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Like everyone else, our school needed to develop alternatives to the traditional in-person apprenticeship-model curriculum for our new fourth-year...