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Diagnostic errors are a major source of morbidity and mortality in health care, and there is an increasing focus on reducing diagnostic errors in medicine. Diagnostic errors result from a combination of systems and cognitive factors, and focusing on...
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The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) created widespread disruption for healthcare professional education throughout the world. Healthcare...
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Samantha Lau, MD | Assistant Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai During...
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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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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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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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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...