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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 upon specific caseload, seasonal variations, and location. At Thomas Jefferson University Physician...
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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...
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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...