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Just-in-time Teaching: Connecting Didactics with Clinical Learning for Community Faculty

In our community-based model of clerkships, there is often a disconnect between learning that takes place at clinical sites with community-based preceptors, and the information from cases or didactic lectures our core faculty present to students on...

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Providing Formative Feedback Via Summary Statements

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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Filling a Gap: Creating an Elective on Tough Conversations & End of Life Care

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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Student Perspectives: Practical Tips for Assigning Cases

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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Making Connections Throughout the Curriculum

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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Returning to Real Patients: Preparing with a Virtual Rotation

Like everyone else, our school needed to develop alternatives to the traditional in-person apprenticeship-model curriculum for our new fourth-year...

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Virtual Peer Teaching with Aquifer

Jeanne Cawse Lucas, MD; Associate Professor, Theodore J. Phillips Endowed Professorship in Family Medicine | University of Washington School of...

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Hospital Systems Learning: A Virtual Case-based Framework

All students want to learn. But for students in clinical settings, there is an equally important goal: they want to be helpful. They want to have a...

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Adapting to a Shortened Virtual Clerkship

Like many others, Boston University moved to a shortened virtual-only clerkship (packed with the full knowledge of our regular in-person 6-week...

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Building a Core Clinical Virtual Integrated Curriculum

Nadia Ismail, MD, MPH, M.Ed | Associate Dean of Curriculum | Baylor College of Medicine Clerkship: Integrated curriculum across all core clerkships...

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