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Unique Ways to Improve Key Clinical Skills Using Aquifer
Getting students up to speed in clinic is a common challenge due to the fast pace of the clinical environment, the amount of content to learn,...
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Teaching Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy: Tools for Active Learning
There are a wide variety of challenges facing both osteopathic students and educators today in the clinical setting. Students often have difficulty...
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9 Ways to Teach Pre-clinical Learners with Aquifer Cases
Aquifer cases are a staple assignment in many clinical rotations, but did you know that an increasing number of educators are putting them to work in...
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Flexibility & Innovation: The Power of Aquifer’s Curricular Partner Program
As a non-profit organization, Aquifer is committed to supporting faculty and students through broad access to our trusted content. To that end, we...
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Six Activities to Get Started Integrating Basic Science and Clinical Learning
“There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” (Desmond Tutu) Making a small change in the way you teach can have a significant impact...
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Case Study: Using Aquifer Across the PA Curriculum
Touro University California Physician Assistant Program has been utilizing Aquifer cases since 2019. Originally, the cases were assigned to clinical...
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Flexibility in the Fourth-Year: Extending Virtual Electives
At Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, we are supporting our fourth-year students with flexible online elective...
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4 Ways to Use Aquifer High Value Care Across Your Curriculum
Aquifer High Value Care, a free course available to all faculty and learners, teaches students how their decisions about diagnostic testing, care...
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Using Integrated Illness Scripts: Three Integration Stories
Aquifer Integrated Illness Scripts are new teaching and learning tools designed to link basic science and clinical knowledge and drive cognitive...
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Building on Basic Science: Integrated Illness Scripts as a Foundational Boundary-Crossing Curricular Tool
At Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM), a key framework of our curricular design is the integration of basic science, clinical sciences,...