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Teaching & Integration Strategies (3)

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7 Tools for Flipping Your Classroom with Aquifer

Whether you’re searching for ways to engage students in virtual learning, revamping a stale lecture, or building a new didactic session, flipping the...

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5 Ways to Use Aquifer Radiology

The 19 cases in Aquifer Radiology are designed to meet the needs of a wide range of learners and fit into many teaching modalities. In our recent...

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5 Ways to Use Aquifer Geriatrics

The 27 cases in Aquifer Geriatrics are designed to meet the needs of a wide range of learners and fit into many teaching modalities. In our recent...

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Teaching About Diagnostic Error: Tools for Creating Space in a Crowded Curriculum

Diagnostic errors are a major source of morbidity and mortality in health care, and there is an increasing focus on reducing diagnostic errors in...

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Lessons Learned from COVID: Trends & Teaching Strategies

The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) created widespread disruption for healthcare professional education throughout the world. Healthcare...

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Engaging Gen Z Students Around Principles of Geriatrics

Samantha Lau, MD | Assistant Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai During...

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Virtual Radiology Clerkship to the Rescue

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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Easing the Transition to Clinic: An Approach to Preparing Students

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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Creating Advanced Compare and Contrast Learning with Aquifer Case Modifications

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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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...

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