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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...
Teaching & Integration Strategies (4)
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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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Strategies for Flipping the Classroom with Aquifer
Editor’s Notes: Aquifer cases can form the basis for a huge variety of classroom sessions that can be easily adapted for virtual learning via Zoom,...
The Pre-Clinical Pace: Using Cases for Early Learners
If you want to use Aquifer cases as a clinical correlate in basic sciences classes just assign one case per week (e.g. pediatric case about cystic...
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A High-Value Care Course in the Era of COVID-19
Glenn Moulder, MD | Assistant Professor | University of Virginia School of Medicine It may seem unusual to design and implement a medical student...