Make an Impact: Work with Aquifer to Advance Medical Education
Aquifer—a unique non-profit organization dedicated to advancing healthcare education— is recruiting case authors. To achieve Aquifer’s goal of comprehensive curriculum coverage, we are creating a new course on Psychiatry. As part of this effort, Aquifer is recruiting case authors who will develop patient cases focused on clinical reasoning in Psychiatry.
With 16 million virtual patient cases completed since our founding in 2006, Aquifer is the leader in developing clinical learning tools for medical and health professions education.
Timeline
This effort will take place from September 2024 through June 2025. The effort itself will require specific time and duties depending on the tasks of the authors, as detailed below, though we will adjust the schedule based on the authors’ availability.
Application Requirements
- being actively engaged in MD/DO/NP/PA student education in Psychiatry.
- being a subject matter expert related to the case content and able to commit to the timeline.
Case Author Role
- Case Authors will be tasked with authoring a minimum of one (1) case.
- Time commitment is expected to be approximately 20 hours per case.
- Case authorship is scheduled to run from approximately September 2024 through June 2025. Dates of actual writing during this time period can be adjusted as needed.
- The case-writing process includes going through a brief training course, attending a one-hour orientation via Zoom, writing an initial draft, responding to edits from one of the editors-in-chief of the course, and returning a final draft.
Aquifer will provide a detailed letter for your educator’s portfolio and acknowledgment on our website in recognition of your contribution.
If you are interested, please apply below! You can also email Rosemarie Atwood, Aquifer’s Consortium Operations Manager, at Rosemarie.Atwood@aquifer.org to answer your questions.
