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 OB/GYN. As part of this effort, Aquifer is recruiting case authors who will develop patient cases focused on clinical reasoning in OB/GYN.
With 15 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 December 2023 through February 2024. 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 OB/GYN.
- 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 December 2023 through February 2024. Dates of actual writing during these 3-4 months 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 Jenne Patterson, Aquifer’s Strategic Assistant to the Chief Curriculum Officer, at jenne.patterson@aquifer.org to answer your questions.
