Leslie-Falls

Clinical Learning, Reimagined.

AT THE INTERSECTION OF EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY & COLLABORATION

We are health professions educators committed to real solutions. This is our work. This is our passion. I am glad you are here to reimagine it with me.

~ Leslie Fall, MD |  Aquifer Founder & CEO
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Clinical Learning, Reimagined - The Podcast

This is a podcast for health professions educators who believe that clinical learning is a worthy passion — and worth reimagining.

Each episode, I sit down with a visionary educator, researcher, or innovator who is doing exactly that: seeing a need and finding the courage to fill it — asking hard questions, testing bold ideas, and building something better in the middle of some of the most disruptive times our field has ever seen.

These are not theoretical conversations. They are real-world, boots-on-the-ground dialogues with people who are closest to the work — and who, in my experience, are best positioned to lead the way forward. Expect honest debate, diverse viewpoints, and voices from across and beyond the academy.

Think of it as an invitation to a conversation that is already shaping the future of health professions education, whether we are paying attention or not.
Reimagining Clinical Education in a Digital World
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Reimagining Clinical Education in a Digital World
Clinical Learning, Reimagined - the Podcast
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Blog Series:
The Future of Clinical Learning

There is a quiet reckoning underway in health professions education. You can hear it in our hospital and clinic hallways, in our clerkship and program director listservs, and in the desperate frustration clearly evident during Q&A sessions at educator conferences—by faculty who went into academic medicine for the love of teaching and find themselves doing everything but that. It has been building for a long time. We know our field is not moving in the right direction.

This blog is my attempt to seed our collective imagination.

Student Doctor with Tablet
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Our Golden Triangle Is Wearing Thin

Leslie Fall, MD: Jul 27, 2026

I came off my first clinical rotation feeling defeated. It had not been a good...

Aquifer's Clinical Education Playbook

Robust clinical education requires intentional variability. Learning to manage different patient populations, different preceptors, different practice settings, and different clinical workflows is a critical competency in healthcare training.

But in today’s educational environment, ensuring that variability does not supplant foundational clinical learning has become increasingly difficult. Educators remain responsible for ensuring learners receive consistent and comparable opportunities to develop core knowledge, clinical reasoning skills, and professional readiness.

This playbook provides a practical curriculum strategy framework for curriculum leaders, clerkship directors, and clinical education teams working to address that challenge to ensure that both consistency and variability support clinical learning effectively.

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