Beyond Memorization: Leading with the “Why” to Improve Clinical Reasoning

Explore how focusing on the “why” behind clinical conditions links basic science and clinical knowledge for more efficient learning. Hear how Case Western uses Integrated Illness Scripts throughout their didactic curriculum to go beyond memorization to deeper conceptual understanding. Find out how Aquifer’s Integrated Illness Scripts foster clinical reasoning skills.

Presenters:

  • Jensen Lewis, MSPAS-PAC; Case Western Reserve University
  • Leah Sheridan, PhD, Ohio University Heritage School of Osteopathic Medicine

Using Aquifer Cases to Meet ARC-PA Accreditation Standards

Aquifer’s virtual patient cases are helping faculty meet ARC-PA standards in a variety of ways. Hear how Aquifer cases were used in building a hybrid rotation at DeSales University and integrated across the curriculum to cover a range of requirements at Touro University California.

Presenters:

  • Darcie Larimore-Arenas, MSPAS, MPH, PA-C; Touro University, California
  • Kathleen Ehrhardt, MMS, PA-C; DeSales University

Best Practices for Teaching About Diagnostic Excellence

Join Dr. Andrew Olson, Senior Director of the Aquifer Diagnostic Excellence Consortium, as he discusses Aquifer’s freely-available Diagnostic Excellence cases and educator resources and shares practical tips and strategies to teach about diagnostic excellence across your curriculum.

Topics will include:

  • Overview of the Aquifer Diagnostic Excellence Course
  • Review of ready-made ancillary educator resources
  • Examples of how the Aquifer cases are used for teaching diagnostic excellence

This session is open to anyone, and is ideal for educators looking to expand their coverage of diagnostic excellence across the span of medical, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner training.

Diagnostic Excellence Webinar Table of Contents

  • 2:28 – About Aquifer
  • 3:15 – Why is Diagnostic Excellence important?
  • 6:20 – Overview of Diagnostic Excellence course
  • 6:50 – Case examples
  • 20:10 – Flipped Classroom activities
  • 21:33 – Pre-clinical patient safety courses
  • 22:12 – Traditional or Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships
  • 24:32 – Q&A

Remediation: Using Aquifer to Support Struggling Learners

Join us for an educator-led panel discussion webinar focused on how to use Aquifer cases to support learners who need more help in your curriculum.

In this session you’ll learn practical tips from colleagues across the country for diagnosing your learners’ struggles and using Aquifer cases to understand your learners’ needs, including how to use Aquifer cases to:

  • Provide additional content for knowledge gaps
  • Support clinical reasoning skills development
  • Support clinical skills development

Presenters:

  • Sherilyn Smith, MD – Aquifer Chief Academic Officer and Professor at University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Kindred Harland Shulgin, MS, PA – Clinical Assistant Professor, Pace University-Lenox Hill Hospital Physician Assistant Program – NYC Department of Physician Assistant Studies, College of Health Professions
  • Jensen Lewis, MSPAS, PA-C – Director of Didactic Curriculum, Physician Assistant Program, Case Western Reserve University
  • Elizabeth Stuart, MD, MSEd – Core Clerkship Director, Department of Pediatrics, Director of Clerkship Education, Stanford School of Medicine, Director – LPCH RAT/RATu Program

Table of Contents:

  • Introductions
  • Agenda: 2:34
  • Your students seems to be struggling, now what? 8:22
  • Aquifer Pedagogical Elements: Key Things to Know: 10:50
  • Kindred Harland Shulgin – Remediating Knowledge Gaps: 21:39
  • Elizabeth Stuart – Remediating Clinical Reasoning Skills: 27:13
  • Jensen Lewis – Using Case Analysis Tool for Remediation: 35:30
  • Sherilyn Smith – Using Breakpoints & Timed Note Writing: 40:30
  • Q&A: 44:45
  • Resources: 59:23

Best Practices for Teaching About High Value Care

Join our panel of medical educators and a medical student from the Aquifer High Value Care course board as they describe Aquifer’s freely-available cases and educator resources, and discuss practical tips and strategies to teach about high-value care across your curriculum.

Topics will include:

  • Overview of the Aquifer High Value Care Course
  • Review of ready-made ancillary educator resources
  • Examples from expert faculty on how they use the Aquifer cases for teaching high value care
  • Student perspective on learning about high value care using the cases

This session is open to anyone, and is ideal for educators looking to expand their coverage on high value care across the span of medical, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner training.

Presenters:

  • Jimmy Beck, MD, MED (Assistant Professor, University of Washington – Seattle Children’s Hospital)
  • Heather Harrell, MD, FACP (Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Medical Education, University of Florida)
  • Amit Pahwa, MD (Director, Internal Medicine Sub-internship, Associate Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University)
  • Haritha Pavuluri (Medical Student, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville)

Best Practices for Using Aquifer Geriatrics Across the Curriculum

Join our panel of medical educators as they discuss practical tips and strategies for using Aquifer Geriatrics. This session will explore the many ways to integrate these versatile, patient-centered cases and teaching tools across your curriculum.

Webinar Table of Contents:

  • Learning Goals: Starting at 1:40
  • About Aquifer: Starting at 2:57
  • Case Walkthrough: Starting at 7:47
  • Flipped Classroom Didactics: Dr. Ravi Ramaswamy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (starting at 18:42)
  • Virtual Geriatrics Course/Elective: Dr. Rachel Miller, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (starting at 26:30)
  • Closing Knowledge Gaps for Residents and Fellows: Dr. Andrea Schwartz, Harvard Medical School (starting at 34:22) and Dr. Amit Shah, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (starting at 44:24)
  • Teaching the Teachers: Dr. Andrea Schwartz, Harvard Medical School (starting at 34:22)
  • Clinical Context for Pre-Clinical Learners: Dr. Amit Shah, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (starting at 41:17)
  • Q&A: Starting at 47:00
  • Resource highlights: Starting at 56:07

Best Practices for Using Aquifer Radiology Across the Curriculum

Join us for practical tips and strategies to improve your students’ diagnostic imaging and clinical skills using the deep resources in Aquifer Radiology. Our panel of expert educators will explore the many ways to integrate these versatile, patient-centered cases and teaching tools across your curriculum.

Topics include:

  • Course overview & hidden gems
  • Advice from expert faculty on using Aquifer Radiology for:
  • Expanding diagnostic imaging coverage in any clerkship or course
  • Virtual radiology clerkships & electives Residency bootcamps
  • Residents as teachers

This session is ideal for radiology educators and faculty in any discipline looking to expand their coverage on diagnostic imaging.

Best Practices Table of Contents:

  • Goals for the webinar: Pauline Germaine, DO, Vice Chair for Research & Education, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (Starting at 1:05)
  • Radiology Course Overview: Jeff Hogg, MD, Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University School of Medicine (starting at 4:30)
  • Assessment Options: Jeff Hogg, MD, Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University School of Medicine (starting at 9:30)
  • Aquifer Case Library: Eileen Olszewski, Aquifer Director of Relationship Management (starting at 10:15)
  • Virtual Radiology Clerkships: Sravanthi Reddy, MD, Professor & Clerkship Director/Medical Student Advisor, Keck School of Medicine USC (starting at 17:15)
  • Interdisciplinary Integration: Melissa Manzer, MD, Associate Professor and Medical Student Radiology Program Coordinator, University of Nebraska COM (starting at 25:15)
  • Residency Bootcamp: Matt Miller, MD, Associate Residency Program Director, Allegheny Health Network (starting at 35:00)
  • New Cases & Teaching Tools: Jeff Hogg, MD, Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University School of Medicine (starting at 43:31)
  • Q&A: Starting at 45:45

Integrating Basic Science & Clinical Education: Why It’s Important & Tools to Support You

Join Leslie Fall, MD and Amy Wilson-Delfosse, PhD with guest presenters Esther Dasari Dale, PhD and Khiet Ngo, DO, MS, as they discuss the importance of integration of basic science and clinical education, the Aquifer Sciences initiative in collaboration with IAMSE (International Association of Medical Science Educators) to build a national basic science curriculum, and the upcoming Integrated Illness Scripts resources from Aquifer.

Don’t have time for the full webinar? 

Skip to the content you need–full agenda with presenters and time stamps are listed below:
Introductions
Agenda: 4:33
Barriers of Integration: 6:40
Building a national sciences curriculum: 8:50
Importance of Improving Cognitive Integration 16:37
Curriculum Database in use with Esther Dasari Dale, PhD: 24:33
Anatomy of an Integrated Illness Script: 30:53
Integrated Illness Scripts in Preclinical with Leslie Fall, MD: 37:42
Integrated Illness Scripts in Clinical Year with Amy Wilson-Delfosse, PhD: 39:24
Integrated Illness Scripts Across the Curriculum with Khiet Ngo, DO, MS: 42:56
Aquifer Tools for Cognitive Integration: 46:50
Q&A: 48:45
Resources: 57:00

Coaching for the Development of Master Adaptive Learners

The pace of the development of new biomedical knowledge and of changes in healthcare systems requires physicians and medical students to develop the ability to seamlessly adapt new information and concepts into their existing mental frameworks in order to become experts. Never has this dynamic been more in evidence than during the COVID-19 pandemic, in which new knowledge, skills, and processes of care have arisen at a furious rate. In order to develop into what the American Medical Association has termed Master Adaptive Learners, medical students, typically highly-motivated learners, will benefit from coaching from their clinical teachers to facilitate their self-regulated learning and help them develop the habits of mind required for making clinical decisions in modern practice.

In this workshop, we will present a schemata of the Master Adaptive Learner process and introduce novel tools to aid family physician faculty as they coach their students towards their development of cognitive mastery. The workshop will combine didactic presentation and practical application of the new coaching tools so that attendees will come away with useful skills to bring back to their home institutions. The presenters will encourage active discussion and group participation so as to benefit from the shared experience in the room in developing best practices for making use of the novel cognitive coaching framework and tools. You can find the handout from the workshop here.

Presented by:

  • Dave Anthony
  • Jason Chao
  • Sherilyn Smith
  • Leslie Fall

Aquifer for New Users: Best Practices for Using Cases to Support Virtual and In-Person Learning

Join our panel of medical educators and Aquifer staff experts as they review the pedagogical grounding of Aquifer cases, what’s included with your subscription, and practical tips for integrating Aquifer cases in your curriculum for optimum success. This session will review the best practice steps recommended to integrate these versatile, patient-centered cases and teaching tools across your curriculum.

Topics include:

  • Getting started
  • Reviewing a case
  • Choosing a curricular focus
  • Choosing cases and setting up custom courses
  • Integrating cases into courses
  • Orienting students and faculty
  • Tracking progress and assessment options

This session is ideal for deans, course directors, faculty and staff who are new users of Aquifer as well as anyone looking for a refresher or introductory review of using Aquifer cases.

Best Practices for Integrating Aquifer in Physician Assistant Programs

In this interactive session, we explored the best strategies and methods for integrating Aquifer cases into your Physician Assistant courses or curriculum. This session is designed for faculty and administrators who are new to Aquifer and those looking to improve how they are using the cases.

Main Session:

Breakout Session 1: Tips for using Aquifer cases in clinical education

Breakout Session 2: Tips for using Aquifer cases in didactic courses

Breakout Session 3: Finding the cases you want and building custom courses