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Strategies for Teaching Clinical Skills with Aquifer

Explore ways to use Aquifer to develop a range of clinical skills, from presenting patients to writing SOAP notes, managing handoffs to preparing for physical exams.

Our expert educators will share how they have successfully implemented Aquifer cases using a range of teaching methods to enhance communication skills and build confidence and clinical reasoning skills in students. This session will discuss a range of strategies to easily build out assignments and provide feedback centered around the shared knowledge of an Aquifer case.

This webinar is ideal for faculty, deans, program directors, and any medical or health professions staff who are looking for new ways to leverage Aquifer to support their students.

Table of Contents:

  • 0:00 – Introduction and logistical notes
  • 2:49 – How Aquifer helps
  • 8:54 – Using Aquifer cases for reinforcement of clinical reasoning skills
  • 17:11 – Using Aquifer for individualized remediation
  • 25:14 – Using Aquifer to standardize student experience
  • 32:13 – Enhancing SOAP note skills with Aquifer
  • 37:45 – Q&A

Best Practices & New Tools for Teaching What Every Student Needs to Know About Palliative Care

Join our interprofessional panel of expert clinical educators as they share tips and strategies in teaching the core principles of palliative care–and preview exciting new tools for faculty and students.

This presentation focuses on primary palliative care–the idea that all health professions students should develop the skills to improve outcomes and quality of life for seriously ill patients and their families.

Dr. Susan Merel will provide an overview of the Aquifer Palliative Care project, which developed a national standardized curriculum and virtual patient cases (coming in July 2022) that addresses critical gaps in palliative care learning across undergraduate medical and health professions education. She will also provide a preview of the new case content and structure, and discuss ways to integrate the cases during the Q&A session.

Our panel of experts will present examples from their experience that highlights strategies for teaching the concepts that every health professions student should know, with a focus on building skills and core competencies needed to provide patient-centered care.

Table of Contents: Short on time? Skip to the section you want to review.

  • 0:00 – Project Overview and Development
  • 12:08 – Principles in Action: Teaching Stories from Palliative Care Educators
  • 13:50 – Arts-based learning experiences to cultivate cultural humility
  • 21:22 – Interprofessional collaboration and care coordination between patients, families, healthcare teams, and systems
  • 30:10 – Alignment of care with the goals, values, and preferences of seriously ill patients based on assessed need
  • 38:37 – New Palliative Care case topics and structure
  • 42:41 – Q&A

Aquifer Calibrate: Formative Assessment for Efficient & Effective Clinical Learning

Find out how Aquifer Calibrate, our new formative assessment system, supports students and faculty with evidence-based approaches to build more efficient, effective learners.

This webinar will cover how Calibrate:

  • Fills critical gaps in the current assessment environment
  • Uses evidence-based approaches to drive self-directed learning and identify knowledge gaps
  • Provides checkpoints throughout the clerkship to monitor progress and leverage repetitive practice
  • Reports drive student learning and help faculty detect curricular gaps and inform feedback
  • Integrates into your clerkship and enhances your use of Aquifer cases

We also explore the Calibrate Pilot Program, the application process, and how to get involved.

This webinar is ideal for faculty, deans, clerkship or course directors, and program directors at any program that is considering or has confirmed a Curricular Partner subscription for the 2022-23 subscription year (July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023).

Table of Contents:

  • 0:00 – Welcome
  • 1:27 – Agenda
  • 3:27 – Aquifer Calibrate: Assessment for Learning
  • 6:58 – Going beyond right or wrong answers
  • 7:31 – Driving efficient self-directed learning
  • 8:09 – Informing meaningful feedback and coaching conversations
  • 8:46 – Aligning to national clerkship curriculum
  • 9:25 – Easy to adopt
  • 10:11 – What is Calibrate
  • 11:50 – When to give Calibrate assessments
  • 14:33 – Development of Calibrate
  • 17:52 – Cognitive competence
  • 19:27 – Our new metric: Clinical Learning Calibration
  • 20:31 – Reporting for students
  • 22:53 – Closing the competence gap
  • 22:23 – Inside a Calibrate powered clerkship
  • 24:18 – Reporting for faculty
  • 27:04 – What students are saying
  • 27:38 – Calibrate for coaching
  • 29:43 – How Calibrate supports the learning cycle
  • 32:46 – Support for coaching: Aquifer Peer Trainers
  • 34:11 – Integrating Calibrate into your clerkship or course
  • 38:49 – Easy Administration
  • 40:33 – Pilot Program
  • 44:51 – Q&A

Optimizing Aquifer for Flexible Curriculum Support: Aquifer’s Curricular Partner Program

Explore the power of a subscription to Aquifer’s Curricular Partner program. In addition to discounted access to the entire content library, Curricular Partners gain exclusive access to use our new, innovative tools like Aquifer Calibrate (our formative assessment system), cases on palliative care, and Integrated Illness Scripts.

Get to know the full potential of Aquifer’s cases across your curriculum as Dr. Sherilyn Smith shows quick and easy ways to fill gaps, find what you need, and get creative in elevating courses and engaging students.

Wondering what’s included? We’ll walk through the many benefits and support resources included in your 2022-23 Curricular Partner subscription, including a personal meeting with a curriculum specialist and peer consults with medical educators to help solve your challenges–plus Aquifer’s educator-to-educator faculty development resources and 24/7 support.

Table of Contents:

  • 0:00 – Welcome
  • 3:15 – Introduction to Aquifer
  • 4:15 – What is a Curricular Partner?
  • 4:48 – What’s included in your Curricular Partner Subscription
  • 9:00 – Power of the Content Library
  • 11:20 – Content Library Example: Pre-Clerkship Systems Based Course
  • 17:20 – Content Library Example: Core Clerkship
  • 20:40 – Content Library Example: Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
  • 24:45 – Content Library Example: Advanced Elective
  • 27:12 – Hidden Gems
  • 31:20 – Exclusive Access to New Products
  • 31:31 – Aquifer Calibrate
  • 34:20 – Aquifer Palliative Care Course
  • 36:45 – Aquifer Integrated Illness Scripts
  • 39:27 – Additional Resources
  • 44:00 – Q&A
  • 58:00 – Next Steps

Aquifer 101: Intro to Aquifer Cases & Tools for Clinical Learning

Thinking of subscribing to Aquifer? Join expert educators for an overview of our content, platform, and learning tools. You’ll learn about our non-profit mission, the pedagogical grounding of our cases, what’s included with an institutional subscription, and ways Aquifer can be used to support your students and faculty.

This session is ideal for deans, course directors, faculty, and staff who don’t currently subscribe but are considering using Aquifer.

Table of Contents:

  • 0:00 – Welcome
  • 1:24 – Introduction to Aquifer
  • 2:50 – Case Pedagogy
  • 4:56 – What’s Included in Your Aquifer Subscription
  • 6:37 – Assessment Options
  • 7:02 – Educator Resources
  • 8:27 – Teaching & Learning System Tour
  • 27:50 – Using Aquifer in Your Curriculum
  • 32:50 – Q&A Panel with Educators Using Aquifer

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

Teaching with Aquifer Integrated Illness Scripts: A Quickstart Guide

Get up to speed on Integrated Illness Scripts (IIS) and find out how easy it is to start using them in your course or program. Whether you’re a clerkship director, clinical faculty, or basic science educator, Integrated Illness Scripts can help your students make key connections between basic science and clinical knowledge, driving a deeper understanding and improving clinical decision-making skills.

This session will include:

  • Overview of the learning theory behind IIS
  • Anatomy of an Integrated Illness Script
  • Feature overview in our learning platform
  • Teaching strategies and easy ways to use IIS in your course or program
  • Q&A panel with our team of expert educators

This session will be valuable for anyone who is new to Integrated Illness Scripts or wants to explore ways to integrate them into a course or clerkship, including Deans or Program Directors Clinical or basic science faculty in any discipline Coordinators and staff

This presentation is approximately 30 minutes with a 20 minute Q&A session. This webinar is open to all but will be most useful for faculty with current access to Integrated Illness Scripts through other Aquifer Curricular Partner programs.

Table of Contents:

  • 0:00 – Welcome
  • 4:22 – Introduction to Integrated Illness Scripts
  • 8:28 – About Cognitive Integration
  • 12:45 – What are Integrated Illness Scripts?
  • 15:48 – Live Integrated Illness Script Tour in Aqueduct
  • 24:39 – Using Integrated Illness Scripts
  • 36:30 – Q&A

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

Intro to Aquifer for New Users

In this presentation, you’ll learn about the pedagogical grounding of Aquifer cases, what’s included with your subscription, and practical tips for integrating Aquifer cases to help your students get the most from our deep resources.
Topics will include:
  • Introduction to Aquifer
  • Case Pedagogy
  • Teaching & Learning Platform Tour
  • Best Practices for Using Aquifer
  • Tips from Students to Maximize Learning
  • Q&A Panel

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

Table of Contents:

  • 0:25 – Introduction
  • 1:25 – Learning Goals
  • 2:15 – About Aquifer
  • 6:00 – Getting Started
  • 6:36 – Aqueduct (Teaching and Learning Platform) Tour
  • 24:39 – Best Practices and Strategies
  • 28:40 – Tips from Students
  • 33:43 – Q&A

Teach to the Test: Assessing Key Clinical Decisions with an Online Exam

Virtual Presentation from AAIM’s 2021 annual conference by Valerie Lang, MD (University of Rochester), Kirk Bronander, MD (University of Nevada, Reno), Joseph Wayne, MD (Albany Medical College), Emily Haury, MD (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Jennifer Readlynn, MD (University of Rochester).

Written and updated by clerkship directors from around the country, the Clinical Decision-Making Exam (CDME) assesses key decisions for common internal medicine problems using the clinical decision-making approach. Educators from different schools will share how they incorporate the CDME into their assessment programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHsb7_TcWws

Engaging Your Faculty and Students with Aquifer

Students provide consistently high rankings for Aquifer at the end of each case as reported in our five-star rating feedback data, but how and when they are integrated into the curriculum can have a significant impact on their learning. Join this webinar panel discussion to learn practical tips from other educators for orienting faculty and students to Aquifer cases to maximize their integration into the curriculum and their effective use by your students.

Share Your Tips & Strategies

Join a Panel & Present to Your Peers

If you are currently using Aquifer and are interested in presenting as part of a webinar panel, please let us know.

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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

WISE-MD & WISE-OnCall – Implementing eLearning Tools to Enhance Your Curriculum

Join Dr. Thomas Riles, Associate Dean for Medical Education and Technology and the Frank C. Spencer Professor of Surgery at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, for this webinar overviewing best practices for effectively integrating WISE-MD and WISE-OnCall into surgical clinical experiences and readiness for residency/practice courses. Dr. Riles will be joined by other medical educators who will share practical tips from their experience using the courses.

In this interactive session you will:

  • Learn about WISE-MD and WISE-OnCall content and pedagogy and how they may be utilized in the health professions education continuum.
  • Join an educator-led breakout session of your choice:
    • Using WISE-MD in your Surgery Course
    • Using Wise-OnCall to help transition from student to resident

Main Session:

Breakout Session 1: How to use WISE-MD in Your Surgery Course:

Breakout Session 2: Using WISE-OnCall to Help Transition from Student to Residency/Practice:

Closing Remarks:

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

Using Aquifer in Flipped Classrooms

Join our educator panel as they discuss the practical tips and strategies they have employed for using Aquifer cases and resources in flipped classroom models.

Topics will include:

  • Overview of ready-to-use Aquifer classroom resources and activities for teaching in a flipped classroom model
  • Advice from expert faculty on how they are using these resources to deliver engaging learning opportunities

This session is open to anyone and is ideal for educators and faculty in any discipline looking to expand their coverage on flipped classrooms.

Don’t have time for the full webinar? 
Skip to the content you need–full agenda with presenters and time stamps are listed below:
Introduction: 00:20
Agenda for webinar: 2:10
About Aquifer: 4:45
Benefits of flipping the classroom: 7:40
Challenges to flipping the classroom: 8:35
Strategies to optimize flipping the classroom: 9:40
Aquifer resources: 11:20
Radiology workshops: 15:58 with Pauline Germaine, DO, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Pre-clinical in a PA program in the Aquifer pediatrics course: 25:50 with Sara Kraus, MHS, PA-C, School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University
Providing a clinical-like experience for 3rd and 4th year medical students: 35:05 with Andrew Parsons, MD, MPH, University of Virginia
Aquifer Active Learning Module: Fever: 45:05 with Sherilyn Smith, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine & Aquifer
Q&A: 47:10
Wrap up: 54:10

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

Lessons Learned from COVID: Best Practices for Using Aquifer in Virtual Courses

Join our educator panel as they discuss the practical tips and strategies they have employed for using Aquifer to manage learning disruptions due to COVID, and the lessons they have learned and will take forward.
Topics will include:
  • Advice from expert faculty on how they used Aquifer courses to manage learning disruptions
  • Lessons learned–what teaching practices using Aquifer cases they will bring forward and what they will leave behind
This session is open to anyone, and is ideal for existing subscribers looking for innovative ways to prepare for future learning disruptions.

Don’t have time for the full webinar?

Skip to the content you need–full agenda with presenters and time stamps are listed below:

Intro & Aquifer During the Pandemic: (start at the beginning)
Best Practices:
Tele-precepting: Cindy Lord, MHS PA-C, Case Western Reserve Physician Assistant Program (starting at 11:25)
Online Orientation: Dr. Traci Marquis-Eydman, Quinnipiac University (starting at 17:32)
Case-Based Learning Sessions: Dr. Kirstin Nackers, University of Wisconsin (starting at 24:35)
Oral & Written Presentation Skills: Dr. Ronda Mourad, Case Western Reserve University (starting at 32:20)
The Student Experience on Virtual Rotations: Georgia Vasilakis, West Virginia University School of Medicine (starting at 38:43)
Remediation: Dr. Sherilyn Smith, University of Washington (starting at 46:10)

Q&A: (starting at 48:05)

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

Best Practices for Integrating Aquifer in Medical Education

Learn about how to best incorporate Aquifer in to curricula for both allopathic and osteopathic medical education.

Presenters:

  • Sherilyn Smith, MD
  • Erik Langenau, DO, MS
  • Barbara Capozzi, DO
  • Leslie Fall, MD
  • Karen McDonough, MD
  • Mandi Sehgal, MD

Using Aquifer to Prepare Students to Return to Clinical Rotations

In this webinar we will overview best practices and practical tips from health professionals educators for using Aquifer to support ongoing challenges as learners return to clinical rotations.

Main Session:

Breakout Session 1: Clinical Skills Preparation

Breakout Session 2: Meaningful Clinical Encounters