Aquifer Educator Connection Podcast

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Aquifer Educator Connection Podcast

The Aquifer Educator Connection Podcast brings you insights and practical tips about how expert health professions educators are using Aquifer’s virtual patient cases and resources to enrich learning. Join Dr. Lynne Robins as she talks to expert educators about how they incorporate Aquifer’s award winning e-Learning platform into their curricula to maximize student learning, provide tips and insights into getting the most out of the resources available to educators and students, and learn about best practices in using Aquifer.

  1. 27/03/2023

    COMSEP and Aquifer: Collaborating for Excellence in Clinical Education

    Guests:  Melissa Held, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Curriculum Lead, Aquifer Pediatrics.  Kirstin Nackers, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Pediatric Undergraduate Medical Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Senior Director and Editor-in-chief of Aquifer’s Pediatrics Board. This episode discusses the longstanding and synergistic relationship between Aquifer and COMSEP. Educators from both groups have worked continuously to integrate their resources and ensure Aquifer Pediatrics comprehensively covers the COMSEP curriculum as it evolves. We’ll share details of COMSEP’s recent curriculum mapping project as an example of COMSEP and Aquifer's processes to create trustworthy curricula and teaching resources. Additional Resources: MS3 Curriculum Action Toolkit Link to 2005 Article on CLIPP Development Full Show Notes

    14 min

  2. 21/02/2023

    Implementing Coaching in Clinical Settings

    Guest: Sherilyn Smith, MD, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine and International Coaching Federation Certified Coach Description:​ In this episode, Sherilyn Smith returns to our podcast to discuss how to implement coaching in clinical settings. We revisit our discussion about the value of coaching to develop master adaptive learners and then spend time focusing on the specifics of preparing for and conducting coaching conversations with learners, with advice on how to use Aquifer Calibrate, our new formative assessment system. Additional Resources: Previous episode with Dr. Smith on coaching Aquifer Coaching Script Full show notes can be found here.

    23 min

  3. 29/11/2022

    Debriefing Aquifer Cases: Templates for Dynamic Discussions

    Guest: Kelsey Dougherty, MMSc, PA-C is Assistant Professor, Pediatrics – Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program (CHA/PA) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Description:​ In this episode, Kelsey Dougherty outlines the benefits of using a debriefing template to achieve program learning objectives by ensuring that all small group faculty highlight key concepts in class discussions. She emphasizes that the template is highly adaptable for use in all health professions educational programs and that it allows for creativity within a standardized approach. You can download the template and follow along as Kelsey and Lynne walk through the template and discuss how to approach the use of each component part.   Additional Resources: Debriefing Template Full show notes can be found here.

    16 min

  4. 02/11/2022

    Practicing Trauma-Informed Care with Aquifer

    Guests: Sheela Raja, PhD, Director, College of Dentistry Resilience Center and Associate Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. and Shairi Turner, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer at Crisis Text Line, New York, NY. Drs. Raja and Turner, both experts in Trauma Informed Care, collaborated with interprofessional experts across the nation to create Aquifer’s cases on Trauma Informed Care. Host: Lynne Robins, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA.  Description:​ In this episode, Drs. Raja and Turner discuss the prevalence and impact of trauma on both patients and healthcare practitioners and the importance of acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to practice universal trauma precautions in healthcare. They describe how they collaborated to create Aquifer’s Trauma-Informed Care cases and lay out the kinds of trauma to which all practitioners must be attuned. Additionally, they provide strategies and suggestions for adding TIC to health professions courses and curricula. Full show notes can be found here.

    23 min

  5. 12/10/2022

    Adopting Aquifer to Teach Orphaned Topics

    Guest: Karen Scaglione, DNP, Assistant Teaching Professor, St. Louis University Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing; Member, Aquifer Nurse Practitioner Task Force. Description:​ In this episode Karen Scaglione, DNP highlights the value of using Aquifer to fill curricular gaps without adding faculty time. She describes how she incorporated Aquifer Radiology into her curriculum as self-directed learning to build students’ knowledge and skills in diagnostic imaging and prepare them for licensure and practice. Full show notes can be found here.

    11 min

  6. 08/08/2022

    The Future of Formative Assessment

    Guest: Leslie Fall, MD, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aquifer and Clinical Professor, Division of Medical Education, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. In this Thought Leader podcast, Leslie Fall shares her inspiration and vision for Calibrate, Aquifer’s new formative assessment system. She reflects, “as educators, we need to own the fact that most of our assessments have been to drive a grade or drive a score and that we have trained our learners to think about assessment as something they need to do well on for grade.” Calibrate aims to shift learners’ focus from doing well on exams to developing the fundamental cognitive skills of caring for patients. This assessment approach promises to be empowering in that it gives learners information they can use to understand what they know and what they don’t know as well as guidance about what to do next to grow as clinicians. It is transformative in that it provides learners a template for a lifelong process of approaching patient care decision-making based on content and calibration. Full show notes can be found here.

    18 min

  7. 11/07/2022

    Engaging Didactics: Bringing Medical Education to Life

    Guest: Omer Awan, MD, MPH, CII, Associate Professor of Radiology and Associate Vice Chair of Education at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Teaching and Learning Lead for Aquifer Radiology. Host: Lynne Robins, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA. Description:​ In this episode, Dr. Omer Awan provides encouragement, motivation, and guidance for mastering the skills of preparing and delivering compelling educational presentations to improve student learning retention and transfer. He also offers tips for using Aquifer resources to increase peer-to-peer interaction and learning during instructional sessions.  Full show notes can be found here.

    15 min

  8. 07/06/2022

    What Students are Saying: Tips to Maximize Learning

    In this episode, Drs. Bierman and Vasilakis share their insights into the student experience of using Aquifer and provide tips and guidance for faculty to improve engagement and help students maximize the learning with Aquifer cases. Full show notes are available here.

    14 min
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The Aquifer Educator Connection Podcast brings you insights and practical tips about how expert health professions educators are using Aquifer’s virtual patient cases and resources to enrich learning. Join Dr. Lynne Robins as she talks to expert educators about how they incorporate Aquifer’s award winning e-Learning platform into their curricula to maximize student learning, provide tips and insights into getting the most out of the resources available to educators and students, and learn about best practices in using Aquifer.

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