Aquifer—a non-profit organization—is known and respected for developing trusted, award-winning virtual case-based courses for health professions education. Aquifer courses are evidence-based, peer-reviewed, and continuously updated by our academic consortium, to support best practices in clinical teaching and learning. Aquifer cases build clinical decision-making skills through realistic patient scenarios.

66% of US osteopathic medical schools are putting Aquifer’s trusted, rigorous clinical learning tools to work for their students. Aquifer courses are also used in 95% of US allopathic medical schools and a growing number of physician assistant, nursing, and international programs. 

Building Clinical Confidence & Competency

Osteopathic medical programs across the country are using Aquifer cases to:

  • Provide consistent curriculum coverage for all students—even across multiple teaching sites and campuses
  • Remediate students with structured feedback that ties to exam content
  • Supplement or enhance clinical experiences for core rotations and electives
  • Hone clinical decision-making skills prior to exams
  • Build electives and replace lectures for specialties
  • Support accreditation requirements by ensuring coverage of key learning objectives
  • Share trusted teaching and learning resources with faculty to increase efficiency

Our Network

Subscribers

Aquifer serves faculty and students in a total of 275 subscribing programs across a range of health professions. In addition to osteopathic programs and 95% of US allopathic medical schools, a growing number of physician assistant programs, nurse practitioner programs, and international medical schools are using Aquifer courses.   

Educators Consortium

The Aquifer Educators Consortium is made up of 70+ healthcare educators across disciplines who write, edit, and update Aquifer’s course content, in addition to providing strategic academic leadership.

National Collaborators

Every course Aquifer delivers is created in close collaboration with a leading national organization. We’re proud to partner with organizations like STFM, AAIM, AGS, COMSEP, and AUR to ensure that our content meets national standards.

Courses & Content

Each of our cases presents a virtual patient encounter—based clinical reasoning skills that are vital to providing quality patient care.

Aquifer’s discipline-specific courses—Aquifer Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics are our foundational courses, serving as key components of many programs’ clinical rotations.

Aquifer Geriatrics, Radiology, and Addiction include top-quality content which can be integrated into other courses or rotations to provide instruction on these critical topics, or used as individual elective courses. These courses bring our expert healthcare educators—and a wealth of resources—to you and your students.

Aquifer’s free courses—Aquifer Diagnostic Excellence, High Value Care, Culture in Health Care, Medical Home, and Oral Presentation Skills—offer case-based learning and skill-building exercises on key topics in healthcare education at no additional cost. Use the courses as individual capstone projects, or integrate cases with other content in a custom course to meet your needs.

WISE-MD (Surgery) provides an interactive enhancement to the surgical course. WISE-OnCall (Readiness for Practice) is a valuable tool for bridging the gap to practice. These courses are distributed by Aquifer on behalf of NYU School of Medicine.

Educator Guides & Resources

A wealth of Educator Guides, resources, and tools are available to help you integrate our cases into your curriculum or course and make the most of your Aquifer institutional subscription.

Educator Guides provide a quick reference guide for all cases, resources, and features included with associated Aquifer course. The Educator Guide is ideal for educators who are getting started using Aquifer, or experienced users who want to be sure they are taking advantage of Aquifer’s extensive resources and tools.

Additional resources and teaching tools include Flipped Classroom Workshops (Radiology), Active Learning Modulesand Case Analysis Tool (Pediatrics), and Real World Application Activities (High Value Care).

EDUCATOR GUIDES & RESOURCES

 

User Stories

Learn how our subscribers are using Aquifer courses to advance their students’ clinical learning at:

New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Learn More

Learn more about why Aquifer is the leading source of clinical learning tools—and explore our subscription options.

Feel free to contact us at any time with your questions.

Get Involved

Aquifer is excited to announce the creation of an Osteopathic Task Force. This group will bring the voice, interests, and experiences of osteopathic medical educators to Aquifer, and work to develop faculty development materials and teaching tools for osteopathic educators using Aquifer courses.

Osteopathic Task Force Details

Testimonial

“Aquifer cases simulate clinical reasoning, charging students with thinking like a doctor. Aquifer helps us provide consistency to our students. When we are reviewed for accreditation, we can say confidently that our students are gaining exposure to key conditions by completing Aquifer cases, even if they aren’t able to see those patients in the clinic. There’s really nothing else out there like this.”

Erik Langenau, DO, MS, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine