ScholarRx is excited to unveil a suite of powerful new features and enhancements designed to make your life easier. Our focus remains on empowering faculty and deans to create exceptional learning experiences while streamlining workflows and fostering collaboration.

Bricks Create Collaboration

You may be familiar with the Brick Create Collaboration feature (or the idea of it) that allows the owner of a Brick to grant editing permissions to others, which is a step beyond the multi-author function that provides read-only access. Bricks Collaboration enables collaborative editing, empowering multiple contributors to shape the content of a Brick sequentially.

Important Note: When a collaborative user is modifying a Brick, the Brick will be locked to avoid editing conflicts with other co-authors.

To add new users to a Brick and grant them editing permissions, please perform the following steps:

1. Open the Brick and click the credit line.

*The ‘Authors & Contributors’ modal will display and provide a method to search for a user by first/last name or email. Any person who has a ScholarRx account may be added as a collaborator; the school or organization can be different from the author’s school or organization*

2. Choose the desired user, select ” Can edit,” and click ” Save Changes.”

*Users granted editing access as Brick Collaborators will be notified via email, including a link to the Brick, informing them of their collaborator status. After being added as an editor, the Brick will display on the user’s ‘My Bricks’ page under a newly created ‘Collaborative Bricks’ tab. 

Messages You May See When Collaborating

Currently Editing

When another editor edits the Brick, the Brick is locked, and the following message is displayed. This is intentional to prevent editing conflicts.

Read Only Mode

When another editor is editing, the Brick can still be opened in ‘read-only’ mode, but the user will see this message:

Inactivity Warning

When a collaborator has a Brick open but hasn’t recorded any activity in the last ten minutes, the ‘Inactivity Warning’ displays. Don’t worry – their work will be automatically saved!

Lock Removal

After an additional five minutes of inactivity, all work is saved, and the Brick is closed, which removes the ‘lock’ on the Brick and allows another editor to access it.

Publishing a Collaborative Brick

Anyone added as an editor can publish the Brick and choose to list it publicly. It will be associated with the school/organization of the Brick owner and added to their ‘My Organization’ page if the Brick is listed. It will not be added to the ‘My Organization’ page of other editors, but it will be added to their ‘My Bricks’ page.

AI Integration: Empowering Educators, Enhancing Learning

ScholarRx has integrated AI into Bricks Create. We hope you find the AI useful as you continue to create active learning experiences inside and outside your classrooms.

Question & Flash Card Generation

The Basic Blocks menu includes a ‘Generate Content’ section when the Bricks Create beta features are enabled. Beneath this section, two options utilize AI to quickly create questions or flash cards based on the content immediately above the insertion point. 

To generate a question or a flash card with AI, please perform the following steps:

1. Place your cursor where the question or flash card will be inserted
2. Open the basic block menu and select the ‘Question’ or ‘Flash Card’ option. It will then be inserted.

You can modify, build upon, or delete any of this content before publishing your Brick.

Learning Objectives & Summary

AI can also be used to generate Learning Objectives and Summary points. 

To create Learning Objectives or Summary points, please perform the following steps:

1. Place your cursor in either the Learning Objectives or Summary sections & click the ‘Generate with AI’ option.

2. The AI assistant creates Learning Objectives or Summary points based on the content of the Brick. If you’d like to, you can add additional information to guide the assistant.

3. Click ‘Generate.’ When complete, you can replace what is already there, add to it, or dismiss what was created by AI. All content can be edited once it has been added to the Brick.

When creating a new Brick using either of these options, you must add a minimum of five paragraphs before you can see the AI tool in the Learning Objectives and Summary sections.

Feature Enhancements: Streamlining the ScholarRx Experience

While we’re always trying to create new products to make your teaching more effortless, we also prioritize enhancing and updating existing features to enrich your experience. Let’s take a closer look at those feature enhancements. 

Enabling Beta Features

When you activate the Beta Features toggle, AI integration will be activated.

Bricks Create Tools

To access the Bricks Create tool set, please take the following steps:

1. Click the ‘Add Item’ button or hit enter at the end of a vignette, and the ‘+’ icon will display.
2. Click on the icon or type ‘/’ to make the ‘Basic Blocks’ menu display.
3. Scroll through the menu displayed to find your desired vignette type.

Update to Active Learning Question Options

Active learning question types can now be found in the basic block menu.

Removal of the All Collections Menu Option

The ‘All Collections’ menu option has been removed from Bricks Create. You may access the Bricks in ‘All Collections’ from the Brick Exchange. 

We hope you find these feature enhancements helpful!

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The Power of Bricks Create

Our Bricks Create platform offers educators a user-friendly and versatile toolset to build interactive and informative learning modules. With the Brick Builder Grant, you’ll gain access to:

• Funding: Up to 50 grants of $500 will be awarded to support your curriculum development efforts.
• Platform Access: Grant recipients will receive full access to Rx Bricks Create, allowing you to craft engaging learning experiences.
• Expert Support: Benefit from ScholarRx training and resources to guide you through the platform and best practices.

Share Your Expertise, Amplify Learning

The Brick Builder Grant encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing. Developed curricula can be shared with a global medical education community, expanding the impact of your work.

Ready to Apply?

Don’t miss this opportunity to revolutionize medical education. Visit our landing page to learn more about the program, application criteria, and deadline (July 15th, 2024).

Let’s build the future of medical education together!

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ScholarRx, a leading provider of digital learning tools for medical schools globally, is excited to announce a new collaboration with the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine (KNN), a movement focused on transforming the profession of medicine by integrating a framework of character, caring, practical wisdom, and flourishing. This collaboration will generate engaging, open-access educational modules that empower medical educators and students to go beyond technical skills and explore deeper issues of meaning, purpose, and belonging within medicine.

The KNN will use ScholarRx’s innovative Bricks Create platform to author and share modules on topics related to the KNN Framework for Flourishing, grounded in interdisciplinary scholarship and practical applications. With a focus on learner-centered, pedagogically sound content, Bricks Create will enable modular, customizable content with active learning elements.

“This partnership is a testament to our shared commitment to cultivating nurturing, well-rounded physicians through the power of open educational resources,” said Tao Le, MD, CEO of ScholarRx. “With the Kern National Network, we are helping forge a path that empowers medical educators and students to explore the dimensions of purpose and belonging with medicine.”

“We are honored to collaborate with ScholarRx to address important topics that are often not included in formal medical school curricula today, yet are deeply meaningful to learners, professionals, and leaders in academic medicine,” said Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD, MCW Eminent Scholar, Senior Vice President for Academic Partnerships, Professor of Population Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Founding Director of the KNN.

“Together, we will support faculty and future physicians in reimagining medical training and practice so that it nurtures the passion, sense of connection, and continuous growth that originally inspired these individuals to join the field,” said Kimara Ellefson, MBA, National Director of Partnerships and Strategy for the KNN.

Ultimately, the collaboration will catalyze ScholarRx and the KNN’s efforts to provide accessible, sustainable medical education that positively influences the culture of medicine and advances flourishing – for leaders, faculty, staff, and learners, as well as their patients and communities.

About ScholarRx

ScholarRx is a mission-based organization of passionate medical educators, designers, and technologists dedicated to building a healthier world through accessible, sustainable medical education. ScholarRx offers a revolutionary, low-cost, multi-competency curriculum system featuring interconnectable “learning Bricks” powered by the groundbreaking Rx Bricks Create authoring tool, helping make this the world’s first sharable health science curriculum platform.

About the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine

The Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine (KNN) is a movement focused on integrating four foundational elements within the profession of medicine: character, caring, practical wisdom, and flourishing. The KNN advances this work by connecting and convening stakeholders across the health ecosystem, catalyzing transformative initiatives, and influencing policy and systems change toward healthier, positive organizational cultures.

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ScholarRx is proud to announce a new partnership with the National Association of Medical Spanish (NAMS), which works to improve the quality of care for Spanish-speaking patients. 

The partnership will focus on the collaboration and development of open access, sharable Bricks in areas related to medical Spanish, designed to be published and shared across the world. ScholarRx will be providing grant support to fund the collaborative development and implementation efforts.

Along with helping to drive and develop the medical Spanish curriculum, NAMS members will receive access to these materials through the Rx Bricks digital learning system developed by ScholarRx, including the Bricks Create authoring platform. 

According to Dr. Pilar Ortega, Founder and President of NAMS, “Our team is very excited about the opportunity to partner with ScholarRx on increasing accessible high-quality educational resources for communicating with the Hispanic/Latinx community. Many students and doctors have some Spanish skills they would like to use in patient care but may lack the resources to use or enhance those skills professionally. Improving how we teach clinicians to effectively use their skills to communicate with linguistically diverse patient populations is key to advancing health equity through education, and NAMS is proud to play a pioneering role through medical Spanish content.” 

“NAMS is playing a critical role in helping achieve global health equity by focusing on the improvement of patient-physician communication through medical Spanish,” said Dr. Tao Le, founder, and CEO of ScholarRx. “We are pleased to support their important work in preparing health professionals so that they can provide linguistically and culturally appropriate care to the Spanish-speaking patients they serve.” 

About Scholar Rx

ScholarRx is a mission-based organization of passionate medical educators, designers, and technologists dedicated to building a healthier world through accessible, sustainable medical education. ScholarRx offers a revolutionary, low-cost, multi-competency curriculum system featuring interconnectable “learning bricks,” powered by the groundbreaking Rx Bricks Create authoring tool, helping make this the world’s first sharable health science curriculum platform.

About NAMS

NAMS is a non-profit interdisciplinary group of highly qualified medical and language professionals who work together to improve health equity, patient safety, clinician communication skills, and quality of care for Spanish-speaking students. Our goal is to create a standardized evidence-based approach to teaching medical Spanish as well as promoting and assessing bilingualism among students and clinicians in the United States.  

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Carolina MED EXCEL will provide an intensive one-year clinical, academic, and professional development curriculum with conditional acceptance to UNC School of Medicine upon successful completion of clearly established milestones. Once fulfilled, these students are guaranteed a spot in the medical school in the next year.

The program uses a flipped-classroom model centered on modified problem-based learning, which has been shown to benefit all students, particularly underrepresented minorities. Foundational medical curriculum will come from Rx Bricks, the innovative digital curriculum developed by ScholarRx and optimized with proven scientific learning principles.

Students will enter their first year of medical school well-prepared as leaders and role models. The curriculum of MED EXCEL leading to entry into the School of Medicine is designed to promote trust, belonging and inclusivity through the formation of deep relationships in a small-group, case-based learning community.

In the U.S., the population growth among minorities continues to outpace the proportion of minorities in the medical field. Transformed education and curriculum like MED EXCEL is needed to create adaptable, innovative, and diverse leaders devoted to the all-encompassing goal of respect, inclusion, equity, and justice. ScholarRx’s mission-driven organization provides a potent partnership to fulfill MED EXCEL’s goals.

About UNC School of Medicine
Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability.

About ScholarRx
ScholarRx is a mission-driven education organization currently serving over 150,000 medical students and physician learners annually. ScholarRx has developed a revolutionary componentized, multi-competency curricular platform that empowers medical schools and their faculty to rapidly develop high-quality education experiences, even in resource-poor environments. The groundbreaking Bricks Create tool makes it easy for schools and instructors to develop engaging educational content.

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