This grant opportunity will provide funding to AMEE members to develop a curriculum using the ScholarRx Brick Authoring Platform. The curriculum must be publicly available so that educators worldwide can use it.

This grant is an excellent opportunity for AMEE members and educators to share their expertise and create innovative educational resources.

Grant Details

• Applications open: June 12, 2024
• Deadline for initial applications: September 27, 2024
• Funding: Up to £4,000 (GBP) to support curriculum development using ScholarRx modules (Rx Bricks).
• Eligibility: AMEE members (preference given to those with AMEE ESME course completion). Teams from any health professions discipline are welcome, with application from inter-institutional teams encouraged. Student inclusion is encouraged, but teams cannot be student-only.

Purpose

This grant supports developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative and shareable health profession education curricula. Projects must utilize the ScholarRx Brick Authoring Platform and result in publicly available educational resources on the AMEE and ScholarRx websites.

How to Apply

For more information on how to apply, please visit the AMEE website: https://amee.org/amee-scholarrx-grant/

We look forward to seeing the great curriculum developed through this grant program!

Don’t Wait to Apply

Are you an AMEE member with expertise in health professions education? We encourage you to apply for this grant and help us create innovative educational resources for the next generation of healthcare professionals.

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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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Dr. Baranoski brings a deep portfolio of qualifications, starting with her MD from Drexel University and an MSc in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health. Recognized for her expertise in infectious diseases and HIV medicine, Dr. Baranoski recently served as an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Dr. Baranoski is a dedicated medical educator with experience in curriculum development and accreditation. As the Associate Dean of the Phase One curriculum for the MD Program at Drexel, she helped shape the learning experiences for hundreds of students. Her passion for teaching and preparing future physicians was part of what attracted her to this new role.

Dr. Baranoski is also a practicing infectious diseases physician with clinical expertise in caring for people living with HIV. She has training in epidemiology and experience in clinical and translational research with a history of support from an NIH K12 grant and various other NIH-funded studies. Her research has focused on the intersection of HIV infection and aging and cervical and anal cancer screening for women with HIV.

Dr. Tao Le said, “We are delighted to have Dr. Amy Baranoski join ScholarRx. She is a multi-award winning medical educator who deeply understands student learning needs.”

About ScholarRx: ScholarRx is a mission-driven organization serving over 150,000 medical students and physician learners annually. ScholarRx recently launched the Brick Exchange, the first global shared curriculum exchange for health professionals, designed to empower faculty and medical schools to rapidly build and deploy high-quality education experiences, even in resource-constrained environments.

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“Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.” – The World Health Organization

A New Rx Brick Collection from MeSAGE

The Medical Student Alliance for Global Education, or MeSAGE, has released its newest collection of Rx Bricks, which focuses on Planetary Health. This set of free, open-access digital learning modules from ScholarRx covers the interplay between human health and the environment, aiming to equip current and future healthcare professionals with everything they need to effectively address the impact of a shifting climate.

Why Planetary Health?

The climate continues to impact our lives, leading the World Health Organization to say, “It threatens the essential ingredients of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health.”

According to WHO, “Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress alone. The direct damage costs to health are estimated to be between US $2-4 billion per year by 2030. Areas with weak health infrastructure – mostly in developing countries – will be the least able to cope without assistance to prepare and respond.”

We see the effects of climate change more and more each year. From warming, rising oceans to hotter temperatures, increased drought, and more severe storms, it’s nearly impossible to escape them. As these effects lead to species losses, less food, poverty, displacement, and compounding health risks, we must prepare health professionals for the myriad of questions and issues they will see.

These Bricks provide an in-depth look into how planetary health will affect the medical profession. Climate change’s impacts on different sectors of society are interrelated, with drastic results and harmful consequences hovering on the horizon. This interrelation will influence many doctors’ care decisions, and having a solid foundational understanding of planetary health is vital.

Created under the oversight of lead editor and planetary health expert Michelle McLean, Ph.D., these peer-reviewed Bricks are quick and easy to deploy in your curriculum or courses. Topics in the Planetary Health collection include:

• Air Pollution
• Climate Change and Health
• Environmental Justice
• Food and Water Security
• Mental Health and the Environment
• Severe Weather Events

And so much more. Please learn more about the collection here.

What is MeSAGE?

MeSAGE aims to empower student organizations with the tools and expertise to build medical education content that often falls outside the traditional curriculum and make that content freely available to any student, school, or institution worldwide.

MeSAGE is the largest student-driven curriculum alliance on the planet, composed of student organizations representing over 1.3 million medical students in over 130 countries, from partners including:

• AMSA: The American Medical Student Association
• AMWA: The American Medical Women’s Association
• APSA: American Physician Scientsists’ Association
• AMSA-International: Asian Medical Students’ Association
• EMSA: The European Medical Students’ Association
• FAMSA: Federation of African Medical Students’ Associations
• IFMSA: International Federation of Medical Students Associations
• Phi Delta Epsilon: The International Medical Fraternity
• SNMA: The Student National Medical Association
• SNO: Student Network Organization
• SOMA: The Student Osteopathic Medical Association

MeSAGE utilizes the groundbreaking digital learning platform Rx Bricks to create interactive educational modules that focus on critical topics identified during a global needs assessment, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, digital health, planetary health, students as educators, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Together, we aim to leverage the expertise and passion of medical students to develop engaging and open medical education content that educators worldwide can use.

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To ring in March, we have released two updated Brick editions – Hematology and Cardiovascular. We consistently update our Bricks to stay up-to-date and accurate. Still, we also conduct more extensive revisions of the collections to improve your students’ learning experience.

You can access the first editions, toggle seamlessly between both, or move forward with the new versions. Check out the Conversion Guides below for more information.

Switch Easily Between Brick Versions

You can just use Editions 1 and 2 with little effort. Click the down arrow and move the collections with ease!

Why were these Bricks updated?

Students and faculty from across the world reach out with feedback on ScholarRx’s Bricks, and when you do, we listen. We aim for our Bricks to be evergreen, and while we always strive for accuracy, we make revisions when there are ways in which we can improve our approach and content. We are incredibly thankful to all who have helped us achieve our mission of sustainable medical education by enhancing our instructional design.

Is anything else new?

We continued beyond updates, of course. You will also see the following:

• New and improved illustrations
• Fewer mnemonics
• More standardized Bricks with formatting you will find throughout our platform
• Even more high-yield content
• Please learn more by reading our Conversion Guides:
  • Cardiovascular Conversion Guide
  • Hematology Conversion Guide
    • PDF
    • Word

We hope you and your students put these updated Bricks to good use. Together, we’re on the path toward sustainable, engaging medical education.

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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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ScholarRx MERIC aims to promote US and international educational scholarship and innovation through the ScholarRx/USMLE-Rx platform, which serves more than 50,000 student and physician learners each year. The MERIC small grants program will support health sciences education investigators seeking to collaborate with ScholarRx to test educational innovations and address questions ranging from educational methods and pedagogy to curricular development and student assessment. ScholarRx expects to fund approximately 2-3 projects with budgets from $5,000 to $20,000 in this call.

A letter of intent (LOI) for this call must be received by 11:59 PM EST on December 17, 2021. Selected investigators will be notified in early January 2022 and invited to submit a full proposal due by February 28, 2022. Awards will be announced April 29, 2022.

For more information or to discuss a project, please contact us at meric@scholarrx.com.

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The goal of the IAMSE-ScholarRx Curriculum Development Grant is to provide funding which supports the development, implementation, and scholarly evaluation of shareable health sciences education curricula. Awardees will be given access to Rx Bricks Create, a groundbreaking authoring tool from ScholarRx, so that they can produce interactive digital learning modules (called Bricks). These shareable Bricks will be made available on the ScholarRx website, where students, instructors, and organizations from around the world will be able to access them at no cost.

Grant awardees will receive direct funding up to $5,000, along with approximately $50,000 in in-kind support, which includes:

• Rx Bricks access for up to 200 students for one year
• Investigator access to the ScholarRx Bricks Create Platform and Rx Bricks Collections
• Investigator training and support for ScholarRx Brick development
• $1,500 travel award for Principal Investigator (PI) to present the work at the Annual IAMSE Meeting

Dr. Neil Osheroff, president of IAMSE, said, “The IAMSE-ScholarRx Curriculum Development Grant is an outstanding opportunity for our members who are interested in curricular development to join in collaborative work with another institution to generate novel teaching materials. In addition to this new program, we very much value our partnership with ScholarRx and their support of our Association. They are generous in their support of student-centered initiatives, including the Student Educational Research Grant program and the New Educator and Scholars Training workshop, and we look forward to welcoming the Medical Student Alliance for Global Education (MeSAGE) meeting to the annual IAMSE conference.”

Dr. Tao Le, founder and CEO of ScholarRx, comments, “We have long valued our partnership with IAMSE and its mission to prepare and support health science educators from around the world. We believe this grant will be instrumental in helping awardees develop med-ed content that can be shared with students and educators across the globe.”

All current IAMSE members are eligible to submit a grant proposal.  Visit https://www.iamse.org/iamse-grants/ to learn more about the application and submission process.

To obtain access to Rx Bricks Create, visit: https://scholarrx.com/iamse-grant/

The letter of intent is due November 14, 2021.

About ScholarRx: ScholarRx is a mission-driven 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 medical student organizations to rapidly develop high-quality education experiences, even in resource-constrained environments.

About IAMSE: IAMSE is a nonprofit professional development society organized and directed by health professions educators whose goals include promoting excellence and innovation in teaching, student assessment, program evaluation, instructional technology, human simulation, and learner-centered education.

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